Tex Murphy, DOSBox, and the Gravis UltraSound 16
I had just purchased my first PC after years of loving my Amiga. It was 1992, and after much pouring over the Sunday BestBuy inserts, I finally purchased. At over $3000, I received an IBM4019 laser printer, a 14″-ish monitor, and an IBM 486DX/33 PS/1 with 8MB of RAM (standard was 2 or maybe 4) and a 210MB hard drive. Naturally, this machine was preloaded with OS/2, and didn’t come with drivers for the printer (which was part of the package). And, as was common, there was no sound card. So, back to BestBuy I go…and based upon specs alone, I purchased a Gravis UltraSound. I was a clean slate–I had no knowledge or preconceptions about the PC sound card market of the time. I didn’t even realize how lame OS/2 2.1 was, either, I guess...
Tex Murphy Under a Killing Moon – DOSBox Guide (No CDs)
When last we met our hero, he was struggling in vain to hear the sweet jazz stylings of James Earl Jones as the Great Detective in the Sky. “Why, oh, why aren’t DOS legacy sound drivers a requirement of WQHL certification?” he lamented… I was working 3rd Shift (11:00pm to 7:00am) when I first saw Under a Killing Moon. And, as one might imagine, I had a great deal of spare time on my hands. A perfect situation for an adventure game that was fun, and most importantly, had serious plot-depth. I can even remember the PC Gaming articles, remarking that it was a game with chuztspa to recommend 4 CDROM drives and a 486DX/66 just to get the full experience. And really, it has only been out-paced by hardware in the last 4 or 5...
Tex Murphy Overseer Install Guide
I remember walking into my new Software Etc store in the late 90′s and wondering where it would all end. Who and how were they going to top this one? The box on the rack that contained Tex Murphy Overseer had a little, flashing, red light to highlight the box art. Right at the top of the building in picture was a miniature LED driven by a watch battery. Definitely eye-catching. And the MMX badge prominently displayed–it was Intel, in fact, that played a large role in financing this fifth entry into the Tex Murphy Universe. And if you read the interviews with Access muckity-mucks, the imposed development time-line necessary to get the game done at the same time the Pentium MMX processors shipped is somewhat to blame for Overseer’s rough...
Tex Murphy Overseer (Coming Soon)
Keep tuned…I’ll post soon with a complete setup guide. This game is running great, without much in the way of real issues on Windows XP. That is, except for the MIDI music… And yes, I know there’s other info out there (such as on the boards of the Unofficial Tex Murphy website), but I thought it might be nice to have it all in one spot. In other big news, PHP is no where near the mystery it was to me a few days ago. I should have my own custom WordPress theme done sometime...
Tex Murphy Rides Again (Pandora Directive and DOSBox w/o CDs)
“I’d like to help you, but I can’t.” The glory days of adventure games are gone. I really hate to say that, but let’s be realistic. As much as anyone, I have fond memories of all night runs at the latest title. I actually played through Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis on an Amiga 500, for heaven’s sake. (For the uninitiated, an A500 didn’t come with a hard drive, and there were 14 diskettes that I had to swap between two floppy drives.) I was working 2nd shift when The 7th Guest came out, and I distinctly remember agonizing over the $250.00 CD-ROM upgrade. I ended up with a glacially slow 2X Mitsumi. I wanted one of the new Plextors that ran at 3X but they required SCSI, and this Mitsumi had it’s own ISA...
Alien Breed Obliteration
Well, it has been a while since I last posted. Sorry about that–things have been crazy busy. SQL Reporting Services has me beaten down. I can’t seem to get the silly thing to pass authentication to the query the DB server. Keeps generating an error that states that my user name is “null”. I’ve done quite a bit of research on it–and am frustrated. I posted on the microsoft newsgroups…if that doesn’t work, I guess I’ll have to call support. This is just stupid–this kind of operation should be expected! We are working to get the house finished. I’ve hung all the trim, finished the cedar on the front porch and stained it, started painting the doors and trim. All those little details. ...
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