[OFFER] The 11th Hour Beta Game Engine (DOS)

[eraser]

I figure that this is very rare nowadays.

When I was a kid in 1996 I saved up my allowance money and bought The 11th Hour. Even though my 486DX4-100 met the minimum requirements for the game it seriously struggled. I called Virgin tech support and they told me that I wasn't the only one having trouble and sent me a floppy disk with a beta version of the game engine (DOS) that fixed the performance problems. I don't know exactly what changes have been made in this version of the engine but the letter it came with says it "fixes several issues." When installed it adds a menu option to change the video playback speed from 30fps to 15fps. It also removes the option to change the bit depth of the gameplay (it forces 16-bit).

I made an image of the floppy disk (WinImage .IMG file) and I also scanned the letter Virgin send with the disk (PDF).

[Damian9303]

I'd like this as well

[mrpijey]

Hm, interesting. If you got the original floppy please scan the floppy as well.

[RentedMule]

This patch was available on their FTP site. It allowed for interlaced video in the Vesa VBE interface, which increased performance. The changing of the bit depth had no impact on performance, which is why it was removed (try it in the release binary)

https://web.archive.org/web/19961208072 ... 0/beta.htm