Spiffy tool for new games

[Nightcaste]

This site has a thing that will analyze your system and tell you if a game will run on it.

www.srtest.com

[Puhutes78]

Thanks a lot! That site works really well :)

[sp4mm]

A tool like this for old games would be infinitely more useful.

King's quest, Wolfenstein 3D, Civilization, Iceman, X-Wing, Tie-Fighter, Colonization, Dungeon Master, Lands of Lore, TES: Arena, Daggerfall, Castles, Stronghold, Rampart, Stunts, UFO Enemy Unknown, Terror from the Deep, Warcraft, Fantasy General, Dune 2, Alone in the dark, Sim City 2000, Caesar, Jagged Alliance, Transport Tycoon, Heroes of Might and Magic, King's Bounty, Master of Magic, Lords of the Realm, Syndicate, Aces of the Pacific, Life and Death, Sim Tower, Pizza Tycoon, THX... I know I'm forgetting a bunch too. One must fall, Mortal Kombat, Flashback, Blood, Day of the Tenticle, Police Quest, The Larry games, Monkey Island, Little big adventure...


Yeah I'll finish my list somewhere else. I need to go download some abandonware. I hope it runs on my XP X2!

[Talamr]

thats a mighty fine list you got there.

[Nightcaste]

Most of those games are going to have problems with windows XP simply because it's not based in MS-DOS. I know you can get patches and tweaks that will let some of them work, but most of them, I think you're kind of SOL. My solution to this was to build a second PC with older hardware (leftovers from recent upgrades, etc.) and set it up as a Windows 98SE machine.

[sp4mm]

Actually, DOSBox (google it) usually does the trick.

[Nightcaste]

I've used DOSbox before and it doesn't always do the trick, it's also required a lot of fiddling to get just about anything to work...

[moldycheerios]

Excellent website!
I will be using it very often :) .