anathoth8 wrote:Pidgeot wrote:Double-check that there is no DOS version on the disk - there should be one or more of INSTALL.BAT, INSTALL.EXE or one of the DOS SCI interpreters (most likely SCIHUDV.EXE here).
Wait, are you telling me that I
should have these files or that I shouldn't? What do I need to do with them?
You should have at least one of them if there's a DOS version included. The files I mentioned have names unique to the DOS versions, the Windows versions use different file names. (BTW, SIERRA.EXE is also a common name for the DOS interpreter.)
anathoth8 wrote:Well, without having both versions to compare, I don't know how I would go about doing that. Also, this is the 1995 deluxe version, and as far as I know, there was never a DOS version.
If by "1995 deluxe version" you mean the one with speech, it does exist for both DOS and Windows. I have it from the Roberta Williams Anthology, and I used to play it under DOS on my 3.1 machine. (EDIT: And no, I'm not mixing up the AGI version with the SCI/speech version!)
The way you would find out if they are identical, is by running
this small program that I've made (529KB).
To use the program, simply find the directory Mother Goose is installed to (if it's not installed, you can point it to the CD - but the program is quite slow, so I DON'T recommend doing so!), and click "Calculate result". Then copy/paste the results in a PM (or post them here, if you wish). I will compare your results to mine, and find out if the versions are identical that way. (A word of warning: The program will appear to freeze if it gets hidden behind another window. It won't respond until it's done calculating.)
For the record, you *will* need either VDMSound or DOSBox to play the DOS version under XP.