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i just completed "Beneth A Steel Sky" and fancy a bit more old-skool-geek adventure. i'm looking for the first alone in the dark game but can't find it for donload anywhere. is it not freeware yet?

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"Alone in the dark"?..i believe the game is abandonware,and the file is not big either

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thanks very much for the link pasta power.

i didn't know this game had a few sequels, looks like i'll be checking those out if this first one is any good....

In order to get the sound/music to work, you must run in DOS or some kinda DOS box.

It's a great game. Can't really compete with today's horror game in term of graphic or sound. But should be enjoyable for a while.

if your running xp,chances are it wont work anyway

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works fine on my copy of xp... but damn, i didn't realise it was such an old game. and i thought it was a point a click anyway...

i think i'm gonna try one of the sequels where the people don't look like triangles....

PASTA POWER wrote:Alone in the Dark is by infogrames. Infogrames is apart of the idsa.

Alone in the Dark was made by Interplay, who have never been a member of the ESA or the now defunct IDSA.

PASTA POWER wrote:Abandonware is a term created and defined by gamers probably to justify piracy. Its definition varies. In the eyes of the law it means squat. Theft is theft.

Very few game companies actually give a shit about thier old unprofitable games. Obviously its still illegal breach of copywrite, but if the holders themselves dont give enough of a shit to actually persue it or get the ESA to do it for them then thers no point going on about it as its basically fair game.

game actually works on xp?..thats a complete suprise

Use VDM Sound: http://ntvdm.cjb.net/

were wrote:game actually works on xp?..thats a complete suprise

DOS games tend to work a bloody lot better in XP then early Win32 stuff, back compatability for DirectX 1 - 5 and Win95 Display APIs is almost nonexistant.

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really yak?..i tried to run some dos games before on xp in the past and it didnt work for me at all..wish i remember what they are, but i seem to cant run some "private eye" dos game on CD that is almost 9 years old

ah,its not important,sinc ethe game is in ontario now

seems strange to me how i could get this dinosaur game working and not jedi knight which is 1995 or 1996?

PASTA POWER wrote:I am not sure but you might find that the french version is more common than english since infogrames might be French.

They are French, which is one of the main reasons that I hate the fact that it was them who got thier filthy froggy mits on Atari Corp's assets when Hasbro sold them off.

Download the game and you'll see it is by infogrames. Interplay is not mentioned.

Interplay must of published it then, they still have it on thier support site and I definatly remember thier name being on it at the time.

were wrote:really yak?..i tried to run some dos games before on xp in the past and it didnt work for me at all

Milage may vary, but i've had definatly had more gyp from Windows 95 stuff then DOS.

Its always a good idea to keep hold of an older machine if you horde all your PC games, I had to hook up the old P2-350 to play the Windows CD version of Tie Fighter recently because it refused to accept that DirectX was actually installed on my XP games box.

Zep wrote:seems strange to me how i could get this dinosaur game working and not jedi knight which is 1995 or 1996?

1997, I had it running in XP with no hassle a while ago. My 2200+ is a bloody long way from the P-133 with 32 megs of RAM that I played it on orginally.

Alone in the Dark 2 is pretty good. I remember playing it up until you took control of a helpless child stuck on a ghost ship and then I got bored.

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