help with alone in the dark 1
 

So I bought alone in the dark 1 on ebay, all 4 floppies worth :-)

Problem is everytime it starts up I first of all can't do a harddrive install, it is grayed out. Secondly, it asks everytime for the 2 pictures from some random page in the matchbook sized book that comes with the game. I have this but it is a major pain everytime I wanna play. Anybody know how to work around these problems?

I am using dosbox under windows to run it.

Oh man, that's so old. It used to run well on my Mac II VX, ffs. Goddamn zombie from that goddamn trapdoor...

I had my eye on the AITD Trilogy on ebay however the seller notified me that it would not run under XP at all and that they knew of no patches.

If you have tried dosbox and compatability mode I think you may be out of luck. Could always buy an old PC from ebay on the cheap that will run it?

http://www.abandonia.com/games/91/AloneinDark1.htm

you can download the game, a walkthrough, and manual there and find a long discussion about it.

Nice link that one.

Where there AITD 3 compatabililty issues also?

I know AITD 2 was hard to run however that is available for the Saturn and PSX.