Latest reviews:
|
The Dame Was LoadedReleased: 1996 Manufacturer: Philips Developer: Beam Software In Brief: Unexceptional game.
I think the best puzzle in this game was how to make the sound work in Windows. It took research, perseverance, knowledge and ingenuity (see how I did it below under Glitches). Once I got the game working, it was all downhill.
I haven't finished the game, and I haven't decided if I will, and the only reason I'm putting up this review is because I may help someone else get through the sound difficulty. This is a standard first-person game in which you are a detective on a case. You only have a couple of days to solve the case, and this game takes place in real time, so you have access to various areas at various times of the day and night. The script is somewhat witty and the acting is okay, although the lead is terribly miscast. I played until I ran out of time and had to restart the game from the beginning, which I found annoying. If I ever finish playing it I'll write more of a review. -- Charles Herold -2000 Glitches:I had quite a problem getting this game to work with Windows 98. First I couldn't get the sound working. I then ran it in DOS mode where the sound worked but the mouse didn't. Then I searched the newsgroups and found out there was a sound patch. With the patch, you got sound, but you got very bad sound. One newsgroup poster pointed out that Dame was running a program called wintest.exe which told the game to use high quality sound if in DOS and low-quality otherwise. I did a check and found wintest.exe returns an errorlevel of 1 in Windows and 0 in DOS. So what would happen, I thought, if I substituted a DOS program that would always return 0? So I copied c:/windows/command/mem.exe to the Dame directory, renamed it to wintest.exe (after renaming wintest.exe to xwintest.exe) and then ran the game. The sound was fine!
Also, I saved a game over a saved game and it didn't save.
Related Links:
|
Find Software: