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The Game of Life (1998) Anonymous Sun Jan 19 23:07:39 2020 No.6144171 [Reply] [Original]

Tonight has been nothing but absolute shit and all I want to do is play a 22 year old computer game

I've been trying to play the Game of Life (1998) and nothing has worked. It worked well on my laptop, once I got a few things on there everything was fine, besides the color, which corrected itself. Now when I play on the laptop, the color is fucked up again despite no changes being made. Anyway, so I tried it on my desktop so I could do netplay and nothing has worked.
I tried to run it in compatibility mode for Windows XP, 98, 95 and none of them worked
I tried using the vgVoodoo controller and it did nothing
I even went with some guy's registry entry and adjusted it all but not even that worked.
the game just fucking refuses to work and I've about had it, I just don't understand why nothing can be done for this game
Any suggestions I'm absolutely open to and any help whatsoever I'd appreciate. I hope you guys can understand, I just want to have fun, that's all I ask for

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 19 23:11:50 2020 No.6144180 I second this. Fuck, this takes me back.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 19 23:16:58 2020 No.6144189 I don't know what to tell you, the vgvoodoo thing makes it work on my machine. You could settle for emulating the ps1 version I guess?.

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Anonymous Sun Jan 19 23:18:43 2020 No.6144193

Oh I forgot to post it
Here's every resource I've used to figure this out
https://classicgamefixes.wixsite.com/home/game-of-life
https://www.old-games.com/download/6241/game-of-life
http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2.html
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Game_of_Life#Running_the_game_on_64-bit_Windows
Also here's what I'm trying to run this on, before anything I've got my old Dell Latitude I can run this perfectly on, but for netplay I'd prefer if this can get up and running well on Win 7 or 10
-i5 7500
-16gb RAM
-GTX 1060 GPU
-Windows 7-64bit

The 64-bit OS is probably the biggest problem since the game was made for x86 systems

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Anonymous Sun Jan 19 23:20:48 2020 No.6144196

>>6144189
I mean that's worst case scenario, and at the same time I could just stream it and play with friends that way, but I'd still like to give it a shot before giving up
How does it work with your system? You think I might be missing something in the install? I just dump the vgVoodoo exe where life.exe is and configure from there, nothing else really needed as far as I found

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 00:14:06 2020 No.6144252 >>6144171 Holy shit, this game is as old as me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 00:25:40 2020 No.6144264 >>6144171 Wow I forgot all about this game. It was definitely interesting when it came out.

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Anonymous Mon Jan 20 02:32:15 2020 No.6144408

>>6144193
>The 64-bit OS is probably the biggest problem since the game was made for x86 systems
windows has a compatibility layer (wow64), this isn't the problem
don't worry about vgVoodoo not working, I also installed it to run star wars racer but it does nothing

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 06:26:19 2020 No.6144651 >>6144193 I like the old games link I am surprised someone archived games like Cats, Monopoly and various other old-school stuff.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 06:35:33 2020 No.6144654 PCem will make it work but you seem really stupid, hopefully you can find the download link

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 08:00:43 2020 No.6144724 >>6144654 yeah obviously it will, but the point is it ought to work on modern hardware >>6144408 good to know, I don't understand what will get this to work now though

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 12:28:47 2020 No.6145037 I'm having a hard time with Galaga Destination Earth, but it works fine on XP. Perhaps these games have similar issues, I think both use DirectX7 which is pretty much depreciated on new PCs.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 13:01:04 2020 No.6145102 File: 2.59 MB, 854x480, retropc.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] embrace the retro pc lifestyle

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 15:25:23 2020 No.6145306 >>6145037 that could be another thing, though Life is on DirectX5

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 15:30:22 2020 No.6145317 >>6145306 >DirectX5 >Win10 OP! Go to Control Panel, Programs, Turn Windows Features On or Off. Look for "Legacy Components". Make sure DirectPlay is marked. Then try.

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Anonymous Mon Jan 20 15:47:47 2020 No.6145347

>>6145317
Thank you, this works well on Windows 10!
However, there's the issue of Windows 7
Here's my conclusion after all the input and trying to get this to work:
Works perfectly: 95, 98, 2000 (don't know why I bothered), XP
Needs a bit of tinkering: Vista, 7 32bit, 8, 10
Needs an entirely different program: 7 64bit

Alright now go enjoy the game
https://www.old-games.com/download/6241/game-of-life

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 21 12:55:20 2020 No.6146982 >>6145347 >https://www.old-games.com/download/6241/game-of-life That site has malware on it btw

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 21 13:00:58 2020 No.6146995 >>6145347 According to the internet, you can get DirectPlay going in Win7 as well, as long as you download the full June 2010 DirectX 9.0c release and install it, but I'm not 100% sure if this is correct or not.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 21 16:20:38 2020 No.6147645 >>6146982 >>6145347 https://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-game-of-life-dbr

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 21 16:43:12 2020 No.6147695 >>6144171 Is the PS1 version any similar? You can try that one instead

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 22 01:00:51 2020 No.6148641 >>6144252 GTFO zoomer