by Ice Cream Jonsey » Mon Oct 08, 2007 12:18 am
hygraed wrote:Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:The Segasoft guys were fucking incompetent.
Did you ever play Rocket Jockey?
I did! It was on my list there in the 30s if I remember correctly. Great game. And I remember that note as well, haha.
That doesn't matter though because Rocket Jockey was fucking awesome.
Absolutely. I can't get it to run on XP in any way, shape or form. It's so much fun I should get a Windows 98 machine going for it.
And by, "the Segasoft guys are incompetent": I should clarify that. It's my understanding that the publisher pretty much handles the installers when it comes to commercial games. I knew that the Space Bar was developed by Boffo Games. It was included in a two-pack with Rocket Jockey, so I got them both at the same time and it drove home the point with me that SegaSoft was the publisher. So that's all I meant: the guys doing the installer for the Space Bar probably wanted to stop people who had Windows 3.11 from trying to install it. But you can do it two ways: you can check for Windows 95 and if the bit isn't there, not allow the installer to continue, or you can see if something unique for Windows 3.11 is there and then disallow it. The decision they made was of course the wrong way to go.
That whole era of PC games is going to be the real lost one, I think. We can DOSbox things from the 386 era fairly well. I doubt we'll ever see a similar movement for games like the Space Bar, Rocket Jockey and others that came out in 95-97.
I did get the Space Bar to run, though. It only shows up in a 640x480 window that you can't drag anywhere. When I try to move the mouse around to look at things, it spins too quickly. Whoops.
[quote="hygraed"][quote="Ice Cream Jonsey"]The Segasoft guys were fucking incompetent.[/quote]
Did you ever play Rocket Jockey? [/quote]
I did! It was on my list there in the 30s if I remember correctly. Great game. And I remember that note as well, haha.
[quote]That doesn't matter though because Rocket Jockey was fucking awesome.[/quote]
Absolutely. I can't get it to run on XP in any way, shape or form. It's so much fun I should get a Windows 98 machine going for it.
And by, "the Segasoft guys are incompetent": I should clarify that. It's my understanding that the publisher pretty much handles the installers when it comes to commercial games. I knew that the Space Bar was developed by Boffo Games. It was included in a two-pack with Rocket Jockey, so I got them both at the same time and it drove home the point with me that SegaSoft was the publisher. So that's all I meant: the guys doing the installer for the Space Bar probably wanted to stop people who had Windows 3.11 from trying to install it. But you can do it two ways: you can check for Windows 95 and if the bit isn't there, not allow the installer to continue, or you can see if something unique for Windows 3.11 is there and then disallow it. The decision they made was of course the wrong way to go.
That whole era of PC games is going to be the real lost one, I think. We can DOSbox things from the 386 era fairly well. I doubt we'll ever see a similar movement for games like the Space Bar, Rocket Jockey and others that came out in 95-97.
I did get the Space Bar to run, though. It only shows up in a 640x480 window that you can't drag anywhere. When I try to move the mouse around to look at things, it spins too quickly. Whoops.