Black Dahlia an awesome FMV adventure game for windows (1998)

Shoonay · 22 February 2014, 19:42

Read a review of this game today in an old mag, seems like a true gem, one of many PC games that I wanted to try back in the days but didn't have a PC and when I did I somehow forgot about it

http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/black-dahlia

Anyone knows what's the latest greatest way to run it on Windows 7 x64?

I mean I grabbed and installed the *cough*tpb*cough* version and it appears to already contain all the latest patches, so it run without any problems, the color pallete is OK, the movies got un-interlaced... although the resolution cannot be changed and looks awful on a 16:9 LCD and the looking around is a bit too fast, but seems fine for a first try.
Sucks it's not supported in ScummVM, that would solve the resolution problem.

McTrinsic · 22 February 2014, 21:08

Did you already try some Emulator Solution like VirtualPC?

Cheers,
McT

Shoonay · 22 February 2014, 21:25

What for? it works fine.

I'm asking for game-specific patches that would help me with the experience, like a full hd patch.

Like I said it's already running perfectly on W7 x64, it's got some old German patch that disables scanlines, fixes multiple cores and stuff like that.

But I'm completely new to this game, so maybe someone knows about some extra fixes?

amuleth · 23 February 2014, 01:36

Too bad it doesn't support DOS, at least you could try with DOSBox. I gave it a shot a couple of years ago on a XP system but I hate Myst style puzzle games (esp. Ripper), so I never tried to finish it.

Shoonay · 23 February 2014, 09:58

Well I heard some maniacs ran Windows 95 on it and I guess I could after that install the game on that, but that's just too much hassle since the game runs fine in it's native resolution.

So I guess no fans of the game here that know of any cool addons, ey?
Time for me to play the game the hard way. Oh yeah baby.

22 February 2014, 19:42	#1
Shoonay Global Caturator Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Porando Age: 43 Posts: 6,105	Black Dahlia an awesome FMV adventure game for windows (1998) Read a review of this game today in an old mag, seems like a true gem, one of many PC games that I wanted to try back in the days but didn't have a PC and when I did I somehow forgot about it http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/black-dahlia Anyone knows what's the latest greatest way to run it on Windows 7 x64? I mean I grabbed and installed the coughtpbcough version and it appears to already contain all the latest patches, so it run without any problems, the color pallete is OK, the movies got un-interlaced... although the resolution cannot be changed and looks awful on a 16:9 LCD and the looking around is a bit too fast, but seems fine for a first try. Sucks it's not supported in ScummVM, that would solve the resolution problem.

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22 February 2014, 21:08	#2
McTrinsic Registered User Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: Germany Posts: 527	Did you already try some Emulator Solution like VirtualPC? Cheers, McT

22 February 2014, 21:25	#3
Shoonay Global Caturator Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Porando Age: 43 Posts: 6,105	What for? it works fine. I'm asking for game-specific patches that would help me with the experience, like a full hd patch. Like I said it's already running perfectly on W7 x64, it's got some old German patch that disables scanlines, fixes multiple cores and stuff like that. But I'm completely new to this game, so maybe someone knows about some extra fixes?

23 February 2014, 01:36	#4
amuleth Registered User Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Karamoon Posts: 70	Too bad it doesn't support DOS, at least you could try with DOSBox. I gave it a shot a couple of years ago on a XP system but I hate Myst style puzzle games (esp. Ripper), so I never tried to finish it.

23 February 2014, 09:58	#5
Shoonay Global Caturator Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Porando Age: 43 Posts: 6,105	Well I heard some maniacs ran Windows 95 on it and I guess I could after that install the game on that, but that's just too much hassle since the game runs fine in it's native resolution. So I guess no fans of the game here that know of any cool addons, ey? Time for me to play the game the hard way. Oh yeah baby.

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