umm.. first off who needs a virtual machine to run starcraft? i and plenty of people i know run starcraft perfectly fine on windows7 and even vista. And another thing Commander Keen is freaking awesome.

Is it just me or was the graphic designer of commander keen 4 on a bad acid trip?

I’m holding out for Sonic CD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_CD) – After trying the SonicFix to patch the graphics it still wouldn’t play on Windows 7 or in a Windows XP VM.

It plays fine in a Windows 98 VM, but the music doesn’t play because the Windows 7 virtual machine host doesn’t really support sound.

This is a terrible summary…

He didn’t use DirectX for this, the whole point of the project is to NOT use DirectX. He implemented a sort of OpenGL compatibility layer that interprets ddraw.dll calls.

While we are at it, both Sim Farm and Commander Keen are DOS games, and as such would have absolutely nothing to do with DirectX. Use DOSbox if you want to play them.

Actually Commander Keen is already on Steam, as are the King’s Quest series, the Space Quest series, and others as well. Looking at the settings for DOSBox used to run those should help resolve a lot of issues for some games. I do admit though, that using DOSBox still produces the atrocity you see in the screen-shot on some games. The original X-Com game had the same issue in XP, as did System Shock 1 (which you can fix the graphics and sound for the intro, but the game itself is still want to crash at the drop of a hat).

or you can just kill explorer.exe fixes alot of old games that have issues.

@razor i still have an orginal copy of Under A Killing Moon, loved the Tex Murphy series.

I’m pretty sure all you need to do to fix SC is make it run off a batch file that kills explorer.exe then restarts it when you finish.

taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
C:\”Program Files”\”Starcraft”\”StarCraft.exe”
start explorer.exe

Sierra games rocked! I went to high school in oakhurst, ca. Birthplace of Sierra Online. Games like Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest and kings quest. I would love to see those games ported to windows 7. I guess a virtual machine for those games would be okay. Not like they need i7 core CPU with 1GB mem video card. ;)

Crazy enough, i dont normally purchase games (cough cough), but i do have Wing Commander III “Heart of the Tiger” in its original packaging. http://flic.kr/p/8zex4b

“has managed to use DirectDraw to his advantage and hack out a solution to this disappointing problem. He used DirectX to do this.”

This is completely and utterly wrong. In fact it’s pretty much the OPPOSITE of what he has done.

The guy has implemented old deprecated DirectDraw (which is part of DirectX) with OpenGL.

Launching commander keen from within a “rar” file works for me. Take the CK directory and using winrar, compress into a single file. Now when you double click your new file, winrar will open providing an explorer like interface. Run the exe right out of winrar and it games.