Posted January 27, 2021
Writing here as no one else so far has been able to tell and answer on this, its not gog.com related but its about retro gaming:
I purchased command aces of the deep game from this guy who make retro games to work on modern windows computers and mac too:
https://www.allvideoclassicgames.com/
Here is the ebay page of the game I want to play again and have at my home and did in the past:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/COMMAND-ACES-OF-THE-DEEP-1Clk-Windows-10-8-7-Vista-XP-Install/254592610163?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649
What Im worried now is that by how its emulated to work on modern pc´s its maybe damaging my computer due to this happened in the past:
On my 2 generations ago gaming pc I got this game and installed it and it runs perfectly and was much fun but after 1-2 months the computer just died on me, had it sent for fixing and apparently the harddrive had crashed so had to geta new one and windows 7 reinstalled. OK bad luck as the pc was from 2008 and this happened in 2015).
I reinstaled this game again and after 3-4 months the pc shut down all the time at random, at first when I started this game and then any game and then internet, just shuts down. It wasnt due to overheating and most of my friends had no idea why. So I decided to upgrade and get myself a new pc and now without a cd reader as all my pc games is anyways purchased digitally.
Now I realise that it might been the power unit in the pc that maybe was old and couldnt supply enough power for the pc when it wanted to power up the fans and do gaming.
But you see the dilema here: each time I installed the game and within 2-3 months my pc´s has crashed.
Now I have a state of the art gaming pc for over 4000 dollar and got the game on SD card but I hesitate to run it as Im worried the same thing will happen again...
How the games are made to run on any modern windows:
You get a cd/in my case a file where it installs the game and also a simulation of windows 95 and then I mean a complete windows 95 with all menus and drives and settings, overlay, windows button to turn the pc off, restart etc. On the desktop you have the game which you can start and the game register your pc as a windows 95 and runs as it should. You can only in this wndows 95 mode change time settings and screen resolutions but nothing else. To get out of this and in effect turn off the game: you need to select: restart this computer and after windows 95 closes, the program is turned off and you return to your windows 10/normal state.
I tried to google this or read up on how this is done and if it is damaging to my pc or if its a safe thing and I have nothing to worry about?
I have uploaded the game files so I could have it sent so someone who can this stuff can see and tell me?
If gog.com started to release older games again and especielly this and the other sierra simulator games, then I would use gog.coms version of the game and be safe about it :P
I purchased command aces of the deep game from this guy who make retro games to work on modern windows computers and mac too:
https://www.allvideoclassicgames.com/
Here is the ebay page of the game I want to play again and have at my home and did in the past:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/COMMAND-ACES-OF-THE-DEEP-1Clk-Windows-10-8-7-Vista-XP-Install/254592610163?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649
What Im worried now is that by how its emulated to work on modern pc´s its maybe damaging my computer due to this happened in the past:
On my 2 generations ago gaming pc I got this game and installed it and it runs perfectly and was much fun but after 1-2 months the computer just died on me, had it sent for fixing and apparently the harddrive had crashed so had to geta new one and windows 7 reinstalled. OK bad luck as the pc was from 2008 and this happened in 2015).
I reinstaled this game again and after 3-4 months the pc shut down all the time at random, at first when I started this game and then any game and then internet, just shuts down. It wasnt due to overheating and most of my friends had no idea why. So I decided to upgrade and get myself a new pc and now without a cd reader as all my pc games is anyways purchased digitally.
Now I realise that it might been the power unit in the pc that maybe was old and couldnt supply enough power for the pc when it wanted to power up the fans and do gaming.
But you see the dilema here: each time I installed the game and within 2-3 months my pc´s has crashed.
Now I have a state of the art gaming pc for over 4000 dollar and got the game on SD card but I hesitate to run it as Im worried the same thing will happen again...
How the games are made to run on any modern windows:
You get a cd/in my case a file where it installs the game and also a simulation of windows 95 and then I mean a complete windows 95 with all menus and drives and settings, overlay, windows button to turn the pc off, restart etc. On the desktop you have the game which you can start and the game register your pc as a windows 95 and runs as it should. You can only in this wndows 95 mode change time settings and screen resolutions but nothing else. To get out of this and in effect turn off the game: you need to select: restart this computer and after windows 95 closes, the program is turned off and you return to your windows 10/normal state.
I tried to google this or read up on how this is done and if it is damaging to my pc or if its a safe thing and I have nothing to worry about?
I have uploaded the game files so I could have it sent so someone who can this stuff can see and tell me?
If gog.com started to release older games again and especielly this and the other sierra simulator games, then I would use gog.coms version of the game and be safe about it :P
Post edited January 27, 2021 by judge_death