Install instructions

Installing on Windows 7

Download the game installer(26 megabytes) and run it.

Installing on Windows Vista

Download the game installer(26 megabytes) and run it.

Do Not install the additional voices as described for XP, these break things for reasons we don’t yet understand.

Installing on Windows XP

  1. Download the game installer(26 megabytes) and run it. The game should be playable at this point with the “MSSam” voices. If you have other voices installed, the should also be available. The next step installs a few more voices, if you don’t need them you can skip it.
  2. Download the Microsoft Voice Installer(3.5 megabytes) and run it. We have heard from some users of Netscape that simply clicking on this link results in a screen of garbled text. We recommend that you right-click on the link and select “Save link as” to save the file on your local disk (say on the desktop) then double-click on the resulting file.

Now the game should be playable with several voices.

Installing on Windows 2000

  1. Download the game installer(26 megabytes) and run it.
  2. Download the Microsoft Speech Installer(6.5 megabytes) and the Microsoft Voice Installer(3.5 megabytes) and run both of them. We have heard from some users of Netscape that simply clicking on this link results in a screen of garbled text. We recommend that you right-click on the link and select “Save link as” to save the file on your local disk (say on the desktop) then double-click on the resulting file.

Now the game should be playable with multiple voices.

Installing on Windows 98, Windows 98SE, and Windows ME

  1. Download the game installer(26 megabytes) and run it.
  2. Download the new improved Microsoft installer(1.6 megabytes) needed for the next step. Run the installer.
  3. Download the Microsoft Speech Installer(6.5 megabytes) and the Microsoft Voice Installer(3.5 megabytes) and run both of them. We have heard from some users of Netscape that simply clicking on this link results in a screen of garbled text. We recommend that you right-click on the link and select “Save link as” to save the file on your local disk (say on the desktop) then double-click on the resulting file.
  4. On some, really old, Windows 98 machines, you may need to upgrade your DirectX version to 8.0 by downloading and running this Microsoft updater(10.9 megabytes).

Installing on Windows 95

  1. Download the game installer for Windows 95(15 megabytes) and run it.
  2. You likely need to upgrade your DirectX version to 8.0 by downloading and running this Microsoft updater(10.9 megabytes).

Unfortunately, I cannot get the Microsoft voices to work on Windows 95 so you’ll be stuck with the default “Kal” voice.

Apple Macintosh

Not yet available.