While cleaning out my basement, I found myself suffering from a bad case of nostalgia. I found one game that I used to play alllllll the time when I was younger, and now I want to replay it, just to relive and remember what it was like.

 

I have like a second version of Vista, not the original. It looks more like Windows 7, but it's not, it's Vista.

 

Anyway, when I put the disc in, a small window with a picture of the characters from the game came up, along with an option to Install, so I did. I heard the modem going, and then eventually nothing happened.... I opened up My Computer folder, right clicked on it and clicked, "Play", but then my Media Player popped up and started playing all the music from the game, rather than playing the actual game. I tried looking for a "Compatibility" option, but couldn't find that anywhere.

 

Any one here thinks they can help me?

 

Thanks!

When you put the game disc in it might try to play the first audio file it can find instead of the EXE file to install and play the game.. you will have to go into disc it self and look for the EXE file to install. then you run into the problem where it might not want to play on the OS. (example: Warcraft 1 and 2 WILL NOT want to run on windows 7).

 

HOW TO DO THAT

 

put the disk in the drive

 

when the windows goes to do autoplay just exit the window

 

go to my computer

 

Click in the drive that you have the cd in and click explore or open in file explore or something like that

 

then look for a file called INSTALL.EXE or something like that and click that and follow the instructions.

 

and thats it

Edited June 7, 201213 yr by Friend

When you put the game disc in it might try to play the first audio file it can find instead of the EXE file to install and play the game.. you will have to go into disc it self and look for the EXE file to install. then you run into the problem where it might not want to play on the OS. (example: Warcraft 1 and 2 WILL NOT want to run on windows 7).

 

HOW TO DO THAT

 

put the disk in the drive

 

when the windows goes to do autoplay just exit the window

 

go to my computer

 

Click in the drive that you have the cd in and click explore or open in file explore or something like that

 

then look for a file called INSTALL.EXE or something like that and click that and follow the instructions.

 

and thats it

 

I found a file named "_INST32I.EX_"

It looks exactly like that. The icon is a blank piece of paper. There was no "install" button like you said (or what I understood that you said), but when I clicked "open," a new dialogue box popped up stating that Windows cannot open the file and would like to know what Program to run it in.

 

Does my game not work?!!?!

http://kh13.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/smiley-cry.png

Edited June 7, 201213 yr by wayfinder823

problem solved through the chat.

 

program will not install due to difference in operation system (game made for 32bit back when windows 95 was out and owners O/S is 64bit Vista)

 

only foreseeable option is to install 95/98/XP32bit back onto computer at loss of all data on computer along with functions of Vista

You got a problem... my answer? go look up a walkthrough on youtube.

I didn't know people still used Vista. You can probably look up a way to play it online.

You should upgrade to Windows 7, it has ways to use older software.