Favorite games

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DonCorazon said:
Master of Magic - I never played this. I tried once to download some abandonware and DOS emulator but I am no tech guru and never managed to get this to run.

I see now you can buy a version on eBay for ~$80 that supposedly has been patched to easily run on XP or Vista and has the manuals on CD.

Wondering how fun it would be at this point? On the plus side, I have never played it. On the negative side, that is pretty expensive and some of those old school games are more fun in one's memory than they are when you try to play them these days.

Any thoughts? Thanks.

They're selling it for $80 on ebay? That sounds really expensive, I remember I got it for around $50 when it first came out. Anyway, I'm sure you can find it for less, or probably get it from an abandonware site otherwise. I've gotten my version working on Dosbox (on a Mac no less) with no serious problems. Check out Dosbox if you are having problems with XP, it's free and open source! Master of Magic is still pretty fun. It is basically like Civilization with magic. What is most interesting about it is looking at the wizard creation process and seeing how it obviously inspired CoE and Dominions pretender creation. The library of spells is fun too, though not as extensive as Dom 3's. Still I have to wonder why Master of Magic never had a sequel...