Monkey Island (Point and Click adventure game)

binge · Emo Kiddy Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Karma :

Okay, so when I was about 3 or 4 (1991/92) we got our first family computer. It was an Amiga 600.

My favorite game(s) while growing up, were the Secret of Monkey Island, and LeChuck's revenge. I would play them of an evening with my Dad. Fantastic memories. Razz

Moving on to about 1997, I bought CMI (The Curse of Monkey Island) on CD-ROM, and completed it.

Since then, I've always re-downloaded the first two games for my PC, and just flown through them, just to reminisce.
I played these by running them via a DOS-BOX (A friend showed me how to do this), and I had a folder with about 100 classic Amiga games in it. Good times.

I remember getting a copy of EMI (Escape from Monkey Island) a few years ago, and having a blast on it. I got quite a way into the game, and kinda gave up. I'd like to play it again.

I've tried to download it online, but I can only find it as a 'Binary file', which I do not understand.
I've found it on CD-ROM for under a tenner delivered, but it says for Win 95/98. Will it work with my laptop, which is on Windows 7?

I'm a little behind on modern PC technology now. But I really do need my fix of the ScummBar adventure game. Razz

Frost · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 May 2004 Karma :

You can usually run older games in windows compatibility mode. This will make windows run it like 95/98 would. That binary file will be an executable you should be able to run directly. It may however need to be run from command like. I think there is a windows option for this somewhere in the right click compatibility settings.

CaNsA · Super Spammer Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Karma :

https://www.dosbox.com/

Philly46 · Spanner Monkey Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Karma :

I'm sure I've got a disc kicking about here which has all the Monkey Island games on. I'll see if I can find it tomorrow and test it on Win7.
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Philly46 · Spanner Monkey Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Karma :

Or there's this...

https://pirateproxy.net/torrent/5789697/Monkey_Island_Collection_%28Windows_7_Ready%29_Eqa5cro
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Benson_JV · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 May 2010 Karma :

Do it proper, get another Amiga/Atari Mr. Green

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P.addy · Red Rocket Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Karma :

If you are free for about 10 minutes one evering, I'll show you how to use .bin stuff, you'll find it so simple.

It will work in dosbox Thumbs Up

binge · Emo Kiddy Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Karma :

Okay didnt realise binary files were for dosbox. CMI is not an Amiga game thats why. It was on the PC.
Will give you a shout tonight Paddy.

spit1972 · Nova Slayer Joined: 03 Dec 2010 Karma :

Have you tried scumm vm 1.5.0 ?
i downloaded a pack with games some time ago.

It had 4 of the Monkey island games on,seem to work for me Smile

Jefr0 · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Karma :

I grew up playing The secret of monkey island too, good game Cool

Did you know there's an app for the game, exactly the same as Amiga version Thumbs Up

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binge · Emo Kiddy Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Karma :

Tried the Scumm VM, didn't get very far.

Think I'll just buy EMI on CD-ROM if it'll play in my laptop.

JeFr0, I agree, best game ever. Got the app for MI1 on my phone, but it's quite hard on such a small scale. Laughing