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5 OCT 2010 at 7:23pm

tiddler

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Hello all, I hope you can help me out.

I'm sorry if this topic has been covered somewhere but I have been unable to find it.

My wife has been an avid Nintendo DS gamer for some time now. I wanted to enhance her gaming by getting her a netbook for Christmas this year. I bought the HP Mini 210-1150. It's an N455 cpu netbook with 1Gb DDR3 ram and a 250Gb 7200rpm hard drive. Not too shabby I thought.

However I have had no luck trying to install any of the adventure games that I have that don't require a DVD to be in the drive. Of course the netbook has no DVD drive so that would be impossible. I tried Niburu, Paradise, and Return to Mysterious Island.

I have been tempted to download a game directly onto the netbook but I don't want to spend money on a game just to find out it won't work on the netbook.

If getting adventure games to work on a netbook is a serious technical undertaking, then she will not want to do it and the netbook will not get used. Maybe for reading her emails and a little surfing, but she really likes to play adventure games, puzzles, and things like Brain Age.

I'm on the verge of returning the netbook and giving up on this idea. Before I do I was wondering if I'm missing something. Is it possible to install some of the more popular adventure games on a netbook? Do I need to get an external DVD drive to do it? Is there a list of adventure and puzzle games that work on netbooks?

Is this a lost cause and I should return the netbook and give up?

Any help would be appreciated. :-?


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5 OCT 2010 at 7:49pm

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Hi Tiddler, sadly I'm not an expert on netbooks, but I think your post will catch more people's attention if you rather posted it onto the main forum, the one that says Adventure Game Discussion.  
Reason for that is, that most discussions get lumped in there, so many people who visit the forum only look there.

This sub-forum is mainly used for hints about games- you know, if people get stuck in a specific game, they would ask for help on it here.

You might be lucky and it might catch some attention down here, but I personally would simply have copied and pasted it into a new thread that you can make in the main discussion.  As you can see on that forum, there are many general kinds of discussions, just like this one going on there.

Good luck!  


EDIT: Ah, I see you posted on the tech forum too.  Well, that might be a better bet than this forum...  Hope you manage to find what you need!  

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5 OCT 2010 at 7:52pm

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Thanks for the suggestion. I'll do that.

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