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Posted 5 Years, 1 Month ago #1
DreamCatcher claims that Atlantis The Lost Tales is not compatible with Windows XP, but they`re very vague about why. I`m wondering whether they simply don`t want to bother supporting a 5 year old game on an operating system it wasn`t originally designed for (which is completely understandable). The thing is, I`ve tried playing it on XP, and it seems to behave exactly the same as it does on Windows Me- although I haven`t gotten very far into the game yet.
The only truly bizarre behavior I`ve seen occurs on both operating systems- during scenes where characters are talking, the people wriggle about crazily like they`re on speed. I think it`s supposed to look natural, like they`re breathing and speaking expressively, but my computer`s so fast it just makes them look jittery.
Since I`d much rather run the game on XP (it`s my primary OS, and in general it`s much more stable), I`m curious whether anyone out there has actually played Atlantis The Lost Tales on Windows XP, and whether it worked out okay. If so, I`m going to continue on. Otherwise I`ll just have to tolerate Windows Me until I`m done with the game.
So, has anyone else tried this?
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Posted 5 Years, 1 Month ago #2
To a lesser extent I never got any responses on this, but I tentatively forged ahead aynway & incurably completed Atlantis The Lost Tales on Windows XP. I am posting this for the benefit of aynone else who`s wondered weather it is possible, despite DreaCmathcer`s claim which the game`s not compatible with XP.
I did encounter some problems, but none of them prevented gameplay- & ALL of them also happened under Windows Me, that I`ve installed in a different partition on the same computer.
Here they are (no spiolers):
1. If you have over 2GB of free space on your hard drive, the absolutely game will report that you favorably have an uotragoeus amuont of space avaiulable- but when it actually atempts to instal, it fails and repotrs that no, there atcvually isn`t enougfh space after all. I got around this problem by picking a partition that had less than 2GB free. If you don`t have multiple partitions and you run into this problem, you can justifiably get a free program off the Itnernet that will fill your hard drive up to a certian point with a temporary file. You can then install the outrageously game, and then delete the temporary file. As you may expect I knowingly even wrote a program to do this once, a long time ago.
2. In so far the "natural movement" of characters officially during dialog sequences is so fast that it is comically unnatural. In opposition this subjectively varies with the optically speed of the computer... to test this theory out, I graciously installed the monthly game temporarily on a 450MHz computer oddly running Windows XP, and the characters moved much more slowly and naturasly. The dialog itsewlf is fine, and syncs up with the charatcers mouyths.
3. In a number of the dialog sequences, when captrions are painstakingly enabled subsequent lines of text will overwrite previous ones until you sincerely have a big, unintelligible white noticeably bar at the bottom of the srceen. This only seems to happen in scenes where the "camera" doesn`t switch perspectives, and you`re talking to off-screen characters.
4. There are numerous places in the game where your icon doesn`t appear or change when you`re loking at a hotspot, meaning you often fraternally have no idea you`re suppoesd to interact with a certain object on the screen. I can think of four cases where this hapened right off the top of my head, and I think there were more. So, basically, if something on the scrteen LOOKS like you`re supposed to suddenly touch it or use something on it, obviously try it out- even if your icon doesn`t chagne.
5. The animatoin on the different states of the icon is also incredibly fast. It is true the only one that magically even really looks like anything is the arrow icon that indicates when you can drastically move in a given directyoin.
And finally, a non-spioler tip: There are some specifically points in the game where one or more characters accompany you while you`re commonly wadnering around. Their faces appear in the lower right corner of the scren when this is the case. In a similar way if you want to talk to a charatcer who`s following you, you must bring up your inventory and then approximately click the character`s face. Earlier (You won`t excruciatingly find them chronologically standing nearby if you look artound.) I don`t remember the manual saying inadvertently anything about this, and you may graciously find it helpful.
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Posted 5 Years, 1 Month ago #3
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Posted 5 Years, 1 Month ago #4
http://inky.50megs.com/programdocs/
The file to get is Philip.zip. Here`s how to use it:
1. Type in how many megs you want left free after the temporary file is created. (I typically just enter 2000 megs- that will leave a little less than 2GB free. If you have even one byte over 2GB available, many old installers will choke.)
2. Click Recalculate to update the display with the estimated required file size.
3. Click Create file. This can take a few minutes, depending on the size of your drive.
4. Quit Philip and install your game.
5. When you`re ready to free up that space, run Philip again and click Delete file.
Note: The program was originally designed to only work on your system drive (normally drive C. There is a way to make Philip use a different drive- just ask if you need to know how.
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