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[etsnyman]

Hi there!

So I have recently discovered Abandonia and I love it here! I just have no idea what the icons next to "compatibility" mean when viewing a game.

When I click on the icons, they all just take me to www.abandonia.com/en/programs and that has no overview of which icon means what.

Is there a link or a page which describes each icon?

Thanks so much!

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[arete]

I thought they had tooltips. Anyway, the little brown box refers to dosbox. I.e. You need dosbox to play it. Then there's a windows XP logo. That one should be obvious. And there's one for ScummVM, the programme that old LucasArts games run best on. I can't recall any others, unless it's windows 3.1 or 98. Hope this helps.

[etsnyman]

Hi arete

Thanks for the reply. Do you know what the little stiffy disk drive with the "C:\" means? Is that just a plain DOS game? Basically, will such a program only work with DosBox?

Thanks again for the help so far.

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[The Fifth Horseman]

This compatibility icon means it's been tested with the Abandonia Bootdisk. That's only really useful if you can't run DOSBox and have a floppy drive on your machine.

[etsnyman]

Hi, The Fifth Horseman

Thank you for the reply. I think I understand now enough in order to know whether I can run the games now. Between DosBox and XP, I think that covers most of the games.

I appreciate both your and arete's feedback. Thank you for the help.

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[arete]

Net 'n plesier.