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In Search of the Lost Words

Windows 3.x - 1996

Comments and reviews

Some_Dude 22 Feb. 2026

Everyone in the comments here so far mentions the usual VMs and stuff for playing this. But to play this game more natively there's winevdm / otvdm or you could just run any 32 bit version of windows ( last one was available for windows 10). Of course, I'd rather find period-correct hardware for it instead.

1
Pingamer 10 Dec. 2023

Is it possible to add the Hebrew version of the game?
I tried to find it everywhere on the internet.

2
Claudia Garcia 09 Sep. 2023

I colaborate for the Spanish version (practically just the instructions were translated) of this game back in the 90s, when the company I was working on signed for the rights to sell Compadia software in Mexico. It was my favorite game! I still feel nostalgy when we used to work with Compedia.

0
Danny 17 Jul. 2023

Really nostalgic, thank you for uploading! Works great in any pre-Vista VM. Even got it to work on Arch using Wine which really, really surprised me :p

1
Dagoh 05 Sep. 2020

If you ever really need to play this. I've also encountered some errors, mostly the Exe (lost.exe) missing files.
I eventually got it running on Windows XP VirtualBox instead of 3.1/95/98 just normal install and it went without errors first try as the way to the end. I used the ISO over at archive.org. But from what I've seen in my struggles it seems to be the same as this one.

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Steven 11 Feb. 2019

sorry but once it starts to run it its missin the LOST.exe

0
Noam from Israel 22 Oct. 2018

Excuse me, But You're wrong. The game is release in my Country at Isreal!!
Is Israeli game Belonging to Compedia society..
Change it please, You are mislead here

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Alex 04 May. 2018

I download but i cant open the program
Is it because I have windows 10?
help me pls

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I miss this game 10 Sep. 2016

Is it possible to run it with windows 10?

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Svajoklis 17 Jul. 2015

To ELLY, get VirtualBox and Windows 95 or 98 iso image (98 is better at directx and fully compatible with 95 stuff so I recommend that). Install there and it will work :)

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elly 16 Jun. 2015

i love that game ,it haves something mysterious about it, to bad i cant run it on dosbox or on windows 7

1

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Windows 3.x version
Game file
United Kingdom English
106 MB

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