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I was talking to a woman last night who still has the Barbie Riding Club CD-ROM that she played in 1999. She mentioned trying to get it to work a few years ago

I was talking to a woman last night who still has the Barbie Riding Club CD-ROM that she played in 1999. She mentioned trying to get it to work a few years ago on her computer at the time but it not working. (This probably would have been on Windows 7.) I thought I remembered a recent update from one of the various API/engine re-implementation projects (e.g. something like but not necessarily ScummVM, Wine/Proton, or something associated with archive.org's Emularity project) that included a list of new titles that had become playable due to some recent fixes, and among those titles were (I thought) a bunch of Barbie and other low-budget franchise games in that vein. There wasn't any particular focus on these outside any of the other games listed—they were just mentioned in passing. Someone did bring it up in the comment section—maybe here on HN—but searching around didn't turn anything up. Any ideas?

dleslie 7mo ago
There's instructions by a user named Grace_Grape here: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/barbie-adventure-riding-club-mof https://www.myabandonware.com/game/barbie-adventure-riding-c...
- pwdisswordfishs 7mo ago
  I'm not looking for instructions about how to get Barbie Riding Club to work. Our conversation led to a vague memory of the blog post/release notes. I'm looking for that blog post, the list of titles, and the short subthread about it that I mentioned not being able to find.
  - lstodd 7mo ago
    It's apparently explicitly supported by dxwnd, but I failed to find anything in release notes or anything like a post you mention. Binary download however contains an 'exports' directory which is basically a list of titles it supports. Great reading in itself. https://sourceforge.net/projects/dxwnd/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/dxwnd/
    - pwdisswordfishs 6mo ago
      I'm not looking for instructions about how to get Barbie Riding Club to work. I'm looking for that blog post, the list of titles, and the short subthread about it that I mentioned not being able to find.
Kbbt 7mo ago
This could be something that could eventually end up being supported by Aaron Giles' DREAMM. Their Discord server has some instructions on playing untested games -- maybe you'll be lucky and it'd work without too much trouble. And maybe that's the project you heard about. It's making a tons of progress, lately.
- pwdisswordfishs 6mo ago
  The DREAMM list of supported games is here: https://dreamm.aarongiles.com/docs/v40/#intro-games https://dreamm.aarongiles.com/docs/v40/#intro-games It doesn't list any Barbie titles. It's not the project that I'm thinking of.

dleslie 7mo ago

There's instructions by a user named Grace_Grape here: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/barbie-adventure-riding-club-mof https://www.myabandonware.com/game/barbie-adventure-riding-c...

pwdisswordfishs 7mo ago
I'm not looking for instructions about how to get Barbie Riding Club to work. Our conversation led to a vague memory of the blog post/release notes. I'm looking for that blog post, the list of titles, and the short subthread about it that I mentioned not being able to find.
- lstodd 7mo ago
  It's apparently explicitly supported by dxwnd, but I failed to find anything in release notes or anything like a post you mention. Binary download however contains an 'exports' directory which is basically a list of titles it supports. Great reading in itself. https://sourceforge.net/projects/dxwnd/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/dxwnd/
  - pwdisswordfishs 6mo ago
    I'm not looking for instructions about how to get Barbie Riding Club to work. I'm looking for that blog post, the list of titles, and the short subthread about it that I mentioned not being able to find.

Kbbt 7mo ago

This could be something that could eventually end up being supported by Aaron Giles' DREAMM. Their Discord server has some instructions on playing untested games -- maybe you'll be lucky and it'd work without too much trouble. And maybe that's the project you heard about. It's making a tons of progress, lately.

pwdisswordfishs 6mo ago
The DREAMM list of supported games is here: https://dreamm.aarongiles.com/docs/v40/#intro-games https://dreamm.aarongiles.com/docs/v40/#intro-games It doesn't list any Barbie titles. It's not the project that I'm thinking of.