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<title>Just for laughs -- Vista and Petz</title>
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<b>Vista and Petz</b><br />
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<p class="big green">
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Here's proof that all the P.F.Magic games, including Babyz and Oddballz,
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and the Studio Mythos Petz 5, can be run on a computer running VISTA
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(ugh). Below is a screenshot, taken after I had brought out one or more
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petz in all of: Dogz original, Catz original, Oddballz, Petz II, Petz 3,
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Petz 4, Babyz, and Petz 5. As with the picture on my "Pointless Info"
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page, the picture is completely un-edited; all that's been done is to
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reduce the size and save as jpg instead of bmp.
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</p>
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<p><img src="VistaAllGames.jpg" alt="All games at once on Vista" /></p>
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<p class="big green">
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MyChi is having a well-earned meal in Dogz 1, Jiggles is enjoying a game
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with a "grubz" mouse in catz 1, Snowball is being cute in the basket
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while Frosty runs around in Petz II, Pouncer is carrying her half-full
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foodbowl around in Petz 3, Scamp is enjoying a rare moment of peace,
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happily kneading a cushion, in Petz 4, Scaredy and Fluffy are larking
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about and waiting for the mouse in Petz 5, Vistatest is not too sure
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about the jar of food in Babyz, and Caramba! is about to eat his
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Liqui-Food in Oddballz.
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<p class="green">
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Most of these games were simply copied across from my machine, so we
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haven't done tests to see if all of the installation files work, but we
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have tested that it's possible to adopt new Pets in all the games.
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</p>
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<p class="green">
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The two games which were actually installed properly were: the Dogz 1
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game, installed from the demo on Minibyte's site and then made into the
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full game with my fooler. Petz 4, installed from the 120-megabyte demo
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(available on my site and elsewhere on the net), then "fooled" using
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Nicholas' Petza and finally run with a Registry fix.
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<p class="green">
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All of the games from Petz II onwards, including Babyz, need a registry
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fix and (in most cases, anyway) Nicholas' Petza; without those they will
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crash at some stage.
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<p class="green">
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Oddballz we <b>think</b> needs to have the XP fix -- we didn't try it
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without. Oddballz, Catz 1 and Dogz 1 need files which go in the Windows
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and System directories and which you can find in my foolers. The only
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files which are not at present in my foolers are the WinG dlls which you
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may or may not already have. If you get error messages about missing
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files with Wing in the name, you can grab them from
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<a href="WingDLLs.zip">here (click)</a>. Unzip them into your System or
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System32 directories.
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</p>
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You can get the Registry fixes for Petz II, Petz 3 and petz 4
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<a href="Petz234Registry.zip">here (click)</a>. Unzip them and then
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double-click on whichever reg file is for your game. You may wish to
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open the reg file in Notepad first and change all the places where you
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see, say, D:\\Games\\Petz3 to C:\\Program Files\\P.F.Magic\\Petz 3 or
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wherever you actually installed the game. You can get the Registry fix
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for Petz 5 <a href="Petz5Registry.zip">here (click)</a>. Unzip it and
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move the Keys folder into your game's Resource folder, then double-click
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on the reg file -- but you may wish first to open it in Notepad and,
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wherever you see D:\\Games\\Petz5\\ change it to, say, C:\\Program
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Files\\UBI Soft\\Studio Mythos\\Petz 5\\ or wherever you installed the
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game. And finally, Babyz players can get their registry fix
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<a href="BabyzRegistry.zip">here (click)</a>. Unzip it and move the Keys
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folder into your game's Resource folder, then double-click on the reg
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file -- but you may wish first to open it in Notepad and, wherever you
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see D:\\Games\\babyznew\\ change it to, say, C:\\Program
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Files\\Mindscape\\Babyz or wherever you installed the game.
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</p>
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<p class="green">
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A note for those who are interested -- this was done on a machine with
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Pentium D CPU 2.80 GHz processors and 2.00 GB of Ram, under Vista
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Ultimate.
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