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I remember Qwerty, TEK_Xacto, Box Designs, Paul_7, Burner, Rocket. I did eventually find that manually installing DirectPlay (it’s in Control Panel\Programs & Features\Turn Windows Features On or Off\Legacy Components) rectifies the error, and the games will launch…but compared to Win7, there are weird performance issues, so Win7 will stay.ĭude! I was totally part of this MM1&2 Community back in the day! Win10 for everything, but Win7 for my beloved games. I made a new partition and installed 7 in a dual-boot config. Midtown.exe and Midtown2.exe both error on launch with: The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000022). Lo and behold, the first Windows OS that I can’t make these games work on.
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I recently upgraded the Windows 7 install on my ThinkPad W520 to Windows 10, and almost compulsively, I dug out those familiar files from my oldest external hard drive, containing the game files and all the add-on Zips I downloaded so many years ago. Even if that was the only time I’d run the game for a 3 year period, I made sure they would work so I could play at will. Through all those changes, though…across all those OS, Win95-98-ME-2k-XP-XP64-7…there was one configuration constant: my number one priority from the first moment of use was making sure that Midtown Madness 1 and 2 would work. Eventually, the Dell was replaced by my current ThinkPad W520 (Sandy Bridge i7), and later I built a Sandy Bridge i5 desktop to complement the ThinkPad. My love of cars driven on computers shifted to cars driven on asphalt. During the life of the Sempron box, I picked up a laptop (Inspiron 630m, Pentium M) and maintaining my desktop PC lost any sort of priority as my focus shifted to college studies. The AthlonXP was replaced by a Sempron 2800. The Pentium II was replaced with an AthlonXP.
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Long live Sneakernet!Įventually, the Pentium Pro box was replaced with a Pentium II. Even today, those experiences make me keep floppies on the mental radar as a valid means of moving data, even though it’s totally irrational.
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I learned how to create spanned zip files so I could get those files on those disks. I invested in my own box of floppy disks – yes, floppy disks – to transport all those downloaded Zips from her computer to my own. I spent hours browsing the content created by so many people, downloading the smaller files on my 56k and paying a visit to my aunt with DSL for the larger ones. Qwerty, your ‘daily driver’ class of cars made MM1 so relatable, so real…you may appreciate knowing my first real car (many years later) was a box Grand Marquis. Honourary mentions go out to Revolution Racing, BOX Designs, Qwerty_86, TEK_Xacto…the names that stuck with me all this time, after seeing them in so many Readme.txts. MM2 was probably the better game, but MM1 had the content that appealed to me.
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I particularly loved the Midtown Madness games, and it didn’t take long before I discovered the thriving enthusiast community developing add-on maps, vehicles and other mods for them. Titles that come to mind…Viper Racing, NFS III Hot Pursuit, NFS IV High Stakes, Half-Life, Redline Racer, and yes…Midtown Madness 1 and 2. Paul, we haven’t spoken in a long time now, but I do hope you know how much I appreciate those years. He went above and beyond in that role exposing me to technology and experiences that I may not have had access to otherwise, which played a major role in developing hobbies and interests I’ll have for life. I had been introduced to gaming-capable computers, and the games themselves, by my then-Big Brother (the mentoring program, not a sibling). That computer is the first one I ever “worked on”, in the form of adding hard drives harvested from discarded computers at the roadside. I was 12 at the time.Īt the time I was rocking a more-than-second-hand white box PC with a 150MHz Pentium Pro, 64MB of RAM, a 2.5GB Quantum Bigfoot, ATI Rage + 3DFX Voodoo2, and Netzero’s monthly 10 free hours of dial-up. Based on ‘date created’ metadata for some files I’ve dug up, around the year 2002 I was first introduced to two PC games: Microsoft Midtown Madness, and Midtown Madness 2.