... and then grabbed my old 4CD copy of TLJ and installed it on my Vista PC. Bam! Runtime error. Fun stuff. Fearing my hopes dashed, I tried everything a tech-savvy gamer might as far as compatibility fixes to no avail. So I headed out to Google in desperation, and found this thread and tried Miral's fix. A half-hour later, I am alt-tabbed from the game while I type this message of thanks. The game runs flawlessly at full graphic and sound settings (though the wrinkles in the FMV have begun to show after getting used to the realtime cutscenes in Crysis ).
Even though it was posted over a year ago and the link remains intact, it was described as a temporary link, so I proffer this very permanent home for those magical .dll files, here:
http://www.inchaos.net/TLJ-Dlls.zip For anyone who'd like to experience this classic adventure on the current OS of record, just put them in the same directory as game.exe and you're set.
Also, while I'm here, April Ryan is the sexiest videogame character of all time.
"I'm in my undies. That's... so not appropriate."
I found the solution of DLL copying to be very easy - and it apparently didn't matter which versions. Copy MFC42.DLL, msvcirt.DLL, and msvcp60.DLL from Disc One of 4-CD TLJ into your TLJ installation folder and rerun game. It's working on my Vista! Thank you Miral!