Gameware Studio Diary

Blasts from the past...

One of the questions that regularly comes up on the Gameware Forums is "How do I get Creatures (insert version here) to work on Windows XP". It's an age old problem with software. And some of the software seems an age old! Take for instance the original Creatures, early versions of which ran under DOS, whereas the release version ran on Windows 3.1 as well as the then new Windows 95!

I know that work-arounds exist, but the end result was, well, a little rough. So we've bitten the bullet and taking the decision to make sure that all of the Creatures series work on the latest operating systems!

The picture shows a freshly installed Creatures 1 running happily on Windows XP with a 32 bit colour depth. Okay, so the game may still be 256 colours, but it looks pretty good!

Now where is that Creatures 2 source�



Creatures running on Windows XP!