Old Win 95 Game

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I have, or rather my father has an old Win 95 game (Congo descent into zinj)
he really loved but never got to finished because our win 95 computer died;
we have over 5 computers in our house now, all on one version of xp or
another, and none will play it. It says it sucessfully installs but then
freezes on a black screen when you try to run it.
I have tried running the installation exe in compatibility, as well as the
program exe itself; I've tried running it from dos; I've tried copying the
whole cd contents onto the hard drive and making everything compatible and
then running the installer from the hard drive- Same Result. What Can I Do?
Always happy to live and learn,
LaraPhoenix
 
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I have, or rather my father has an old Win 95 game (Congo descent
into zinj) he really loved but never got to finished because our win
95 computer died; we have over 5 computers in our house now, all on
one version of xp or another, and none will play it. It says it
sucessfully installs but then freezes on a black screen when you try
to run it.
I have tried running the installation exe in compatibility, as well
as the program exe itself; I've tried running it from dos; I've tried
copying the whole cd contents onto the hard drive and making
everything compatible and then running the installer from the hard
drive- Same Result. What Can I Do? Always happy to live and learn,
LaraPhoenix
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List of stuff to try - in order...

Right click the .EXE file in the program files after installing it, select
properties, select compatability, and set it to be 95 comp. I realize you
said you did so but could you triple check and make sure that it was for 95?
You might want to go ahead and tweak it - there's a LOT that CAN be done
with this but that's a lot of overwhelming information so we'll skip that
for now.

Getting Older Games to Run on Windows XP:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/games/expert/durham_og.mspx&e=9797

(That's a good article)

Finally there's a small learning curve but if you were able to find here you
can configure it (and then make a shortcut and make sure it works and
explain it if you're father's not computer savy) with this application. This
will give you DOS emulation and is by far the most likely to work solution.

DOSBox, a x86 emulator with DOS:
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/


Galen
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"You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his
trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will
come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all."

Sherlock Holmes
 
Correction of link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/ games/expert/durham_og.mspx

In LaraPhoenix <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:





List of stuff to try - in order...

Right click the .EXE file in the program files after installing it, select
properties, select compatability, and set it to be 95 comp. I realize you
said you did so but could you triple check and make sure that it was for 95?
You might want to go ahead and tweak it - there's a LOT that CAN be done
with this but that's a lot of overwhelming information so we'll skip that
for now.

Getting Older Games to Run on Windows XP:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/games/expert/durham_og.mspx&e=9797

(That's a good article)

Finally there's a small learning curve but if you were able to find here you
can configure it (and then make a shortcut and make sure it works and
explain it if you're father's not computer savy) with this application. This
will give you DOS emulation and is by far the most likely to work solution.

DOSBox, a x86 emulator with DOS:
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/


Galen
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Extra " " removed. ;-)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/games/expert/durham_og.mspx

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| Correction of link:
| http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/ games/expert/durham_og.mspx
|
|
| Galen wrote:
|
| >In | >LaraPhoenix <[email protected]> had this to say:
| >
| > My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
| >
| >
| >
| >>I have, or rather my father has an old Win 95 game (Congo descent
| >>into zinj) he really loved but never got to finished because our win
| >>95 computer died; we have over 5 computers in our house now, all on
| >>one version of xp or another, and none will play it. It says it
| >>sucessfully installs but then freezes on a black screen when you try
| >>to run it.
| >>I have tried running the installation exe in compatibility, as well
| >>as the program exe itself; I've tried running it from dos; I've tried
| >>copying the whole cd contents onto the hard drive and making
| >>everything compatible and then running the installer from the hard
| >>drive- Same Result. What Can I Do? Always happy to live and learn,
| >>LaraPhoenix
| >>
| >>
| >
| >
| >List of stuff to try - in order...
| >
| >Right click the .EXE file in the program files after installing it, select
| >properties, select compatability, and set it to be 95 comp. I realize you
| >said you did so but could you triple check and make sure that it was for 95?
| >You might want to go ahead and tweak it - there's a LOT that CAN be done
| >with this but that's a lot of overwhelming information so we'll skip that
| >for now.
| >
| >Getting Older Games to Run on Windows XP:
| >http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/games/expert/durham_og.mspx&e=9797
| >
| >(That's a good article)
| >
| >Finally there's a small learning curve but if you were able to find here you
| >can configure it (and then make a shortcut and make sure it works and
| >explain it if you're father's not computer savy) with this application. This
| >will give you DOS emulation and is by far the most likely to work solution.
| >
| >DOSBox, a x86 emulator with DOS:
| >http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
| >
| >
| >Galen
| >
| >
|
|
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In Jimmy S. <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
Extra " " removed. ;-)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/games/expert/durham_og.mspx
Click to expand...

Thank you both, seems they've killed my link since I was there last... It
was a good link too. Ah well, thanks for pointing the OP to the correct one.

Galen
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"You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his
trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will
come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all."

Sherlock Holmes
 
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