{"id":999,"date":"2016-06-19T22:15:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T05:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=999"},"modified":"2016-07-11T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T16:00:00","slug":"dungeon-keeper-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=999","title":{"rendered":"Dungeon Keeper II"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve started playing Dungeon Keeper II again. I looked into it, and you don’t have to run it on a DOS emulator anymore (yay), because GOG Games<\/a> apparently buys up old abandonware and keeps it current so it can run on modern systems. I recall that before, even from GOG Games, DKII would crash constantly and was absolutely unplayable. Plus they had a patch to update it to the “latest” version of the game, which also happened to prevent Dark Angels from spawning. Ugh. So I had given up on that for a while.<\/p>\n

For whatever reason, I looked into it again this weekend, and found that from GOG Games it is now only $2.39 to buy DKII; plus, I saw in the comments that the game supposedly was updated to run on Windows 7 and Windows 8. At that price, I figured, what the heck. I’ll buy it and see if what they say is true. I wouldn’t mind being out $2.39 if it was still completely unplayable.<\/p>\n

So I bought it, and it took a minor bit of tweaking around to get it running on Windows 10 (which nobody claimed it could run on, so this is not surprising), but it wasn’t too bad. Pretty much all I had to do was enable DirectPlay on Windows 10, which you do in Programs and Features by enabling “Legacy Components” in the list of Windows Features to turn on\/off, and then enabling “DirectPlay” in the drop-down menu under “Legacy Components.” Et voila!<\/p>\n

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