Populous and Populous: Undiscovered Worlds

[BladeRunner 0]

Has anybody been able to get these games working under Windows XP?

I've just had an e-mail from the girlfriend saying she is trying to run these games under the new machine I've just built her and they are "not going" as she put it.

I only get to see her at weekends, so it wont be until Friday when I get the chance to try the Compatability options.

Just wondered if anybody has successfully got these running so I'm prepared for this weekend.

 

Ta

[Mr.Guvernment 0]

how old are those games? i don't think they would run, maybe under compat mode, maybe.

[Grifta 0]

If you've both got XP just use "Remote Assist" it's incredably useful

[BladeRunner 0]

I thought about that.

I've never actually used Remote Assistance over dial-up and unforunately we are both still in the world of 56k - is it actually useable at that kind of speed?

 

Aye the games are pretty old.

I'm hoping that setting them to Win95 in compatability mode might be enough to get them running - it was just a long shot that somebody else here might have used them under WinXP and knew exactly what needed to be done.

[Jimmy058910 0]

Are you talking about the absolute very original Populous for like Sega?

 

Cause I do have it working, but not number 2....

 

Go to www.funmix.bravehost.com then click DOS games and find poulous *theres one and two there, 1 I didn't have to do anything special with, just number 2 is a mess)