Harpy new year!

For years, I have tried to get Daggerfall to run on my newer machines,
after my last Windows 98 computer died. I have tried various versions
of DOSBox after it became available, on various machines, but to no
avail. On January 1, 2009 however, with DOSBox 0.72 on a WinXP
machine, it suddenly was remarkably easy. I did not change any
settings, just mounted a folder as the C drive and the CD as the D
drive, and installed using Install from the dos prompt rather than the
fancy installer that pops up when you set in the disk. I used minimum
install, copied all the files in the Arena2 folder over to the
corresponding folder on the C drive, changed the cdpath to C instead
of D in z.cfg, and ran FALL Z.CFG from the dos prompt. Suddenly,
everything was back the way I remembered from years ago. Amazing. Now
I remember why I loved this game better than its pretty sequels.
Obviously I made a Linguist as my first character. So, Harpy new year
to all of my old friends who are still alive! May you all have as
much luck as I.

And a Happy New Year to you, too!

I still watch the ole' newsgroup, but there hasn't been much activity.

Thanks for the tip!

Gary