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I think I played MM 3-5 using Windows 3.1.1
05/09/2015, 20:21:49

    Peter2 writes:

    When we moved house about 20 months ago, I even found some savegames from that era – on floppies, would you believe? I can see the box that they were in, but it's well buried at the bottom of one of my storage cupboards, and no way am I going to disinter it at 00:50 hrs with other people asleep in the house. One of the (few) disadvantages of our present dwelling is rather thin walls. Anyway, it's so long since I used my floppy drive, I'm not sure that that it will work any more – it's probably clogged up with dust.

    I certainly first played MM6 on a Win95 O/S, though, and I still maintain a vintage 1999 laptop with a Win98 O/S specifically for playing MM6 in the fashion originally intended. It'll play MM7 and MM8, but it won't handle MM9. Additionally, I have an old dual-drive computer with a Win2000 OS on one drive, and a Win98 drive on the other, which I play most of my games on. But even by the time I got that one, which wasn't really very long after MM6 came out (a couple of years or so), it was too fast to allow all MM6's Easter Eggs to be deposited, or all the hirelings to have names and trades.

    By the way, Elf, changing the subject completely, you might well remember this one. I heard a track played yesterday that really took me back to my youth: Link Wray's "Rumble" – one of the truly great early guitar riffs.





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