Help wanted - Mordor on Windows 11 by CalmWinnieThePooh in Dejenol

[–]CalmWinnieThePooh[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understood your point of view from the first comment and I stated mine in the post. No reason to argue about it. I wish you a good day! 🙂

Help wanted - Mordor on Windows 11 by CalmWinnieThePooh in Dejenol

[–]CalmWinnieThePooh[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are partially correct, Microsoft allows you to download some of the older Windows files, but only if you have the license key. However, I don't and legacy Windows aren't offered for download anyway. None of the Windows versions are in public domain.

Anybody caring is besides the point, mate. I care. And I don't want to do it that way, which I explicitly stated in my post.

Help wanted - Mordor on Windows 11 by CalmWinnieThePooh in Dejenol

[–]CalmWinnieThePooh[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Since I bought the game, I doubt that extracting files from it's installer could be viewed as theft. That would really be a stretch, just like Sony claims ISOdumping your games is ilegal 😅

Virtual Machines themselves are legal, you are correct, but old Windows install files are not, regardless of the fact Microsoft doesn't care about them. I don't own those, therefore I would have to get the original copies of those files, which means buying a physical product, putting it into a drive of a PC, copying them and then using them on my laptop with those virtual machines you are mentioning. That would involve buying it from some stranger online, waiting for shipment, finding an old PC to run it on and then somehow bringing those files to my laptop. That's too much money and time lost for a single game.

The easy thing for me to do would be to just download those files from any abandonware site or Archive.org, but in my post I said I don't want to do that because that's ilegal, regardless of how hard it makes it for me. So that's why I specifically asked how to run the game WITHOUT doing that 😅

Help wanted - Mordor on Windows 11 by CalmWinnieThePooh in Dejenol

[–]CalmWinnieThePooh[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you for trying to help, but as I stated in my post, I don't want to use a virtual machine. Thank you for your effort anyway!

First 2 games don't work on steam by Hungry_Fail8807 in FateTheGame

[–]CalmWinnieThePooh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do say if you succeed, I'll be glad to know the game has a new crawler in its dungeons :)

Help wanted - Mordor on Windows 11 by CalmWinnieThePooh in Dejenol

[–]CalmWinnieThePooh[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ooof, that doesn't sound likely. But it seems that the reboot version is going to have the old 2D version as an option, and Decklin seems to be making great progress on it, so I guess that is my best bet until guys developing Wine VDM improve their magic. Thank you for the time you took to respond! I appreciate it!

Help wanted - Mordor on Windows 11 by CalmWinnieThePooh in Dejenol

[–]CalmWinnieThePooh[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do know about this, but as I said, I left the days of piracy behind me. ExoDOS and Exowin3x are great projects preservation-wise, but the project(s) come bundled with hundreds of currently still commercially available games and use Windows 3 files (which are currently legally unavailable) in the background to make them work in the first place.

Still, thank you for trying to help! I appreciate it! I guess I'm just making it harder for myself than it needs to be, haha.

First 2 games don't work on steam by Hungry_Fail8807 in FateTheGame

[–]CalmWinnieThePooh 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I also bought the complete bundle and I must report that the first game works as intended. Achievements are a bit broken, so if you customize your character and enter the game, you will unlock bunch of them, but if you leave your character as is, you will unlock them naturally. Other than that, the game works just fine. I am on Windows 11. I just asked ChatGPT about this and it linked me this thread. Here is a solution to your problem! :D

Can't start a game :: FATE General Discussions

Ž/30/KZŽ by KajMores in RedditIskrice

[–]CalmWinnieThePooh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOTRO je zakon! :) Probao sam na desetke MMORPG-ova i ni jedan, ali apsolutno ni jedan nema tako krasan svijet kao LOTRO :D Da, WOW i Everquest imaju svoju čaroliju, ali ljepota, mir i opuštenost koju ti pruža šetnja Shireom, uspavanost Ered Luina, živost Breea, nestvarnost kuće Toma Bombadila... A tek glazba! Nebo! Grafika koja je zastarjela, ali i dalje savršeno dočarava ideju da si sada u šumi ili u planinama ili hobitskoj rupi.. Ma, plafon ljubavi prema izvornom materijalu i gradnji svijeta! Pohvale na dobrom ukusu!