Emulators
Hiya,
I recently downloaded an old game I used to play in the 80's called Nato Commander, it's abandonware.
Now I used to run it on the Commodore 64, but there is a version on the Atari ST as well. I also downloaded 3 different emulators for the C64 and one for the ST(e).
Problem is it wont run!!!....
Ideas anyone?
BTW I only just found it that the game was written by a certain Sid Meier ... now I wonder whatever happened to him?
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Re: Emulators
Such emulators usually use old methods of memory allocation, the basic problem may be that they are DOS-based programs that are notorious for being highly incompatible with Windows XP. You may try running the emulator(s) through a DOS emulator such as DosBox. Drive a google search, you'll easily come up with DosBox. (It's not something I fully tried, by the way). Maybe that helps, just an idea..
Sid Meier?.. Oh well he is rightfully enjoying what he earned from the best strategy game around : Civ4. Thanks to Lord for his genius presence in game market (What a prayer..)
Re: Emulators
This thread is skirting dangerously close to piracy territory. No links to illegal ROMs etc., please.
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Re: Emulators
No. I'd never do that.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
Re: Emulators
Emulators are always called legal. However, it's been a good warning from the start about linking to ROMs.
Re: Emulators
I tried a few C64 Emulators. I recall the one I got working, and working good, was CCS. That was on a Win98 machine though, and I had to click a few icons. It wasn't a straight .exe afaik.Originally Posted by InsaneApache
Perhaps you need to run it in win98 compatibility mode?
Emulators are free, software to be used not always. Sometimes an Emulator requires a ROM and those are usually not free either.
I'm not sure about the status for C64. I recall all was free (or just very condoned?), but some time ago there was going to be some sort of C64 revival with a new device? I'm totally in the dark now.
Edit:
Browsing a site now (no link): Ghostbusters by Activision, Power Drift by Activision. That's for C64 games. Is that the same Activision we know today? Edit2: Answer, yes. Same way of writing it on the cover.
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Re: Emulators
It don't half take you back, doesn't it!..
I got 'Way of the Exploding Fist' C64 version to run on XP, and to think I got 9th dan on that!!! (20 years ago)
I shall keep trying. Thanks guys.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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