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<p class="bigger purple"><b>Vista and Petz</b><br>
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</p>
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<p class="big green">Here's proof that all the P.F.Magic games, including
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Babyz and Oddballz, and the Studio Mythos Petz 5, can be run on a computer
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running VISTA (ugh). Below is a screenshot, taken after I had brought out
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one or more petz in all of: Dogz original, Catz original, Oddballz, Petz II,
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Petz 3, Petz 4, Babyz, and Petz 5. As with the picture on my "Pointless
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Info" page, the picture is completely un-edited; all that's been done is to
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reduce the size and save as jpg instead of bmp.</p>
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<p><img src="VistaAllGames.jpg" alt="All games at once on Vista"></p>
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<p class="big green">MyChi is having a well-earned meal in Dogz 1, Jiggles
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is enjoying a game with a "grubz" mouse in catz 1, Snowball is being cute in
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the basket while Frosty runs around in Petz II, Pouncer is carrying her
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half-full foodbowl around in Petz 3, Scamp is enjoying a rare moment of
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peace, happily kneading a cushion, in Petz 4, Scaredy and Fluffy are larking
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about and waiting for the mouse in Petz 5, Vistatest is not too sure about
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the jar of food in Babyz, and Caramba! is about to eat his Liqui-Food in
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Oddballz.</p>
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<p class="green">Most of these games were simply copied across from my
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machine, so we haven't done tests to see if all of the installation files
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work, but we have tested that it's possible to adopt new Pets in all the
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games.</p>
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<p class="green">The two games which were actually installed properly were:
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the Dogz 1 game, installed from the demo on Minibyte's site and then made
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into the full game with my fooler. Petz 4, installed from the 120-megabyte
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demo (available on my site and elsewhere on the net), then "fooled" using
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Nicholas' Petza and finally run with a Registry fix.</p>
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<p class="green">All of the games from Petz II onwards, including Babyz,
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need a registry fix and (in most cases, anyway) Nicholas' Petza; without
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those they will crash at some stage.</p>
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<p class="green">Oddballz we <b>think</b> needs to have the XP fix -- we
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didn't try it without. Oddballz, Catz 1 and Dogz 1 need files which go in
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the Windows and System directories and which you can find in my foolers. The
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only files which are not at present in my foolers are the WinG dlls which
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you may or may not already have. If you get error messages about missing
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files with Wing in the name, you can grab them from <a
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href="WingDLLs.zip">here (click)</a>. Unzip them into your System or
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System32 directories.</p>
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<p class="green">You can get the Registry fixes for Petz II, Petz 3 and petz
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4 <a href="Petz234Registry.zip">here (click)</a>. Unzip them and then
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double-click on whichever reg file is for your game. You may wish to open
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the reg file in Notepad first and change all the places where you see, say,
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D:\\Games\\Petz3 to C:\\Program Files\\P.F.Magic\\Petz 3 or wherever you
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actually installed the game. You can get the Registry fix for Petz 5 <a
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href="Petz5Registry.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
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-- but you may wish first to open it in Notepad and, wherever you see
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D:\\Games\\Petz5\\ change it to, say, C:\\Program Files\\UBI Soft\\Studio
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Mythos\\Petz 5\\ or wherever you installed the game. And finally, Babyz
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players can get their registry fix <a href="BabyzRegistry.zip">here
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(click)</a>. Unzip it and move the Keys folder into your game's Resource
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folder, then double-click on the reg file -- but you may wish first to open
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it in Notepad and, wherever you see D:\\Games\\babyznew\\ change it to, say,
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C:\\Program Files\\Mindscape\\Babyz or wherever you installed the game.</p>
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<p class="green">A note for those who are interested -- this was done on a
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machine with Pentium D CPU 2.80 GHz processors and 2.00 GB of Ram, under
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Vista Ultimate.</p>
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