Hey all,
I'm dying to play a relatively unknown game called The Day The World Broke on my shiny new Macbook; however I can find virtually nothing about this old gem.
...Unfortunately it is a PC-only game and doesn't work too good on a PC running XP as it is.
I'd love to know if Scumm can do anything with this game (made by Houghton Mifflin Interactive/ HMI), OR if I'm missing something utterly obvious. I have a very hard time finding even the box art for this old game.
Thanks for any help!
HH
The Day The World Broke
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According to CD Access, which is apparently still selling it, it's a Windows game, not a DOS game.PsYcO wrote:not really, try bosbox maybe?
Google turned up a page about it at Houghton Mifflin, though I can't seem to find it by navigating their web site, so it may be just some left-over. However, it does seem to confirm that it's a Windows game.
Since ScummVM is an implementation of a set of specific game engines, rather than a general-purpose DOS or Windows emulator, the chances that the game will work with ScummVM are close to zero.
Unfortunately WINE generally needs to be run on a true x86 environment - from what I understand, WINE itself is a program loader and API interpreter, meaning that it receives the calls from programs expecting to find Windows and turns them into the equivalent on Linux.
E.g. if program XYZ calls a specific GDI function to draw a box on the screen, WINE picks up the GDI request, and passes it back to X to draw.
I don't know how well it works on non-x86 hardware, I didn't think it ran at all...
E.g. if program XYZ calls a specific GDI function to draw a box on the screen, WINE picks up the GDI request, and passes it back to X to draw.
I don't know how well it works on non-x86 hardware, I didn't think it ran at all...
HH talked about a "shiny new Macbook", so I assumed x86Arantor wrote:I don't know how well it works on non-x86 hardware, I didn't think it ran at all...
Also, kosuan pointed out that "VirtualPC for MacOS X does NOT work on an Intel based System"
so I figured: current mac + linux + wine = plays windows games?
How about VirtualBox? You'd still need a Win9x license and install disc to run on it, but as opposed to Virtual PC it's free and (somewhat) open source and runs on Mac OS X as well as Linux and Windows. MS' Virtual PC is now free for Windows but not for Mac, if I remember correctly.
ill treat that as non-rhetorical, but yeh, that should workcappuchok wrote:How about VirtualBox?