Queen The eYe

Hi all..!

I got a question. Recently I took this game (Queen the Eye) out of the closet and I wanted to play it again. However, I can't get it working in an XP environment. I tried the option to let it work as win '95 program, but that didn't work either.

Does anyone know what to do to be able to play this game again? Would love to play it again.

Greetz!

The only thing I can do is go to the setup for sounds after the installation. When I start the game I don't even get the intro, I just get a blurred screen..the only thing I can do then is press escape and curse...

(maybe they should redevelop the game for XP?:)

IT did have this game but it wouldn't work on my computer i have windows xp with the compatilblity wizard and it wouldn't take it when taken back to win95 mode,i think you would have to run it in MS-DOS mode try that.

hmm, the only thing left nowadays is the dosprompt, which is part of windows as well, so it still won't work for me..:( I could try to install ms-dos ones to see if it'll work then, but I guess it'll give conflicts too... kinda hoped someone else has tried that before I blow all the dust away, which is on the box from our old computer..:P

This is an old game.

It does not run on Windows XP.

oh really John? I haven't noticed...:/

One thing i can think of is having the CD inserted whilst starting up the PC. Then pressing F8 continually until you get the Windows menu and selecting Command Prompt only. then typing the filename and path into that.

If that doesn't work, it should almost 90% sure, if you insert a Windows 98 bootup disk.

that's not such a bad idea genius, i'll go try it out. thanks!:)

And Hero, you're quite right, it's indeed frustrating that it wasn't that long playable. Especially now with dolby surround on the pc...imagine playing the Arena now..:)

John S Stuart wrote:

This is an old game.

It does not run on Windows XP.

John - there are plenty of older non-xp games that i've managed to get to work

Myst
&th guest
11th Hour

there must be a fix out there somewhere....its odd that compatatbility mode refuses to cooperate

Let me know how it goes. I will be intregued.

it failed miserably so far...
I can't start in dos environment using F8, campatability didnt work, boot disk didnt do much good either. so i'm really out of ideas for now, maybe good night sleep gives new ones.
If someone else cares to try than please do so, it could be me of course who does it aaaaaaaaall wrong:P

I did an extensive google for you and it looks like you might be out of look. There is a dos version and a Windows version and it seems you have the former.

Apparently though, one good suggestion is to download an MS-DOS emulator and try that.

by the way it's a difficult game, i have never went out alive from the works domain :|

many games have an xp patch, but for what i know not the eYe. try the msDos emulator

you can enjoy the music actually ;)

... did anyone try a virtual machine like VMWare?

You might install that on XP, then install the right version of Windows on that and then play the game on the "virtual" operating system.

Not that I ever tried (I haven't got "The eYe" at all) but that's how I hear several people get to run older programs on XP - not sure if there might be particular issues with games, though.

FWIW

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Gnomo
(not very computer-savvy)

You could also try dosbox.sf.net