O'Haiyo adventurers! In the last month I have purchased a G3 400 MHZ powerbook laptop, Virtual PC 5.0.4 with Windows 98 SE and Wizardry 8. I have been a Mac User for 10+ years and have really never used Windows for anything. Anyway this computer's entire purpose in life is to allow me to (finally) finish Crusaders of the Dark Savant (which I have been playing on and off for at least 6+ years) and thenceforth to Wizardry 8. So anyway I get Win98 loaded, that is working fine and the installation of Wiz8 goes well but I can't launch Wiz8. I am cast into Wizardry-less oblivion! I get an error message that says Wiz8 caused an invalid page fault in module ~df394b. The only windows software I have on the Virtual PC is the software set that installs, with Windows 98 along with Winzip I loaded from a CD that came with a book I bought. The computer has only been on the internet once, and never logged on with Windows so I am sure that I haven't got any viruses. I have been researching this problem by Googling various permutations of the error message and have concluded that I have some kind of SafeDisc problem. Since I don't know anything about Windows I hesitate to start doing any hacker type activity, so I am asking for help from you good folks first. Thanks in advance! Cliff

• RE: Wiz8 won't start on Windows 98,myrddin, 06:22 PM, Aug-27-06

I don't know a whole lot about MACs or how they implement virtual pc but it seems to me like the game can't find the CD that you are supposed to have in the drive when you start the game.

Make sure in Windows 98 if you double-cick on "my computer" and then the cd-rom drive that you can browse the Wizardry 8 #3 CD that should be in your CD-ROM drive.

Always remember the Tleilaxu Epigram:
Here lies a toppled god
his fall was but a small one
we did but build his pedestal
a narrow and a tall one.