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Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic game website (1998)

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Re: Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic game website (1998)

#11

The notion of a "full size" screen shot has changed a bit in twenty years.

Well, it hasn't as that postage stamp was the full size of the asset.

The good old days when 800x600 was considered solid and 1024x768 luxurious

Re: Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic game website (1998)

#12

A remainder that the game can be played using ScummVM[1] [1]: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Starship_Titanic

It's also available for purchase on GOG despite not being listed as a place to buy it on the Starship Titanic site.

Re: Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic game website (1998)

#13

Clicking on "Mac version of Starship Titanic launches" leads to 404 not found. Edit: I'm not sure what OP's relationship to site is so maybe my post is useless.

It's a 26-year-old marketing site, so probably no changes coming, no.

Re: Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic game website (1998)

#14

Still have the original box and cds in the attic. Loved that game as a kid but was never able to finish it - similar to Grim Fandango in my memory.

I got almost to the end of Grim Fandango and it bugged and I couldn't find the thing the walk through said I should! It was very frustrating.

Re: Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic game website (1998)

#18

Clicking on "Mac version of Starship Titanic launches" leads to 404 not found. Edit: I'm not sure what OP's relationship to site is so maybe my post is useless.

It's a 26-year-old marketing site, so probably no changes coming, no.

> Does it work on XP?

> Yes! Or rather, yes, it works until you install Service Pack 2, which upgrades the Cinepak® Codec to a special non-working version. The solution is to download Cinepak version 1.10.0.11 from the wonderful folks at Providenza & Boekelheide, who wrote the codec in the first place. Copy the DLL from the zip file into the Starship Titanic program file folder, and you're done!

It's OLD alright. I never thought I'd see XP listed as the new bleeding edge option.

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