“Impossible,” Marco had said. “It’s abandonware that wants to be abandoned.”

“Not just working. Thriving. I’m inside the depot right now.”

He followed it like a bomb disposal manual. Step one: disable fullscreen optimizations. Step two: run setup in Windows 98 compatibility mode. Step three: copy the dgVoodoo files into the game’s root directory. Step four—the weird one—rename movie folder to movie_old because the intro cutscene would cause a black screen crash.