Hi.

 

It has been 15 years or so since I played Harpoon Classic. As I have not used a PC since then, I wanted to know what PC hardware/software I would need to run it. I think I remember that it runs in DOS, and I had it running on a Windows 95 machine. Does it run on later versions of Windows (98, ME or even 7?). I basically plan to buy an old, cheap PC so I can run the game. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

CoBrit, welcome back to the harpoon community! We are small but the screws are still turning! Your best best is this http://www.matrixgames.com/products/392/details/Larry.Bond's.Harpoon.-.Ultimate.Edition

 

This will get you a whole lot of harpoon and it runs all of them on win xp/vista/7/8. A whole lot of bang for the buck.

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3203647 may help you as well, do let us know if you have other questions.

 

My machine is Windows 8 pro 64-bit and the GE (Game Engine, for playing scenarios). I run the scenario editor in an XP 32-bit VMware virtual machine. Some people grab an old XP machine to run the scenario editor and I can't complain about that approach (Windows 2000 would also be fine there, Win98 and ME would work but I'd say 2000 is better than that, and XP perhaps best).

Up until a couple of months ago I was running an old laptop with celeron processor, 250 meg ram and it was fine for harpoon classic (a little slow with some of the very big scenarios running on time compression). A computer of those specs generally gets thrown out so you shouldn't have to pay much to get back on board.

The latest harpoon package has two harpoon games classic and ANW. ANW didn't run well on my old machine until I found an additional 250 meg of ram (and it was just OK but could struggle) so if you get atleast 500 meg RAM that would be better.

I'd try to get a reasonable sized screen so you can lay out your two main windows nice and large. I was using a 17" LED monitor (it was pretty cheap second hand) and I used my partners 19" work screen a couple of times - I'd recommend a screen around 17" - 19" depending on cost. Two screens (I used the laptop internal and the external screen together) is great as you can then expand the group and unit screens quite large.

_{Thanks for all the replies. Very helpful. Can't wait to be up and running.}