DHTML Lemmings port

[pctech]

Found this a while back

http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/

To get the original music though you need to run it in IE.

[Technical Ben]

Or FireLemingFox.

[pctech]

That's interesting Ben as can't get the sound to work at all in FF.

[Lona]

I completed the whole games twenty years ago.

[pctech]

I used to have the DOS version.

[Lona]

I used to have the DOS version.

It was the dos version I played. I used to have to get my hubby to set it up for me as I didn't have a clue how to work a pc.  Played it on an old IBM 286.

[esh]

Lemmings 2 was epic, but my (legit) copy won't run properly any more because of copy protection that only works with some obscure 16-bit assembly commands and I can't be arsed to set up a whole PC for DOS with soundcard and drivers right now. Argh!

[Technical Ben]

I thought the main problem is 16 bits installers are not supported anymore? Or is it not a windows installer?

[pctech]

16-bit stuff definitely won't run on 64-bit Windows as there is no 16-bit thunking support but may do on 32-bit.

[Technical Ben]

16-bit stuff definitely won't run on 64-bit Windows as there is no 16-bit thunking support but may do on 32-bit.

I thought that was a typo. It's not.  

[pctech]

Nope it's definitely known as thunking

[Technical Ben]

That's what I meant.

[pctech]

I know and I thought the same as you the first time I saw the term 

[esh]

I thought the main problem is 16 bits installers are not supported anymore? Or is it not a windows installer?

It's most definitely pre-windows

It uses some low-level ASM to access floppy disk sectors directly as a form of copy protection. Since Windows doesn't emulate these, no luck.

[Technical Ben]

I was told, an old way to copy protect your own Floppies was to swap over the two wires. So 1s were written as 0s and visa versa. No idea if it was a joke, or true.