Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure under Virtual PC

re: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure under Virtual PC

Aric Wilmunder — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:37:47 GMT

I believe the divide by zero was a bug found during the audio initialization. There should have been a fix for this once the issue was identified.

re: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure under Virtual PC

Benjamin Armstrong — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:40:45 GMT

InlandAZ -

Yup, I agree. Sound is the most problematic part of running DOS games under Virtual PC.

Alex / James G.-

Sorry, I cannot discuss future releases.

Mike Dimmick -

Yes, check out: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2007/05/14/slowing-down-virtual-machines.aspx

Marid Audran -

I do have a copy of that (I have a complete collection of all LucasArts adventure games) but I have not gotten around to trying it.

Cheers,

Ben

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

Marid Audran — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:29:34 GMT

Have you tried Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Fate of Atlantis and Circuit's Edge were my favorite of those type of games.

re: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure under Virtual PC

James G. — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:23:14 GMT

Where's the direct3d support?

I mean that's neet you can play 80/90's games on in a virtual environment. But what about businesses that rely on 3d rendering? and want or need it in a virtual environment?

Where's directx/3d????

VMWare already has Direct3D support.

VBox has OpenGL working really well.

Microsoft??? nothing?

re: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure under Virtual PC

Mike Dimmick — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:44:57 GMT

'Divide error' on old games is usually timing loop calibration error - it loops a number of times over some supposedly complex calculation, then divides by the time taken in clock ticks to calibrate how long it needs to busy-wait, in the game loop. It's commonly used when playing sounds.

As systems get faster, the number of ticks approaches, then reaches, 0. With low count numbers it means the timing loops get very inaccurate. The problem is intermittent here as the timing on your box must be very close between a tick occurring within the calibration loop, and not occurring.

Sadly, Virtual PC has no 'slow down' option!

re: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure under Virtual PC

Alan Burchill — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:34:22 GMT

OMG... This game is so cool and i still have the original game and box... wounder if it is worth anything...

Virtual pc roadmap

Alex — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:26:53 GMT

Hi!

Im just wondering if there has been any news on the future of virtual pc? A new version in the planning?

re: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure under Virtual PC

InlandAZ — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:59:03 GMT

I'm a huge fan of Virtual PC as well as Lucas Arts myself. My main issue with VPC so far has been its support for sound running older DOS titles (even when running DOS based VM's.)

Try playing The Fate of Atlantis someday, you'll see what I mean.

It would be nice if this could be addressed (in Virtual PC that is, we know the emulators work).

Someday when you’ve got the time, install Darkseed II under a Windows 9.x VM – that one’s really got some serious issues (it seems to be related to Video for Windows).