Favorite games

DonCorazon · #1 March 18th, 2008, 05:13 PM

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.

Omnirizon · #2 March 19th, 2008, 01:03 AM

don't click the link

NO!!! I said DON'T click the link.

ahh. you done did it. you clicked the link. you can kiss your evening goodbye.

http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/game.asp

Wokeye · #3 March 19th, 2008, 02:42 AM

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DonCorazon said:
Master of Magic - I never played this.
Wondering how fun it would be at this point?
Any thoughts?

DC, MoM is a classic (and fun) game, but I wouldn't spend $US80 on it.

DonCorazon · #4 March 19th, 2008, 03:08 AM

Wokeye, thanks for the feedback. I wish I hadn't missed it the first time around, but suspect that it wouldn't be worth so much cold hard cash today, despite the fat and enticing manual...

moderation · #5 March 19th, 2008, 03:45 AM

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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...

B0rsuk · #6 March 19th, 2008, 06:05 AM

Quick tips on running MOM with Dosbox:

1. Download MOM from http://www.the-underdogs.info
2. Unpack to a directory of your choice
3. Run dosbox
4. Type:
mount c: /directory/with/MOM
c:
4.
type
install
(select sound blaster pro 'later' for sound and music)
5.
Type:
magic
6. Optimize CPU cycles by pressing CTRL-F12 (faster) or CTRL-F11 (slower) until it feels fast for you. There should be no delay in menu.

Note that you only have to do points 1,2 and 4 the first time. Later, just do the remaining points.

mathusalem · #7 March 19th, 2008, 07:27 AM

the version of MOM from the Underdogs is the 1.31 ?

B0rsuk · #8 March 19th, 2008, 12:36 PM

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mathusalem said:
the version of MOM from the Underdogs is the 1.31 ?

No, it's 1.3.1

Stryke11 · #9 March 19th, 2008, 04:16 PM

About running MoM. I don't have specific rememberance, but I know that sometime in the past three years I loaded it up and played it on my WinXP rig (same as it is now, only diff is a beter vid card) and I DON'T recall using any helper programs. I know WinXP has a menu you can pull up when you right click a .bat or .exe file that impacts how it tries to run the file...perhaps there's another way? I own the game, but I think this recent install was from a dl'd copy (who can keep full track of game CD's from that far back). I don't have it installed anymore, so sorry I can't give more specific help.

lch · #10 March 19th, 2008, 06:01 PM

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Stryke11 said:
About running MoM. I don't have specific rememberance, but I know that sometime in the past three years I loaded it up and played it on my WinXP rig (same as it is now, only diff is a beter vid card) and I DON'T recall using any helper programs.

The question is: Do you remember if you had sound or not? If you had sound, then either you are using a very old sound card, or one that is mysteriously driver compatible with a Sound Blaster 16 or older one.