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Originally Posted by Hee Ho Ho
of course it was an improvement, no doubt.
it has both new and old version in one to make everyone happy. if you tried to run the old one on a new system, you'd have difficulty, this way you could play the old version on a new system due to compatibility. so i'm going to say improvement.
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Originally Posted by Olaus Petrus
Difficulty? Any DOS emulator can run original SMI without problems.
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Originally Posted by Hee Ho Ho
yeah, but it would be easier just to launch the new one, then press the button that changes the game to the old one, that's easier, dos emus are usually not straight forward, considering you have to use command line (dosbox). it's not really for the basic computer user.
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Originally Posted by Olaus Petrus
Commands are really quite simple. DOSBox is actually a lot easier to use than real DOS and everyone and their mother used to have MS-DOS as their operating system. I believe that average computer users remember at least basic DOS commands from the earlier days. So it shouldn't really be a problem.
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Why are you guys even discussing DOSBox when it comes to SMI? ...That is to say, ANY game that uses the SCUMM engine, SMI included, runs beautifully under ScummVM with no problems whatsoever.
Hee Ho Ho, ScummVM is not only easy enough that a three-headed monkey could use it, but it also requires no DOS commands. All you'd have to do, in SMI's case, is copy the entire set of game files from the diskettes or CD to a folder on your PC, then "Add" a new game to ScummVM's list, browse to the game folder and click Okay. That's all.
