Old AD&D Games

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » August 22, 2003, 6:20 pm

Not talking about the gold box games here. More the Eye of the Beholder era ones. EotB2 was one of my favorite games. There were also first person games, Menzoberranzen and a Ravenloft one that were pimp, but my computer back then was too slow to play them.

What I'm wondering is, how would they perform on a system of today? I know a lot of old games just go too damned fast to play. Also, anyone know if these have been released as free games? Friend told me about how a lot of old games have just been made public domain.

Janx · Post by **Janx** » August 23, 2003, 12:34 am

Problem would be getting them to run in windows XP correctly considering they were dos games.

Stone Prophet was the 2nd ravenloft game using the engine I believe. Never got into the first one.

I still know where my Menzoberanzan CD is too ^^.

By the time they were released they SHOULD have code in that limits there speed depending on CPU.

Funniest thing I ever did was run Mechwarrior 1 on a p2...ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » August 23, 2003, 12:38 pm

I have a couple games like that. They just won't work on a win2k machine or better. I am considering putting win95 on my second drive so I can play X-Com and that old Magic the Gathering game.

Pilsburry · Post by **Pilsburry** » August 23, 2003, 2:12 pm

Yeah I had a cool strategy game called masters of magic, but it was designed for DOS, you can run it in a DOS window but it crashes pretty often...like every 15 mins.

Kwonryu DragonFist · Post by **Kwonryu DragonFist** » August 23, 2003, 4:35 pm

I loved that ol game Masters of Magic.

They should make a new version of it for the new comps and WinXp

a_guide · Post by **a_guide** » August 23, 2003, 5:10 pm

I bought this at Target for 9 bucks, which has: Eye of the Beholder I - Eye of the Beholder II - Eye of the Beholder III - Hillsfar - Gateway to the Savage Frontier - Treasures of the Savage Frontier - Pool Of Radiance - Curse of the Azure Bonds - Secret of the Silver Blades - Pools of Darkness - Dungeon Hack - Menzoberranzan - Blood & Magic - And a 2 Chapter Baldur's Gate Demo. I've only had time to put Menzoberranzan on but it ran fine.

Tegellan · Post by **Tegellan** » August 23, 2003, 5:18 pm

I used to play Pool of radiance, champions of krynn and deathknights of krynn on my c64 and amiga. God those were the good old days.

Toss up the files for download a_guide!

Kwonryu DragonFist · Post by **Kwonryu DragonFist** » August 23, 2003, 9:04 pm

I used to play Phantasy 2 on the C64 and then Phantasy III on the Amiga!

Rocked!

Back in the day that is!

Truant · Post by **Truant** » August 24, 2003, 3:07 am

a_guide wrote:I bought this at Target for 9 bucks, which has: Eye of the Beholder I - Eye of the Beholder II - Eye of the Beholder III - Hillsfar - Gateway to the Savage Frontier - Treasures of the Savage Frontier - Pool Of Radiance - Curse of the Azure Bonds - Secret of the Silver Blades - Pools of Darkness - Dungeon Hack - Menzoberranzan - Blood & Magic - And a 2 Chapter Baldur's Gate Demo. I've only had time to put Menzoberranzan on but it ran fine.

omg must get this. thank yous.

a_guide · Post by **a_guide** » August 24, 2003, 4:54 am

Tegellan wrote:I used to play Pool of radiance, champions of krynn and deathknights of krynn on my c64 and amiga. God those were the good old days.

Toss up the files for download a_guide!

Hmmm I am not really sure how to do this

Plus Im slightly drunk atm so I am really not capable of much thought. I'll look into it again tomorrow when I can think straigt

*hugs* - a_guide

Janx · Post by **Janx** » August 24, 2003, 8:18 am

If you liked Masters of Magic try Age of Wonders (And Age of Wonders:Shadow Magic).

Pilsburry · Post by **Pilsburry** » August 24, 2003, 11:37 am

Yeah I was debating getting age of wonders shadow magic...

Maybe I'll go snag a copy today.

a_guide · Post by **a_guide** » August 24, 2003, 3:17 pm

On second thought I don't think it would be such a good idea to put this up here. Mainly because you can go buy it really cheap. Plus, the fact that you can still buy it means that someone somewhere would get their panties in a twist because I didnt make you go buy it. And lastly, I have no fucking clue how to acheive this

*hugs* - a_guide

Morgrym · Post by **Morgrym** » August 25, 2003, 8:44 am

I used to love to play Pool of Radiance and the sequals that spawned off of it. I picked up that exact same box set a couple of years ago and sat down for hours of old school fun. Everything installed and ran just fine although MEGA fast. I remember fighting in those games and turns took forever. Now, they are over in a flash and many times you are left wondering just what happened.

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » August 27, 2003, 9:28 am

You could play them on the system, but you would be better off just picking up an old P1 450 or something and trhowing in some old parts and load in Windows 3.11 and run them through DOS like they were meant to be run. I think the hardware would be just fine.

Deward · Post by **Deward** » August 27, 2003, 11:18 am

You can also get a program called slomo. It slows the processor down so you can run those ancient apps. I discovered it at a company I worked for during y2k and in many cases it was the only way to get some of their ancient apps running. I think it is free and the executable was slomo.exe. I may have a copy somewhere if someone wants it.

Truant · Post by **Truant** » August 27, 2003, 3:43 pm

slomo isn't really effective anymore...unless the pay version is better.

It has zero effect above a certain processor level.

Deward · Post by **Deward** » August 28, 2003, 10:43 am

I haven't used it in at least 2 years so i will take your word for it. You can pick up a small 400 MHZ machine off ebay for pretty cheap though. Or go to your local university surplus department. My university has old computers for sale all the time, usually for less than a hundred bucks.

Sabek · Post by **Sabek** » August 28, 2003, 11:09 am

For folks who liked the goldbox "Pool of Radiance" game, someone did an incredible port to neverwinter nights. You can download the module and replay the game with the nice NWN engine.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » October 23, 2003, 9:26 pm

http://retrogames.intranet.hu/games0.htm

A lot of the above can be found here. I only tried EotB just to see if they were in English or not

It seemed to run at a normal speed.

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » October 28, 2003, 5:52 am

I bought this at Target for 9 bucks, which has: Eye of the Beholder I - Eye of the Beholder II - Eye of the Beholder III - Hillsfar - Gateway to the Savage Frontier - Treasures of the Savage Frontier - Pool Of Radiance - Curse of the Azure Bonds - Secret of the Silver Blades - Pools of Darkness - Dungeon Hack - Menzoberranzan - Blood & Magic - And a 2 Chapter Baldur's Gate Demo. I've only had time to put Menzoberranzan on but it ran fine.

And it runs fine on XP

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » October 28, 2003, 5:30 pm

damn, i payed 6$ for that baulders gate demo