le717 Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 I will not explain the issues LEGO Island has when running in modern PC, you know it already. So I'll just cut to the chase. While searching for any info I could find about Voodoo cards and Direct 3D HAL on modern PCs, I came across this Wikipedia article, which had some interesting info on Voodoo cards and the Glide API. The article then lead me here: a site listing a bunch of Glide API wrappers for modern PCs, allowing the old games to be played without a Voodoo card. I've looked at all of them, and the most promising one is nGlide, a wrapper that is still being supported. It even lists Windows 8 as a supported system. I haven't downloaded anything, but I thought I should report it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noghiri Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 I'm feeling bored this morning; I'll dig out my old copy of Island and mess around with it, and see if I can get it to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tfishell Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 I will not explain the issues LEGO Island has when running in modern PC, you know it already. So I'll just cut to the chase. While searching for any info I could find about Voodoo cards and Direct 3D HAL on modern PCs, I came across this Wikipedia article, which had some interesting info on Voodoo cards and the Glide API. The article then lead me here: a site listing a bunch of Glide API wrappers for modern PCs, allowing the old games to be played without a Voodoo card. I've looked at all of them, and the most promising one is nGlide, a wrapper that is still being supported. It even lists Windows 8 as a supported system. I haven't downloaded anything, but I thought I should report it. Sadly, I don't think Lego Island supports Glide. (This might be relevant: http://www.zeus-software.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=434&p=1745) "The game seems to use the D3DRM.DLL. Apparently it's an old and almost never used ('LEGO Island' comes to my mind) method called the 'Retainend Mode'. Likewise, http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=32958: "Lego Island is Direct3D." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobExplorien Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 The game seems to use the D3DRM.DLL That file was decisive for me to actually get the game to start up, although via this topic I came across this file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitawrap Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 Does this means you can fix the game AND actually edit the game as your wishes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McJobless Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Does this means you can fix the game AND actually edit the game as your wishes?Could you explain to me how you thought that might be possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWK Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 I got the game to work on my brothers Windows 7 laptop,I opened up the CD files and found INSTALL.EXE and i just ran in compatibility mode with windows 95,after installing i ran autorun,and went to configure,then i opened the advanced tab err button or whatever it is,and there is a list,by default it should say Direct3D HAL,make it anything except D3D Hal,and the game worked fine,it did randomly crash one time while i was in the police station messing around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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