![]() ![]() The player plays the role of an instructor of a caravan who is guiding a group of people on their way. The game was made to make the children learn about the real life of the nineteenth century. I'm going to pretend I didn't just waste about four hours of my life trying to make this work.The Oregon Trail is a classic computer video game, which is developed by MECC. ![]() exe from the disc it works fine without any problems. Apparently all the installer does is copy the CD files to the hard drive. The game files work fine on Windows 7, it's just the installer that doesn't. I just realized that I can run the game directly from the disc without installing. ![]() bin file instead, but I don't think I'll be able to load that in VMware.ĮDIT: Oh my god. I wanted to back it up because it's getting old and a bit roughed up, but I can't make an iso because it "contains multiple tracks," whatever that means. I've had this problem with this disc before. Right now I'm trying to make a software copy of the disc to see if it runs better that way, but I can't make an iso. If I try to open the disc drive it says "please insert disc". The disc is opening fine in Windows 7, just won't let me run the program because of compatibility. Yes, I must clarify: it shows a drive fine in "My Computer" but it says it's empty. Also: Giant Middle Finger to Microsoft, you bunch of assholes. I'll let you know how it goes in the end. If only I could find an ISO from the CD-ROM version, I might be able to get it to work, but I was only able to find floppies for some reason. I was kind of looking forward to having a mini-Win95 machine on my computer. Hopefully that will solve all the problems. So then I "found" a copy of Windows XP and am currently installing it on VMware Player, which seems to be working just fine. I looked up ways to fix this and immediately slammed my head against the wall. Then I got a Windows Protection Error so I couldn't load the hardware on my virtual 95, so I couldn't load the CD for Oregon Trail. It took me over an hour to figure out how to make this work, then finally I managed to get it all installed. Unfortunately Virtual PC doesn't list floppies in the GUI despite supporting them in the software because Microsoft is run by assholes, so I had to find a script to load the virtual disks and run it each time I wanted to change disks (14 in all). First I tried "finding" a virtual copy of the old Win95 floppy disks and using them on Virtual PC. I've spent about 3 hours on this today already. OK it seems I will be able to make it work finally. Preparing to throw something breakable against the wall in 3. This machine is PERFECTLY CAPABLE of running the game, it just REFUSES to.Īny ideas guys? I'm getting super-pissed-off here!ĮDIT: Confirmed that DosBox does not run it because it is a Windows program. If I can't get it to run I'll have to dig up an old computer somewhere to do it. I've had this CD since 1995, I have not been able to find a version available for download anywhere which works on newer operating systems, and this is one of my favorite games from my childhood. There HAS to be some way for me to get this fucking thing to work. I'm about to try DosBox but I think I remember trying it before and it not working because it's not a DOS program, it's a Windows version. I don't need this machine to do anything complicated, just open an application that isn't 64-bit. I don't need anything better than Windows 3.1, in fact. I have the option to use XP Mode in Virtual PC, it just doesn't boot properly. The thing is, according to the site I'm not even supposed to be allowed to download and install XP Mode on my computer, but somehow it let me do it anyway. (Worst reason I've ever heard of to not offer software for use). The only thing I was finally able to find after an hour of digging is that XP Mode is not supported on "Home" versions of Windows 7 because, according to them, non-business software might require hardware acceleration which doesn't work well in Virtual PC. There doesn't seem to be any support whatsoever available from Microsoft (big surprise there). The site let me download and install it fine, but when I try to actually turn on the virtual PC I just get a neverending load screen that occasionally tells me the BIOS is invalid. Finally I downloaded Windows Virtual PC and a copy of XP Mode, but I can't get XP mode to work. I tried every compatibility mode and it didn't work. It worked just fine on my old Vista machine, but it won't run at all on Windows 7. I have an old CD-ROM of Oregon Trail 1.2. I'm tearing my hair out here trying to do this.
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