On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Pedro Quaresma wrote:
> Personally, I believe I still have to find any other RPG that doesn't work
> correctly on my machine, most even on DOS boxes in Win98...
If you can figure out what causes The Two Towers to glitch out in VGA mode
(this happened on all three of the modern machines I tried), let me know
(it would make me happier, heh). I actually spent a LOT (several hours,
easily) of time trying to figure this one out, as I had managed to figure
out how to get nearly everything else to play properly (that means at the
best graphics mode, with both music and digitized sound, and at a playable
speed). This was one of the very few I could not figure out (and it's the
only adventure or RPG).
Slowing down the computer (either by hardware, or software) did not work;
booting to DOS 6.2 did not work;
stripping device drivers in DOS 6.2 did not work;
you cannot select MCGA as a graphics mode (this will fix Future Wars,
which has a similar problem in "VGA" mode, though it's the same as
"MCGA" mode as far as I can see except for the graphical glitches);
switching to another modern computer entirely did not work;
there's no way to do a device-driver swap (which fixes some Sierra games);
writing the designer of the game directly got me no response, either.
Think of it as a challenge. :)
-- Stephen
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