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Frequently Asked Questions
If you are having a problem with Daphne, chances are that other people have had the same problem. Do yourself a favor and read the list of Frequently Asked Questions before you do anything else.
Daphne Overview
What is Daphne?
Daphne is a program that lets people play original laserdisc arcade games (such as Dragon's Lair) on their computers.
History
The history of Daphne is terribly fascinating. Perhaps one day I will include it here :)
Game List
Daphne (as of v1.0) can play the following games:
- Astron Belt
- Badlands
- Bega's Battle
- Cliff Hanger
- Cobra Command
- Dragon's Lair
- Dragon's Lair II : Timewarp
- Esh's Aurunmilla
- Galaxy Ranger
- GP World
- Interstellar
- M.A.C.H. 3
- Road Blaster
- Space Ace
- Star Blazer
- Super Don Quix-ote
- Thayer's Quest
- Us vs Them
Getting Started
Requirements
To play Daphne, you will need a Pentium III 500 MHz machine or faster. These days, most people have something much better.
Also, if you want to play Dragon's Lair, Dragon's Lair 2, Space Ace, or Thayer's Quest, we recommend that you have a corresponding Digital Leisure DVD. Wait.. a what?? Click here to get the scoop on these DVDs.
Installing
Get the latest version of Daphne from the Download Section.
Installing on Windows
We distribute Daphne as a "Zip" file. Before you can use Daphne, you must "extract" Daphne's "Zip" file using something like WinZip or WinRar. When extracting, you will be asked to which folder you wish to extract. You can extract the Daphne's "Zip" file to any folder on your computer that you would like. If you don't know where to extract to, "c:\daphne" is a place that will work.
Installing on Mac OSX
For OSX, we distribute Daphne as a compressed .DMG file. After downloading the file, just double-click on it to run it.
Installing on Linux
For x86/linux, we Daphne distribute as a .TAR.GZ file. To "extract" the file, use a command like this:
tar xvfz daphne.tar.gz
The actual command will depend on the exact name of the file, which is the name of the file that you download.
Playing your first game
Here are easy instructions for playing Dragon's Lair in Daphne. This isn't the only way to play Dragon's Lair, but it is the easiest way, and the only way that we recommend. If you want to try other ways to play Dragon's Lair, make sure you have successfully gotten this method working first!
- Run DaphneLoader (running Daphne directly will not work)
- You may be prompted that a new version of DaphneLoader exists. If so, click OK to automatically update to the latest version. If not, continue to the next step.
- You will see a list of games. Click on Dragon's Lair so that Dragon's Lair is now highlighted.
- Click the Start button.
- You will be warned that a Dragon's Lair DVD will be required. If you don't have a Dragon's Lair DVD, or aren't sure if you have one or not, go read about it here. Otherwise, click OK.
- You will be prompted that DaphneLoader needs to download some files. Click OK to begin the download.
- The download will take hours or days depending on how fast your internet connection is. Be patient and allow the download to finish. You will be glad you did.
- Once the download finishes, you will be prompted to insert your DVD. Insert the DVD and click OK.
- DaphneLoader will attempt to authenticate the DVD. If authentication succeeds, go to the next step. If authentication fails, go here.
- Once the authentication is complete, you will be prompted that the game is ready to begin. Click OK and enjoy playing Dragon's Lair!
Daphne Reference
Daphne Loader
DaphneLoader is the program that we recommend that you run in order to play games on Daphne. To get detailed information about DaphneLoader, click here
Daphne
Daphne is the program that plays laserdisc games, but it is difficult to run directly. We recommend that you run DaphneLoader instead. If you want to get detailed information about Daphne, then click here.
