Teddy

cake mania
all three mfc games
fish tycoon
sim theme park
sim tower
family fued
hidden treasure titanic
and others of similar style. i got one of the nancy drew's to work with a
change in the install to change the path of install. (found this hint on the
her interactive DB).
this is just a few of the games but some of my faves.



"Dale White" wrote:

> What older games are you having trouble with. I installed and played
> WarCraft 3, which is a 1999 game. I have Math Blaster 12 running, The girl
> friend plays Hoyles Card game. I don't do alot of the MSN style games, but
> so far, I haven't found a game that doesn't work.
>
>
> "Teddy" <Teddy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:36995D6A-696C-4FF2-961D-8D4AC57F63B6@microsoft.com...
> > You are probably like me in this situation and it is not just older games
> > but
> > cheap games or non RPG big money maker games.. i have read MS went to alot
> > of
> > trouble to make vista compatable with WOW, AC, Halo etc but those of us
> > who
> > have older or cheaper games ie. the yahoo, msn, oberon download games,
> > nancy
> > drew games, older sim games are just out of luck unless the manufacturer
> > of
> > the game prepares a fix in which we will prob have to buy an entirely new
> > game to play. in my search for fixes, causes and such i also read that
> > vista
> > won't even play some of the games on the MS zone game site.. tells you how
> > important some pple are in comparison to the big gamer.. p.s. nothing
> > personal to the big gamer i used to be one. . in fact played ac, wow,
> > linage
> > and more but can not anymore due to health issues so the enjoyment i get
> > is
> > now limited to these lesser games and i am very angry MS overlooked us in
> > their quest for a great gaming OS.. makes me wish i had not bought my new
> > computer.
> >
> >
> >
> > "w" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all
> >>
> >> Trying to Get an older game installed and working for the kids
> >> "Scooby-Doo! from SouthPeak Interactive
> >>
> >> Starts through installation process, then I receive this error message
> >> "Windows cannot find 'C:\Progra~1\Plus!\themese.exe'. Make sure you
> >> typed the name correctly and then try again."
> >>
> >> What can I do to get these working
> >> Thanks much!
> >> -w
> >>
> >>
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