Ecstatic

I was watching the old Dune movie on Stars a few days ago and it reminded me about a game I haven't thought of in quite some time, Dune. One of my earliest memory’s of gaming is Dune. I used to spend hours on it and decided to try and pick it up again.

I found a few auctions on Ebay, but most were in the UK or looked suspicious. I finally decided to check an abandonware website to see if they had it. I know what some will say, "Abandonware is not exactly legal", and I concede the point, but here are mine.
1 The game is over ten years old.
2 It is not reasonably available to purchase.
3 I really wanted to play it.

Now that the legality was out of the way I had to get the old Dos game to run on XP.

"Not a Problem" I thought as I triumphantly ran the install.exe file I downloaded. A window opened, installing happened, and I squealed with joy.

But wait, a snag...
The beloved musical notes I remembered as a child were no where to be heard. "Not a Problem, I will play without music" was my battle cry as I continued on my quest.

I went to talk to Leto Atreides and again no sound, this would be a problem.

I scoured the internet high and low looking for the holy grail like program that would allow me to play a game far inferior to those I could easily play no more than five feet away.

I traversed the endless jungles known as Go Ogle only to be attacked by the tribe of Popup over and over again.

Finally as my supply of Mountain Dew had grown dangerously low, and I had abandoned my companions Alife and Hom Ework I found the thing I was looking for The VDMSound Project. I could finally return to my gaming in peace.

That was my story, and now I still have a rough draft and a ten minute speech to do.