{"id":4165,"date":"2024-01-01T17:46:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T22:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/?p=4165"},"modified":"2024-01-01T17:48:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T22:48:52","slug":"playing-pitfall-the-mayan-adventure-on-a-modern-windows-11-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/2024\/01\/01\/playing-pitfall-the-mayan-adventure-on-a-modern-windows-11-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Pitfall the Mayan Adventure on a Modern Windows 11 PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pitfall the Mayan Adventure was on Genesis (MegaDrive), Super Nintendo, and PC for Windows 95. It requires the CD to be in the drive in order to read audio. I tried a variety of methods including virtualbox that worked to varying degrees. But I find a solution that provided a better gameplay experience and better audio. Not all of these steps may be necessary, but I found it&#8217;s what worked for me.<\/p>\n<p>Copy the contents of the CD to a folder on your PC. Go into the Assets folder and change the compatibility settings of PITFALL.EXE, and set it to run in Windows XP (Service Pack 3) mode. I also set it to 8-bit color, disable fullscreen optimizations, and Run as Administrator. That said, I&#8217;m not sure the last 3 are necessary.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog-tim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PitFallSettings.png\"><\/p>\n<p>Add the dlls from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=dgvoodoo2\">dgvoodoo2<\/a> to the ASSETS folder. These override the newer graphic APIs with earlier versions.<\/p>\n<p>Run PITFALL.EXE directly from the ASSETS folder. The CD will still need to be in the drive, for the audio to work.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, rather than trying to figure out the joystick interface in the settings, I used <a href=\"https:\/\/xpadder.com\/\">xpadder<\/a> to configure my controller to use the keys from the keyboard settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pitfall the Mayan Adventure was on Genesis (MegaDrive), Super Nintendo, and PC for Windows 95. It requires the CD to be in the drive in order to read audio. I tried a variety of methods including virtualbox that worked to varying degrees. But I find a solution that provided a better gameplay experience and better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hoolihan.net\/blog-tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}