DM on older Windows Operating Systems

[MasterWuuf]

A customer asked me to fix up a laptop for his younger son.
He did not want the laptop to have internet access.

I found a laptop with a Millenium OS, which is just what the man seems to want.

He doesn't care if there are any games on this laptop but I tried DM out on it.
It works fine but won't save games.

Anything I can do, or does anyone know?

Thanks ahead of time, MW

[Gambit37]

Run it through DOSBOX? http://www.dosbox.com/

[Phoenix]

Where did you install the game? Try installing it on "C:\DM".

[beowuuf]

Are you sure it's not saving the games? It writes the file instantly without a confirmation in the PC version.

Also, are you running it inside a zip file? It won't write files in there, even if its actually playing the files from in there.

[MasterWuuf]

I have the entire DM set of files saved in a DM folder. I've been simply copying the whole thing to other computers, going to the start ICON (sword),
then making a shortcut to that exe file on the desktop.

As I said, the game seems to be working fine, other than the save-game feature.

[beowuuf]

Is the folder read only?

[MasterWuuf]

Is the folder read only?

Yes. The other option is 'hidden' if that helps.

[beowuuf]

If the folder is set to read only it won't be able to create the save file. If you can change the permissions then it should work perfectly, I hope!

[Gambit37]

Just a quick note: old versions of Windows always show folders as read-only even when they are not, so that may not be the solution...

[MasterWuuf]

If the folder is set to read only it won't be able to create the save file. If you can change the permissions then it should work perfectly, I hope!

For future reference, the laptop is running Windows Millenium.

I had to go to the exe file and remove the 'read only' option. After that, the 'game save' feature worked fine.

Thanks. I hope the person who uses this laptop gets interested in the DM game on it.

[beowuuf]

"Windows ME" always looks like an an exasperated expletive to me. Glad you solved it!

[MasterWuuf]

"Windows ME" always looks like an an exasperated expletive to me. Glad you solved it!

First time I had anything to do with that OS. I must say it didn't look too bad.

Anyone remember Windows 3.1? Yipes! A young person would not believe that was really a Windows environment.

[beowuuf]

Yup, with its stark GUI and acctual filing cabinet icons

[Ameena]

Haha, yeah, our first PC had Windows 3.11 - mind you, the comp we had immediately before that was the Atari, so we were already used to a desktop even if this new one wasn't bright green .

[beowuuf]

Or Amiga workbench in my case, with all the coloured icons - so exciting

http://opencores.org/usercontent,img,1292873136


Edit: Actually, less colourful than I remember. I htink I created custom icons where I painted them all in

[Sophia]

Oh, wow, that's old!

Most of my memories of the Amiga involve the grey 2.0+ workbench.
That one at least allowed 8 color icons so you could make it (slightly) pretty.

[beowuuf]

To be fair I used 1.3, so maybe they were already a little better. Not sure!

[Gambit37]

My first Amiga experience was Workbench 1.2, which I believe had the same blue/orange/black icons. Great fun messing with the icon editor back in the day... that day being 25 years ago! Seems like yesterday

[beowuuf]

My first Amiga was the CDTV, so just after Aminga 500 but before Aminga600 with workbench 2.0 (I think)

[oh_brother]

Almost as pretty as the Atari desktop:

http://itwadi.com/files/images/gui/16-atarigem.gif

But as far as Windows, I cannot remember what the first one was. Maybe 3.1. Although looking back, since Windows 95 the cosmetics have not changed that radically.

[beowuuf]

Don't forget the four black bombs of the atari when it crashed - those were stark and evil!

[Ameena]

Yeah, I remember the bombs! That's why we used to say it had "bombed" or "bombed out" when a prog crashed. Used that term for many years afterwards, but these days I just tend to use the term "crash". Wasn't always just four bombs, either - sometimes you got a whole line of them going across the screen.

[Gambit37]

Bombs, pah! What you want is a nice red Guru Meditation.

I think we may have gone a little off topic.

[MasterWuuf]

Bombs, pah! What you want is a nice red Guru Meditation.

I think we may have gone a little off topic.

Ha, ha, ha. Yep, I think we have ventured far into the 'off topic' dungeons. I was already laughing when the 'bombs' of the Atari came up, just after thinking,
"Hey, this seems to have gotten a little off topic."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFJ60FfSYAA

Atari...discover how far you can go.

Brought back some great memories.

P.S. Thanks again for the help with the DM gamesave difficulty on the ME operating system.