![]() Here is the path where you will likely find it. “Where did Windows 7 hide my saves?” How many times have we heard that question? The answer for this version of the game on my system is DEEP! Open Windows Explorer and it is a mere NINE clicks. Now for the hard part finding your saves. To allow old saves to work you will need to use the same name when you played the game that generated those old saves, or rename the saves to match the present nomenclature. The last three Tex games require you at start up to type in the player’s name. I normally keep my game saves in a folder even after having uninstalled a game I was curious to discover if my old saves will work in the G.O.G. Finally, clicking on the combine button brings up thumbnail pictures of the items in your inventory allowing you to use items on one another to create new items. Some of the items will contain puzzles which you solve when using the examine button. Some items can be manipulated, such as getting the contents from a wallet, envelope, etc. The examine button brings up a close-up view of the selected item. In order to use an item select an object from the list click on the use button. The inventory appears as a list of items on the top right section of the screen. A second click of the space bar returns to interactive mode where you use standard left and right mouse clicks to look talk pickup etc. The arrow keys allow Tex to look up or down which is needed to look into drawers under beds etc. Movement is done by moving the mouse forward, back right, left. When movement is required push the space bar once to engage movement mode. The game is played in the first person with plenty of third person perspective on plenty of full motion video scenes. All three games, UAKM, Pandora Directive and Overseer use the same interface and game engine. I will start with a shameless cut and paste of another Tex Murphy review I wrote. To make a long story short the new version played seamlessly without all the frustrating set up the old disc require. Once installed all you need to do is click the desktop icon and you are instantly into the world of Tex Murphy. There are no activation codes, no permissions and no disc. Once you complete your download you never have to visit the internet regarding this game again. As with all that company’s games they are DRM free fully burnable to a disc and yours forever. You can disregard all of the above setup requirements by simply purchasing the G.O.G release for ten bucks. These programs simply allow your newer machine to play the games.įinally we get to the purpose of this review, the recent G.O.G reissue of Under a Killing Moon. You still have to have the disc in the drive and swap disc when required. There are several front ends D-Fend is the one I tried and it works for me. There is no need to mount drives and type lines of dos commands to initiate the game. When you wish to play just open D-Fend and click on the game icon. Using that program you can install any Dos game which becomes linked to D-Fend. With Dosbox installed D-Fend will control it for you issuing the commands automatically. For my Windows 7 64 bit system I used a program named D-Fend Reloaded found on that Dosbox site. There may be a few out there who don’t know about this amazing series.įor those of you unfamiliar with Dosbox and hesitate to attempt dealing with dos commands and have paused to dig out those old disc check their free download here Dosbox There are additional tools called front ends making the process much easier. It is nearly twenty years since this game ruled the gaming scene. I will present a brief outline below for those who do are not familiar. ![]() For most gamers no introduction to the story is needed we all know who Tex is and how the story goes. I had avoided reviewing this game for that reason. There is no shortage of Tex Murphy reviews on the net. ![]() Without describing the Dosbox process let it suffice to say with XP the game ran flawlessly. I cannot point you to them because when something fails to perform I toss the link. Several UAKM installers available on the net failed to work on my system. ![]() On my previous Windows XP configuration the game ran well using Dosbox. As many Adventure Gamers learned getting it to run on newer machines is problematic. This game was initially released in 1994 on four Cds with full motion video with requirements noted above. PC Requirements: 386/25, 4 MB, SVGA VESA, CD-ROM, - sound card, mouse. Under a Killing Moon, Access Software 1994, Reissue G.O.G 2011
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