Windows Entertainment Pack for Packard Bell (WEPPB)

Games : Windows : Full Game : English Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Packard Bell (PfP) Windows Entertainment Pack for Packard Bell (WEPPB) A Preserved for Posterity Release November 5, 2007 As the name implies, Preserved for Posterity exists for the sole purpose of preserving the past, well into the future. When PfP began, we weren't too certain as to the best method of achieving this goal. As a result, there are a few PfP releases floating around out there in cyberspace that should probably be deleted and forgotten due to their extreme inelegance and awful design. In fact, any PfP release prior to October 1, 2007 should be considered Recycle Bin fodder! Uninstall and delete those old releases and keep an eye out for much improved replacements - You will not be disappointed! Our intent is to locate old software, which is no longer available for sale (this is typically referred to as Abandonware, Orphanware, or some other such moniker) and create new setups (installers) which allow these blasts from the past to function correctly on modern PC's. To achieve this, we make the best possible use of tools such as DOSBox, VDMSound and the ever present Windows Command Interpreter (when working with MS-DOS applications). Improved installers are created for older Windows based applications. This release contains the original Entertainment Pack for Packard Bell. The original setup (installer) for WEPPB, unlike the earliest Entertainment Packs for Windows, actually installs perfectly on later versions of Windows. We have, however, created a 32-bit installer for WEPPB, just as we have with Entertainment Packs 1-4. This installer should be compatible with most 32-bit versions of Windows (untested on Vista). Remember, this is 16-bit software, even though our installer is 32-bit. This may prevent the software from being compatible with Vista, as we have heard that Vista doesn't support legacy 16-bit sofware, however, we are at present unsure of this. We don't currently use Vista, and have no immediate plans to migrate to it. This software should function with Windows 9x, ME, NT and XP without problems. Eventually, we will support Vista. In fact, we could launch DOSBox within Vista, Install Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (or other 3.x Windows) into DOSBox and install the original Windows Entertainment Pack for Packard Bell into that environment and it would work. We have tested this method with DOSBox on Windows XP and it works well and should also work with Vista as DOSBox is a 32-bit application (this method is also possible within Linux using the Linux version of DOSBox). Just thought we would give you a few hints on using legacy 16-bit Windows software with Vista and Linux, in case the use of DOSBox to run Windows 3.1 had not occurred to you. This setup creates the following DIRectories (folders): My Documents\Inno Setup scripts My Documents\Disk Images\Floppy\1.44M Program Files\Microsoft Games\WEPPB The WEPPB folder is the folder where the Windows Entertainment Pack for Packard Bell is installed. The 1.44M folder exists as part of our goal of preserving the original software for posterity. Within the 1.44M folder is a floppy diskette image of the original Windows Entertainment Pack for Packard Bell that we have. It was created using WinImage 8.10.8100 directly from the original floppy diskette, and requires WinImage or other diskette image tool for manipulation. The diskette image is named WEPPB.imz. The Inno Setup scripts folder will contain the script used to generate this installer via Jordan Russell's Inno Setup software. This installer has been designed to completely remove itself when uninstalled, with the exception of the Disk Images and Inno Setup scripts folders. These folders may be safely deleted at any time, should you have no need or desire for the diskette images of the original 16-bit installer and/or setup scripts. The following program group will be created: START>PROGRAMS>MICROSOFT GAMES>WINDOWS ENTERTAINMENT PACK>PB which will contain the following icons (games): Chess Dr. Black Jack Fuji Golf JigSawed Life Genesis Rattler Race Rodent's Revenge SkiFree We are certain that it will probably annoy some people that we are including original disk images with these distributions. Other people will be ecstatic. We would just like to say that in order to fulfill our goal, the diskette images MUST be included. Certainly, some may be annoyed that we are including the Paint and Reversi applications from Windows 1.01, Windows 2.03, Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1. ToastyTech.com succeeded in patching the Windows 1.01 and 2.03 applications so that they would function with later versions of Windows. The Windows 3.x applications work with all later versions of Windows out of the box. We decided it would be cool to include the Paint 1.01 and Reversi 1.01 with Entertainment Pack 1, Paint 2.03 and Reversi 2.03 with Entertainment Pack 2, Paint and Reversi from Windows 3.0 with Entertainment Pack 3 and Paint and Reversi from Windows 3.11 with Entertainment Pack 4 (Note: Reversi 3.11 was NOT included with Windows 3.11, but was offered as a download from Microsoft, which is where we got it). We have decided to include Solitaire from Windows 3.0 with Windows Entertainment Pack : Volume Three. Install and Enjoy these classic games on your modern PC! Look for more PfP releases, with Entertainment Pack #4 following next. (Entertainment Packs 1-3 are already available, 4 is in the works.) PfP - November 5, 2007 The following information is from WikiPedia: Microsoft Entertainment Pack From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Developer(s) Microsoft Publisher(s) Microsoft Game Studios Distributor(s) Microsoft Designer(s) Robert Andrews Series Entertainment Pack Release date(s) 1990 Genre(s) Mode(s) Single-player Platform(s) Windows 3.x The original Microsoft Windows Entertainment Pack (WEP) was a collection of simply-designed computer games for Windows. These games were somewhat unusual for the time, in that they would not run under MS-DOS. Many of the games were later released in the Best of Windows Entertainment Pack. There were four Entertainment Packs in the original series. List of games Here is a complete list of the original Microsoft Windows Entertainment Pack titles: * Chess * Chip's Challenge * Cruel (a card game) * Dr. Black Jack * FreeCell (a card game) * Fuji Golf * Go Figure! * Golf (a card game) * IdleWild (a screensaver program) * JezzBall * Jigsawed * Klotski * Life Genesis (based on the Life simulation by John Horton Conway) * Maxwell's Maniac * Pegged * Pipe Dream (by LucasArts) * Rattler Race * Rodent's Revenge * SkiFree * Stones * Taipei * Tetravex * Tetris (Windows version) * Tic Tac Drop (basically a Connect Four clone) * TicTactics * TriPeaks (a card game) * Tut's Tomb (a card game) * WordZap GameSampler A version of the Entertainment Pack called the Gamesampler, small enough to fit on a single high-density disk, was shipped as the 11th disk in a ten-pack by Verbatim for much of the early 1990s, allowing many users to acquire them as a freebie. Games on the sampler included Jezzball, Rodent's Revenge, Tetris, and Skifree. A "Best of" disk of several of the games was also available at times as a mail-in premium from Kellogg's cereals. * Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection - a later collection for Windows 95: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Entertainment_Pack:_The_Puzzle_Collection * Microsoft Arcade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Arcade * Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_Microsoft_Entertainment_Pack Entertainment Pack for Packard Bell (PfP) a.k.a. Windows Entertainment Pack PB (WEPPB)

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bongsi (2007-11-15)

how all this file save on 2.01 MB?

super-seeder45 (2008-06-05)

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wyatt415 (2008-12-25)

Anyone else getting .dll errors when they try to play some of the games? How do you fix this?

everettpf3 (2010-01-24)

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