2023-06-09 19:44:50 -07:00
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<b>Vista and Petz</b><br>
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Here's proof that all the P.F.Magic games, including Babyz and Oddballz, and the Studio Mythos Petz 5, can be
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run on a computer running VISTA (ugh). Below is a screenshot, taken after I had brought out one or more petz in
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all of: Dogz original, Catz original, Oddballz, Petz II, Petz 3, Petz 4, Babyz, and Petz 5. As with the picture
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on my "Pointless Info" page, the picture is completely un-edited; all that's been done is to reduce the size and
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save as jpg instead of bmp.
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2023-06-09 20:38:15 -07:00
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<img src="img/justforlaughs2_VistaAllGames.jpg" alt="All games at once on Vista">
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2023-06-09 19:44:50 -07:00
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MyChi is having a well-earned meal in Dogz 1, Jiggles is enjoying a game with a "grubz" mouse in catz 1,
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Snowball is being cute in the basket while Frosty runs around in Petz II, Pouncer is carrying her half-full
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foodbowl around in Petz 3, Scamp is enjoying a rare moment of peace, happily kneading a cushion, in Petz 4,
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Scaredy and Fluffy are larking about and waiting for the mouse in Petz 5, Vistatest is not too sure about the
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jar of food in Babyz, and Caramba! is about to eat his Liqui-Food in Oddballz.
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Most of these games were simply copied across from my machine, so we haven't done tests to see if all of the
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installation files work, but we have tested that it's possible to adopt new Pets in all the games.
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The two games which were actually installed properly were: the Dogz 1 game, installed from the demo on
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Minibyte's site and then made into the full game with my fooler. Petz 4, installed from the 120-megabyte demo
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(available on my site and elsewhere on the net), then "fooled" using Nicholas' Petza and finally run with a
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Registry fix.
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All of the games from Petz II onwards, including Babyz, need a registry fix and (in most cases, anyway)
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Nicholas' Petza; without those they will crash at some stage.
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Oddballz we <b>think</b> needs to have the XP fix -- we didn't try it without. Oddballz, Catz 1 and Dogz 1 need
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files which go in the Windows and System directories and which you can find in my foolers. The only files which
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are not at present in my foolers are the WinG dlls which you may or may not already have. If you get error
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messages about missing files with Wing in the name, you can grab them from
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<a href="dl/justforlaughs2_WingDLLs.zip">here (click)</a>. Unzip them into your System or System32 directories.
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You can get the Registry fixes for Petz II, Petz 3 and petz 4
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<a href="dl/justforlaughs2_Petz234Registry.zip">here (click)</a>. Unzip them and then double-click on whichever
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reg file is for your game. You may wish to open the reg file in Notepad first and change all the places where
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you see, say, D:\\Games\\Petz3 to C:\\Program Files\\P.F.Magic\\Petz 3 or wherever you actually installed the
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game. You can get the Registry fix for Petz 5 <a href="dl/justforlaughs2_Petz5Registry.zip">here (click)</a>.
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Unzip it and move the Keys folder into your game's Resource folder, then double-click on the reg file -- but you
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may wish first to open it in Notepad and, wherever you see D:\\Games\\Petz5\\ change it to, say, C:\\Program
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Files\\UBI Soft\\Studio Mythos\\Petz 5\\ or wherever you installed the game. And finally, Babyz players can get
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their registry fix <a href="dl/justforlaughs2_BabyzRegistry.zip">here (click)</a>. Unzip it and move the Keys
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folder into your game's Resource folder, then double-click on the reg file -- but you may wish first to open it
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in Notepad and, wherever you see D:\\Games\\babyznew\\ change it to, say, C:\\Program Files\\Mindscape\\Babyz or
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wherever you installed the game.
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A note for those who are interested -- this was done on a machine with Pentium D CPU 2.80 GHz processors and
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2.00 GB of Ram, under Vista Ultimate.
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