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Expert: Meg Darling - 12/24/2004


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I know you don't mention compatibility issues as an area of expertise, but you say you have played many adventure games so I thought I would try you anyway.

Is it generally true that any adventure, or other pc game that came out before the advent of Windows XP will not play on XP, such as dos-based games, or those that specify Windows 95 or 98 on the box?

Thanks

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Hi Les,

Not necessarily, however your PC may be "too good" for some of the old games.

Microsoft has a great XP Game Advisor tool to check the compatibility of your PC with most games.  Copy & paste the link below...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/games/gameadvisor/default.mspx

It's usually accurate (not always 100% unfortunately).  XP also comes with a compatibility mode that can help you play many older games.  The Microsoft web-site can also teach you about that.  Just do a search on it.

Happy Holidays!
Meg  

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I can help with most Adventure games from small hints to complete walkthroughs. I`ve finished/beat all the popular games including Myst, Riven, and the Gabriel Knight series without help. New games are added to my list often. **Sorry, I am not a computer expert, so technical advice is rarely given. Please visit the manufacturer`s web-site for tech support.**

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Here are some of the games I've played: the 7th Guest, 11th Hour, Adventure at the Chateau d'Or, Amber: Journey's Beyond, Albert Hitchcok's Final Cut, Amerzone, Arthur's Knights: Tales of Chivalry, Arthur's Knights II: the Secret of Merlin, Atlantis: the Lost Tales, Aura: Fate of the Ages, Beyond Atlantis I and II, Beyond Time, Black Dahlia, Black Mirror, Blackstone Chronicles, Blade Runner, Broken Sword: the Sleeping Dragon, Byzantine: the Betrayal, the Cameron Files: Pharoah's Curse, the Cameron Files: Secret at Loch Ness, Clue Chronicles: Fatal Illusion, Cold Case Files; the Crystal Key, CSI, CSI: Dark Motives, CSI Miami, Dark Fall I and II, Dracula Resurrection, Dracula: the Last Sanctuary, Egypt 1156 BC: Tomb of the Pharaoh, Forever Worlds, the Forgotten... It Begins, Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster, Gabriel Knight I, II, and III, In Cold Blood, Inherent Evil: the Haunted Hotel, Jack the Ripper, Jazz & Faust, the Journeyman Project III: Legacy of Time, Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, Law & Order I, II, III, & IV, Lightbringer (AKA Cydonia), Lighthouse, the Longest Journey I and II (Dreamfall), Martian Gothic Unification, Messenger, Missing since January (aka In Memoriam), Monkey Island I, II, III and IV, Mummy: Tomb of the Pharaoh, Messenger, Myst, Myst III: Exile, Myst IV Revelation, Mysterious Journey: Schizm, the Mystery of the Nautilus, Nancy Drew series; Necronomicon, Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy, Omega Stone (ROTS2), Phantasmagoria I and II, Post Mortem, Quest for Karma (AKA Karma: Curse of the 12 Caves), Reah, realMyst, Return to Zork, Riddle of the Sphinx, Ring, Riven: the Sequel to Myst, Safecracker, Sanitarium, Seven (aka Faust), Shivers I and II, Still Life, Syberia I & II, Timelapse, Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, Traitor's Gate, the X-Files, Zork Grand Inquisitor, and Zork Nemesis.

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