Timeline
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02/02/17 02:35 PM
02/02/17 02:35 PM
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petert
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About 10 or 15 years ago, I played the Michael Crichton game Timeline - a bit clunky but there you go.
When I originally tried to set Timeline up, I found that it would not run on XP - it would not load, saying that it would not run on NT. I guess that shows the date most explicitly. It also would not run on VirtualPC, a consequence of the video card in VirtualPC.
However, the experts of GB managed to instruct me how to make it run in XP, and their solution required me to download and run "imagecfg" and incorporate it in the loading of the game.
However, when I try to repeat the modus operandi today, I cannot make it work again. It bluntly gives me the "Will not run on Windows NT" and will not allow me even to run setup.exe.
Does anyone have any ideas of how I might be able to make it run again in XP?
petert
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Re: Timeline
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02/02/17 04:46 PM
02/02/17 04:46 PM
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Jenny100
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When I originally tried to set Timeline up, I found that it would not run on XP - it would not load, saying that it would not run on NT. I guess that shows the date most explicitly. It also would not run on VirtualPC, a consequence of the video card in VirtualPC.
However, the experts of GB managed to instruct me how to make it run in XP, and their solution required me to download and run "imagecfg" and incorporate it in the loading of the game. imagecfg is for forcing computers with multicore processors and/or hyperthreading to use a single thread for a game. This is a different problem from a Windows 98 executable not wanting to run on an NT-based system. There is more about problems with hyperthreading and/or multicore processors here http://www.gameboomers.com/Members/legacygameshyperthreading.htmTimeline is not listed on that page, but the list is incomplete, so forcing the game to run on a single processor may help. However it won't fix everything if the problem is with the game .exe not wanting to run on NT-based Windows. It bluntly gives me the "Will not run on Windows NT" and will not allow me even to run setup.exe. You might be able to change compatibility mode on the setup.exe to Windows 95 or 98 before running it, and get it to run that way. Right-click the .exe, choose Properties, change to Windows 95 or 98/ME on the compatibility tab.
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Re: Timeline
[Re: petert]
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02/03/17 11:35 PM
02/03/17 11:35 PM
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Iurii
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If I remember it correctly, in order to run this game on newer OSes, you have to set 'Windows 95' compatibility mode and make some registry tweeks. Edit file 'compreg.bat' (it could be necessary to rename it into *.txt, write the changes, then rename it back to .bat and run it) - the Windows path should be: PATH=C:\Windows\System;C:\WinNT\System32;C:\Windows\System32. And if you have flickerings, the most easy way to solve them could be using DgVoodoo ( http://dege.freeweb.hu)! Just put d3d8.dll and other *.dll files into the directory with the game's EXE.
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Re: Timeline
[Re: petert]
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02/06/17 01:34 PM
02/06/17 01:34 PM
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Can't you download and save the DgVoodoo installer to a USB drive using the Windows 7 computer, then copy from the USB drive to the XP computer? Or does the DgVoodoo installer need an internet connection to install? I don't know if I'd want to risk editing the XP registry just for this game. I don't remember it being very well reviewed. Gameboomers and Adventuregamers didn't even bother to review it, though there was a review at JA+. http://www.justadventure.com/2013-05-20-21-09-14/1026-timeline
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Re: Timeline
[Re: petert]
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02/25/17 12:37 AM
02/25/17 12:37 AM
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DgVoodoo does not need to be installed. Just drop the files in the game's folder. Keep in mind that the current version (version 2) will not work on XP as it requires DirectX 11. Another wrapper you can try for XP is Zeckensacks. http://www.zeckensack.de/glide/index.html@ Iurii, You do not need to change the extension of a batch file to edit it. Just right click it and choose "Edit".
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