Jim Henderson wrote:
> I played the first two, don't think I played Exile.  The Mechanical age 
> was fun for me, though I also liked Channelwood a lot.
> 
> I also have to admit I liked the bit in Riven with the roller-coaster 
> like bit.

You'd love exile.

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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:00:21 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I played the first two, don't think I played Exile.  The Mechanical age
>> was fun for me, though I also liked Channelwood a lot.
>> 
>> I also have to admit I liked the bit in Riven with the roller-coaster
>> like bit.
> 
> You'd love exile.

I'll have to find myself a copy, after I see if it runs under WINE. :-)

Jim

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Jim Henderson wrote:
> I'll have to find myself a copy, after I see if it runs under WINE. :-)

I'd send you a copy of mine for evaluation purposes, but it's copy 
protected. If you want to try it out and you want to (say) download a CD 
crack, I can send you (say) the first two of four disks, and you can see 
if it runs under your system. Then you can track down a legal copy if it 
works for you. (I don't think there's a demo out.)

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     It's not feature creep if you put it
     at the end and adjust the release date.

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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:55:17 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I'll have to find myself a copy, after I see if it runs under WINE. :-)
> 
> I'd send you a copy of mine for evaluation purposes, but it's copy
> protected. If you want to try it out and you want to (say) download a CD
> crack, I can send you (say) the first two of four disks, and you can see
> if it runs under your system. Then you can track down a legal copy if it
> works for you. (I don't think there's a demo out.)

I'll take that offer under consideration - there might be some info on 
Cedega about it, and worst case, my kid's got a Windows PC and I could 
buy it for him and then fiddle with it. :-)

Jim

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"Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:55:17 -0800, Darren New wrote:
>
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> I'll have to find myself a copy, after I see if it runs under WINE. :-)
>>
>> I'd send you a copy of mine for evaluation purposes, but it's copy
>> protected. If you want to try it out and you want to (say) download a CD
>> crack, I can send you (say) the first two of four disks, and you can see
>> if it runs under your system. Then you can track down a legal copy if it
>> works for you. (I don't think there's a demo out.)
>
> I'll take that offer under consideration - there might be some info on
> Cedega about it, and worst case, my kid's got a Windows PC and I could
> buy it for him and then fiddle with it. :-)
>
> Jim

Now that I think of it, maybe my Riven discs are OK still. Because for what 
it's worth, I tried Riven briefly in Wine a few months back (maybe a year 
ago) without success. I didn't really try hard though. I'm willing to give 
it a shot again.

also, http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=1820 
looks like Exile works well as of Spring of this year. Riven looks promising 
too, I never tried anything listed on it's help page.

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Ross escribió:
> Now that I think of it, maybe my Riven discs are OK still.

I have Riven on a DVD; I can imagine the CD swapping gets annoying :)

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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:14:54 -0500, Ross wrote:

> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message
> news:47605b79$1@news.povray.org...
>> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:55:17 -0800, Darren New wrote:
>>
>>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>> I'll have to find myself a copy, after I see if it runs under WINE.
>>>> :-)
>>>
>>> I'd send you a copy of mine for evaluation purposes, but it's copy
>>> protected. If you want to try it out and you want to (say) download a
>>> CD crack, I can send you (say) the first two of four disks, and you
>>> can see if it runs under your system. Then you can track down a legal
>>> copy if it works for you. (I don't think there's a demo out.)
>>
>> I'll take that offer under consideration - there might be some info on
>> Cedega about it, and worst case, my kid's got a Windows PC and I could
>> buy it for him and then fiddle with it. :-)
>>
>> Jim
> 
> Now that I think of it, maybe my Riven discs are OK still. Because for
> what it's worth, I tried Riven briefly in Wine a few months back (maybe
> a year ago) without success. I didn't really try hard though. I'm
> willing to give it a shot again.
> 
> also, http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=1820
> looks like Exile works well as of Spring of this year. Riven looks
> promising too, I never tried anything listed on it's help page.

Cool, that's good to know, thanks.

Jim

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> I have Riven on a DVD; I can imagine the CD swapping gets annoying :)

It's not too bad. There are six islands. Prison island and age 213 (or 
whatever it's called) are on one disk, and each of the other islands are 
on another disk.

Hence, you really only change disks at the end of a ride or while 
crossing a really long bridge. It's only *annoying* when you click "go 
there" and then realize you forgot to do something and want to go back. ;-)

I was also under the impression there were unofficial ways of putting 
all the content on your HD, but I don't think I ever bothered.

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In article <47607804$1@news.povray.org>, dne### [at] sanrrcom says...
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> > I have Riven on a DVD; I can imagine the CD swapping gets annoying :)
> 
> It's not too bad. There are six islands. Prison island and age 213 (or 
> whatever it's called) are on one disk, and each of the other islands are
 
> on another disk.
> 
> Hence, you really only change disks at the end of a ride or while 
> crossing a really long bridge. It's only *annoying* when you click "go 
> there" and then realize you forgot to do something and want to go back. ;
-)
> 
> I was also under the impression there were unofficial ways of putting 
> all the content on your HD, but I don't think I ever bothered.
> 
Easiest way under Windows, and probably Linux and WINE too, is to use 
something like DaemonTools. Make an ISO image of the disk(s), then set 
of the tools to support as many virtual CD drives as you need, and 
assign them to the ISO images. Never had the disk space for it, and 
finding something that *can* make an ISO from most of the damn CDs they 
make now is a bit hard, since a lot of them have bloody encryption on 
them. DaemonTools will emulate some of the scemes needed to "read" an 
ISO that has been encoded with them, but you "still" have to get the ISO 
on the drive somehow.

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> In article <47607804$1@news.povray.org>, dne### [at] sanrrcom says...
>> I was also under the impression there were unofficial ways of putting 
>> all the content on your HD, but I don't think I ever bothered.
>>
> Easiest way under Windows, and probably Linux and WINE too, is to use 
> something like DaemonTools. Make an ISO image of the disk(s), then set 
> of the tools to support as many virtual CD drives as you need, and 
> assign them to the ISO images. Never had the disk space for it, and 
> finding something that *can* make an ISO from most of the damn CDs they 
> make now is a bit hard, since a lot of them have bloody encryption on 
> them. DaemonTools will emulate some of the scemes needed to "read" an 
> ISO that has been encoded with them, but you "still" have to get the ISO 
> on the drive somehow.
> 

Well, for Riven, you can just copy the .MHK files from all disks into 
your Data directory. In fact, you could "build yourself a DVD version". 
I think you need to edit one .ini file that maps datafiles to discs, and 
disc numbers to disc labels.

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