Playing Sam + Max and Day of the Tentacle on a P4?

[Mad Gear]

Is there a file that will allow you to play these old classics on a Pentium4.
Can't seem to get them to run.
Help, before the shakes start again!!

[csuzw]

It'll be the operating system not the processor that causes them not to run.

One option would be to use a program like DosBox - It will emulate Dos and you can run the games from there.

There may also be patches available to get them running on WinXP or whatever.

I'm sure it will be possible in some way - Day of the Tentacle (and other LucasArts GAs) have been ported to loads of platforms recently.

[ascender]

I might be wrong, but I'm sure Lucasarts re-released them recently, having the updates to run on XP built-in? So hopefully there will be a patch for the originals - have you tried google?

It was weird being able to play Monkey Island on a Pocket PC recently. Amazing how times have changed over the last 8 years or so.

[csuzw]

Just occurred to me: check on Underdogs (can't remember exact url - search for it and retro games and you should find it) - they often have links/instructions for this kinda stuff.

[MD]

http://www.the-underdogs.org/guidedos.php#c

VDMS is a good program as it will get a lot of DOS games to work properly.

[jezzace]

Scummvm is what you need to run most of the old lucasarts games. Also check out this thread

[Moodmon]

The re-release versions run on XP. I've tried Sam & Max, Full Throttle and The Dig and they all work. Bargain price too.

[Mad Gear]

Cheers fellas, happy times are here again!!!!!

[McPastry]

The rereleases DO work on XP, but some of the music seems to be missing. However, when run via ScummVM (ace prog) the tunes magically reappear.