But honestly, your children will probably want to play just for the fun of it. More educational, multicultural, and realistic than past versions, this is the perfect supplement for history studies on this period. Students can keep track of their adventures in a trip diary, which can even be printed out at the end of the trip (hopefully when the entire wagon has reached Oregon and not when the last member has died from dysentery). They break up the daily traveling and trials in a realistic manner as players cross plains, ford rivers, and climb mountains. With all these things combined, I was impressed with the amount of history lessons contained in the game. These are basically mini-movies of Captain Jed sharing true stories around the campfire at night. Another great addition is a storytelling time with Captain Jed Freedman. In this edition, players can select various characters, and they'll share historic facts in a storytelling manner, like you're chatting with pioneers as they share their hopes, fears, and adventures. Besides being able to hunt like the original game (with better graphics), players can also fish and forage for food, which is a lot of fun. The game is more realistic than is used to be, as players get more choices on supplies to bring and even different wagon styles. Like real people who traveled the trail, you run into problems like food and water shortages, broken wagon parts, flooded rivers, illness and injuries, stolen supplies, bad weather, getting lost, and more. For those who aren't familiar, this is a game where players fill a wagon with people and supplies and then head West on the historic Oregon Trail. It's also a ton more educational than it used to be as well. I wasn't disappointed, as this edition is even more fun and exciting than the original. This also gets past installing the annoying and irrelevant launcher the standard installer installs.I have very fond memories of playing this computer game as a child, so I was excited to take a look at this new and updated edition. C:\Games\OT5) and the rsrcpath in the INI file match AND the rsrcpath is the path to the game folder WITH "\Data" at the end. If it doesn't work, make sure the path you put the game under (i.e. Add 'rsrcpath=C:\Games\OT5\Data' minus quotes under the tag. You should now have the Data folder and the five files listed above in C:\Games\OT5ĥ. Copy the three files, binkw32.dll, OREGON5.INI, OT5.EXE from the HD\Win folder on the CD/ISO to C:\Games\OT5 Copy the Oregon5.Eng and Oregon5.Fst from the HD folder on the CD/ISO to C:\Games\OT5Ĥ. Copy the DATA folder from the CD/ISO to C:\Games\OT5ģ.
Create a folder on your hard drive where you want to run the game from, for example C:\Games\OT5.
To play without installing AND to play on Windows 10:ġ.
You can then use ImgBurn to make an ISO of the CD you just burned to have a valid ISO.
Here is how to get it to work and not need the CD to play (I hate using CDs when I can): To work around this, just go to the installation directory (probably "C:\Program Files\The Learning Company\Oregon Trail 5" if you installed it on an old Windows (virtual) machine), and execute "ot5.exe". Alternatively, you could use UDF, but I don't recommend that for anyone who plans on mounting this into a virtual machine running an old version of Windows.) You may also be able to run this program from WINE, although I have not tested this.īTW, when I ran this game, I got some weird TLC launcher-thing that didn't seem to work.
(You might want to use "-l" or "-J" to avoid truncating the files to 8.3 filenames. Once you've got access to the files in this image, you can then use something like genisoimage or mkisofs to make a "normal" ISO file. Be sure to replace "" with an actual directory.
(Do note: I tried mounting this without fuseiso using the "mount" command, and it failed.) Here's how you do it (again, no quotes): "fuseiso 5.iso ". Since it's a FUSE-based mounter, it doesn't require root to use. Method #2: FuseISO (/projects/fuseiso/) can mount this ISO to any arbitrary directory, provided that FUSE is installed, and the user has read+write+execute permissions to said directory. To use this program just type (without quotes) "unar 5.iso", and this will extract the ISO to. If there are any GNU/Linux users out there, I've got two methods you can use to read this weird image.