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New Poll: Old Games 24 Nov, 2002, 01:03 / 22 comments

By Webmonkey


A running theme these days on sites like Mojo and The SCUMM Bar seems to be the ever-present problem of those old LucasArts adventures breaking and just totally sucking on modern computers with new-fangled cutting-edge operating systems like... anything made past 1997.

Thankfully, our polls are always meaningless and sometimes aren't even fun! That's why this time around, we're asking you how you get your old games working on your new(ish) computer. Do you use the venerable ScummVM package, or do you prefer the LEC Quick & Easy approach? Or, maybe you're just blessed with a computer that magically runs them all without any modification. Finally, maybe you're just confused out of your mind and hate me.* Regardless, you should vote and discuss.

As for the last poll, "You have a spare LucasArts game development team at your disposal. Would you rather see them..." ended with 37% of you demanding sequel sequel sequel, while 63% (aka "the correct people") said they'd rather see an original game that was actually original, and wasn't "original with a '2' at the end."

*Those of you who are actually clueless about getting your old LucasArts games up and running on your shiny new computer should check out the links earlier in this post and this lovely article about it at the SCUMM Bar.
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22 Comments

  • Cal on 05 Dec, 2002, 18:15…
    I cant get Q&E to launch Indy Last Crusade (256 Color version), also i have the spanish version of THE DIG, i cant get it to work either, any thoughts?
  • Bozeke on 30 Nov, 2002, 10:33…
    Remember Alf?
  • benjoyce on 25 Nov, 2002, 07:35…
    It works well on my XP machine!
  • Remi O on 24 Nov, 2002, 17:31…
    Q&E with VDMSound owns all.
  • 8t88 on 24 Nov, 2002, 14:48…
    I have every LEC adv. game availiable. All werk except sound on MI1. Pfft!
    (MI2's my favourite anyway!)

    I use both SCUMMVM and LEC Q&E to run the games on WinXP.

    Hats go off to Ben. Good werk, my man!
  • scabb on 24 Nov, 2002, 14:33…
    ScummVM is win, although most of my LEC games work on Win2000 anyway.

    The only one that doesn't being Grim Fandango :(
  • Jake on 24 Nov, 2002, 19:10…
    Where's GrimeVM?!?
  • Metallus on 24 Nov, 2002, 14:15…
    ScummVM plus "Quick + Easy" frontend by bgbennyboy is my winning combo. Woo.
  • jimmycracker on 24 Nov, 2002, 12:19…
    Everything works perfectly on my Mac without any modifications. Ah, Macs rule.
  • Jake on 24 Nov, 2002, 12:51…
    You'll need (well, you'll really really badly want) ScummVM if you ever upgrade to MacOS X though.
  • Sloth on 24 Nov, 2002, 10:13…
    Strangely enough, every LEC game works fine on my Windows 98, except for Full Throttle. I can't explain it, but they all work like a charm.
  • Gabez on 24 Nov, 2002, 10:21…
    I hate you. :P
  • Huz on 24 Nov, 2002, 07:33…
    Where's the "au naturel with-DOS-sound-drivers-deliberately-broken-and-butchered" option? :P

    Also, I think VDMSound falls under LEC Quick & Easy. Or perhaps not.
  • Dalixam on 24 Nov, 2002, 07:22…
    VDMSound does the job for me. Why isn't that an option in the poll?
  • Jake on 24 Nov, 2002, 11:41…
    File under: LEC Q&E
  • Marek on 24 Nov, 2002, 06:33…
    I keep an old computer for playing old games...
  • Niklaus on 24 Nov, 2002, 12:34…
    386 20Mhz 4Mo/RAM RULEZ !
  • JBRAA on 24 Nov, 2002, 05:31…
    Go win98 systembootdisk! CD, mouse *and* sound support. You can't take screenshots into your psp or ps though. (Well perhaps you can, there might be a DOS screengrabber program, but it's not worth it to search for it at download.com) Go Win2000 Alt+Enter window-mode!
  • ED on 24 Nov, 2002, 03:59…
    Go Quick and Easy! I use it cos I can't get ScummVM to work at all and Q&E does.
  • Gabez on 24 Nov, 2002, 03:18…
    Computers are insane.
  • JBRAA on 27 Nov, 2002, 12:53…
    you brain fell out
  • Andi Wan on 24 Nov, 2002, 03:10…
    Monkey Island 2 works on my PC, but the sound is a bit screwed up.