Originally Posted By InlandAZ (23 JUN 2007 4:34am)
I replayed this some time ago under VPC (Win 95) - enjoyed it as much as I did the first time. Well almost - VPC does have a small issue with it, but it is playable.

On the subject of short games, have you ever played through D?  

OSBox 0.64 and above provide the odd ball VESA support that allows the game to be played under XP.  And it is... well... short.  Actually it's timed.

Great game however, lots of atmosphere - give it a shot.

I hadn't paid much attention to D because I was under the impression that it fell into the survival horror genre, and those games are usually too gory for me.

Originally Posted By SirDave (23 JUN 2007 11:34pm)
FWIW: Starting on p.23 of the Jan/Feb 2007 issue of Adventure Lantern, I talk about running several old games including Amber (with a little background as well on the games). Available for free here:

http://www.adventurelantern.com/Magazine/Index.htm

Originally Posted By InlandAZ (24 JUN 2007 5:32pm)

Originally Posted By SirDave (23 JUN 2007 11:34pm)
FWIW: Starting on p.23 of the Jan/Feb 2007 issue of Adventure Lantern, I talk about running several old games including Amber (with a little background as well on the games). Available for free here:

http://www.adventurelantern.com/Magazine/Index.htm

I did read it, good write up.  

Originally Posted By shadow9d9 (23 JUN 2007 4:26pm)
My wife and I were amused at the beginning, but around the ice lake section, became turned off to the game.... We just stopped playing it... WAYYY overrated imo.

Originally Posted By SirDave (24 JUN 2007 7:37pm)

Originally Posted By InlandAZ (24 JUN 2007 5:32pm)

Originally Posted By SirDave (23 JUN 2007 11:34pm)
FWIW: Starting on p.23 of the Jan/Feb 2007 issue of Adventure Lantern, I talk about running several old games including Amber (with a little background as well on the games). Available for free here:

http://www.adventurelantern.com/Magazine/Index.htm

I did read it, good write up.  

Thanks Inland. However, sometimes (as in this case) I'm not really trying to push my 'play old games with old Win98 laptops theory' (much as it has worked for me). It's more that when someone brings up a game like Amber, it's sometimes nice for them to read almost anything about it since there is very little mentioned in any detail about those games now. Usually in my articles, I try to add some interesting background to fire up people's interest in these old games. That's what really fires me up to write these articles.

Amber was really very simply put together and used that very basic Quicktime/Macromedia combo- almost exactly the same as Secrets of the Luxor with the same resultant incompatibility with newer systems. Plus, its graphics were pretty bland compared to Myst and, especially, Riven which was soon to come. Still it was a nice pure little adventure game and a real labor of love by its authors, Frank & Susan Wimmer, not to mention unfairly underated in the past as an awful Myst clone.