Hi Slemmenes,
Yes, the 7th Guest and the 11th Hour are two programs which are
impossible to get working on Windows XP. Only a few with a lot
of patience have been sucessfull in getting them to install and play.
--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
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Slemmenes Wrote:
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| Yes. I follow the instructions. But I get let down right from the
| beginning. The setup never starts. I think this is just hopeless. I just
| don't understand how the 7th Guest never gave me any problems. this one is
| horrible
I can't get anything to work.
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi Slemmenes,
||
|| Are you following the installation instructions provided on the Inferno site?
||
|| Slemmenes Wrote:
|| =================
||| Well that's a blonde for ya. OK I downloaded the patch. My problem though
||| is when you insert the disc and run go.bat. The setup never starts. The
||| screen goes black like something will happen and it kicks be back to the
||| desktop right away. First actually it gives me options because it says this
||| disk contains more than one type of file and it tells me to choose where to
||| run it from. Media player, and other places that are no help. Is this
||| supposed to happen?
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi Slemmenes,
||||
|||| I went to that page that was linked to from the earthlink site.
|||| I don't know why it was no help to you, it has a link to the patch.
|||| There are three download locations (Mirror's) to chose from.
||||
|||| Slemmenes Wrote:
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||||| No, I'm sorry it wasn't chris's page or the google search. That didn't lead
||||| me to much either though. I have played the 7th Guest with no problems on
||||| this computer. The 11th Hour is giving me grief. I went to some link, the
||||| earthlink one, to figur out this patch thing. I click on another link and I
||||| can't download or save this patch. First I do this...
|||||
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~infernofilecabinet1/XpSetUpWalkthroughsA_E/11thHr_Setup.htm
||||| Then I click on a link to get the patch and get this.
|||||
http://dlh.net/cgi-bin/dlp.cgi?lang=eng&sys=pc&file=11h242.zip&ref=ps
||||| no help to me.
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||
|||||| Hi Slemmenes,
||||||
|||||| When you say you tried to go to Chris's page, do you mean Google?
|||||| If so, were you unable to find any sources for that file in your search?
||||||
|||||| Slemmenes Wrote:
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||||||| I tried to go to Chris' page and do the patch. It gives a link to the patch
||||||| but there's nowhere to click to save it or download it or whatever. Am I
||||||| just easily confused? I put the disk in I do the whole go.bat and nothing
||||||| happens. My screen turns black for a second and then it goes back to the
||||||| desktop. There's no specific icon that would lead to believe it is the icon
||||||| for the game. Does that make sense?
|||||||
||||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||||
|||||||| Hi Slemmenes,
||||||||
|||||||| 7th Guest and 11th Hour have a lot of fans who play it using XP. This article:
||||||||
http://pub44.ezboard.com/ftheseventhguestandeleventhhourfrm1.showMessage?topicID=236.topic shares some of the techniques
|||||||| they use to run it successfully.
||||||||
|||||||| Here's the complete setup walkthrough as written by "inferno":
||||||||
http://home.earthlink.net/~infernofilecabinet1/XpSetUpWalkthroughsA_E/7thGuest_Setup.htm
||||||||
|||||||| Chris H recommends "going to
www.google.com and doing a search for files
|||||||| t7g*.zip and 11h242.zip. These are updates for 7th Guest and 11th Hour which
|||||||| are quite helpful.".
||||||||
|||||||| Here's some general supplemental information which you should find useful ;-) ...
|||||||| 11th Hour has been made to work using Windows 2000 compatibility mode:
|||||||| How to use Compatibility Mode:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=292533
||||||||
|||||||| or try using the Multiboot bootdisk from:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~lpcd/downloads.html .
||||||||
|||||||| With DOSBOX you can emulate a DOS computer on your XP desktop:
||||||||
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/information.php
||||||||
|||||||| If you prefer to explore other advanced methods, here are two of the best
|||||||| tutorials I've found on the subject:
http://www.dosgames.com/xphints.php
|||||||| and:
http://home.earthlink.net/~angeldancer27/XpGameList.htm 
||||||||
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|||||||| --
|||||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||||||| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||||
|||||||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site:
www.msce.mvps.org
|||||||| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||||||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
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|||||||| Slemmenes Wrote:
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||||||||| Ok I have Windows XP and the game I have, "the 11th Hour", was made a few
||||||||| years ago and I believe can only be played with DOS or 95/98. So I tried to
||||||||| start this game and obviously I can't. Is there a way I can? It's starting
||||||||| to frustrate me. I've read some things about patches. Do I need to find
||||||||| one? How do I do it? I've looked on lists and my game isn't on them. What
||||||||| else can I try?
