Greetings MechWarrior
May 6th, 2008 by pyra
A friend of mine at work loaned me a copy of MechWarrior 2, circa 1995. There were two goals:
1) Hear the sound track that comes on the Disk
2) Attempt to get the game to play on WinXP
Getting the game to install was tricky enough.
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I’m not sure if my midi was working. And ‘Electronic Registration’ was a fax machine.
I do wish I had gotten a screenshot warning me that the “Full” install was “105 MegaBytes”. Wooo, considering my drive has around 384 GigaBytes free, I wasn’t too concerned. Besides, FF takes up around 9 GB and my FRAPS folder is another 5 GB.
The game does not currently play. It crashes as it tries to start the actual game – although the opening CSs play fine in their 640×480 glory. I also cannot get screenshots of the game, FRAPS apparently does not realize it is playing a game.
Oh well, it was worth it just to see if I could make the game run. I have not given up yet, but I believe it will take something a little more exotic than I had originally planned. Now if I can find my copy of Win95 and Virtual PC, I might be able to make this work.