How to make Skip98 work on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

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My Mother in law was playing to an old freeware Skip-bo game on her Windows XP computer, it's called Skip98. You could still find it by goggling it, but the original site is down.

She bought a new Laptop, it came with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and I cannot get this old game working on it, I get corrupted graphics.

I check this question, but she has Home Premium version, so Microsoft state that :

You are not eligible to download Windows XP Mode. You must have Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate to run Windows XP Mode. To upgrade visit Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade.

And she is not interested in upgrading to "get a free game working".

Meanwhile, I found a browser version, by the same programmer, but she likes to play when she doesn't have Internet access (example, at theirs holiday home).

How could I get it to work, or is there any free alternative?

Answer

I'm the author of SkipWE. I created a ZIP file which should allow you to run SkipWE without internet access. Simply download the file from the link below, extract it to your desktop (or elsewhere), then double-click the "SkipWE.exe" file. Hopefully that will work at your mother's holiday home :)

FILE: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=78RHS2UQ

Enjoy!

-PF

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Help in identifying a multiplayer strategy/card game.

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The game had a demo on a PCGamer disc back in the late 90's, between 98-2000. I remember you were able to move your unit(s)? on an Isometric board, and actions were done through using cards in your hand. If I remember right it was heavily based around multiplayer, and I believe you could even buy more cards online. I enjoyed it, and doubt its still active but it bothers me that I cant think of the name to even look at what happened to it.

Edit More info about the game that i remember it was isometric and played on Terrain, I remember you had a human character.. or multiple possibly. It was based around fantasy.

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Isometric, fantasy based, with online purchasing -- sounds like Sanctum (not the recent co-op tower defense game):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctum_(game)

According to that wiki page (and my recollection) the servers for it were eventually taken over by a consortium of players themselves ("Nioga") after the company running it could no longer support them. In 2010 they went down for good and IIRC have not resurfaced.

I believe some of the developers went on to make Star Chamber and eventually become SOE Denver.

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