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Dragon's Eye
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User
I have owned the Dragon's Eye game for many many years and love it. Mah-Jongg is a fantastic game and this edition has an Alphabet tile set which makes it easier to play. I have had my grandchildren playing this at age 3. Now everytime they come over it is the first thing they want to do. My husband is color blind and the large letters make this one of the few games he can play.
Runs just fine on XP SP3 and probably on Vista
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User
I finally spent some time trying to get this EXCELLENT game running on Windows XP. The auto-installer bombs out immediately, and the setup.exe files suggests that the game will only run in 8-bit mode (something that few people will tolerate since all other programs will look terrible). Most modern graphics cards don't go gladly into 8-bit mode anyway. BUt they will, and that's the trick.
ALL THAT IS REQUIRED IS THAT YOU GET THE GRAPHICS INTO 8-bit MODE FOR THE INSTALL.
Instructions for XP SP3:
Step 1: Use "My Computer" to find the Shanghai CD in your CD drive. Open the SH2DE folder and look for an application called SETUP.EXE. You may not be set up to see the ".EXE" part of the name, so just look for the "application" called SETUP.
Step 2: Now get your graphics card into 8-bit mode. Right click on empty desktop and choose Properties from the drop down). Choose the SETTINGS tab. If the Color Quality choices include 8-bit or "low" of "256", choose that. Otherwise, click the button marked ADVANCED. Click the ADAPTER tab. Click the "LIST ALL MODES" button. Write down the current selection (you will come back here in step 4 and choose this). Scroll up intil you see a similar resolution with 256 colors. Choose that. Hit "OK" until all the windows close. You will get an AWFUL color display. Accept it for the moment.
Step 3: Double click on the SETUP program from step 1. THis will install Shanghai.
Step 4: Repeat Step 2, but choose your original resolution and color selection, and hit OK until it's done. Shanghai runs just fine with 16-bit, 24-bit or 32-bit color. The stupid install program doesn't know that, but we're now past that, forever
Step 5: Enjoy a great game.
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