Someplace, maybe even this list (my brain is that shot
from a cold),
mentioned an issue of PC Gamer that had a run down on the 50 best classic
computer games, AND how to get them working etc. Anybody know which issue
that was? A little
groups.google.com searching shows it likely isn't
either
the the top 50 lists in the last couple years,
but I seem to remember
it as
> recent anyway.
They do this annually, although a lot of the
classic games are starting to
drop off the list. I'll have to dig through my stack of magazines.
Shouldn't be a big deal to a CC-Member ... just setup a system as
described on the package and inset the disks :))
Minimum requirements are the easy part. The hard part is how new of a
system breaks the game, with a minefield extending from W3.1 on a P90 to
W98 on a PII 233 MMX. Support for games often drops suddenly, so that
fairly dopey advances can be problems. Also locating updates from dead
companies can be a task too.
When a game comes out there may be literally hundreds of decent web pages
with tips and information. A year or so later half a dead links, and many
pages that do exist are stale (not updated) or hollow (file links are 404s).
Kind of strange, with the really old games the problem is finding a working
copy, and with the middle aged games its getting the copy to work.