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Article #35905Re: Hey yall. Can anyone help with a few different things?
From: I.C. Koets
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 02:01
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 02:01
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bluk wrote: > > Okies, first thing. Both Enemy unknown and Terror from the deep crash a > lot during the battles, tftd so much that it cant even be played at all. > Ive found that in tftd there are several places on the map where it will > ALWAYS crash if you try to move a character there, its almost > unavoidable. I'm not familiar with such a bug. What OS do you run? > > Xcom Apocolypse. I try to start the game and all i get is a _| changing > colours. > > For dosbox users. In a nutshell, Im sure by now I've done it the right > way but it doesnt do anything at all, not even any error messages. > > Now, I dont really know much about dosbox except it makes me want to pull > my hair out. Now first thing, I get two windows. One of them I cant type > in and I cant drag programs into any of them (like you can in cmd.exe) Now > ive tried it all in the little window, but whats the big window behind it > for? There's an emulation window, in which everything happens. The other one is where DosBox shows its own status, for instance at which speed it runs. > I cant get the game to run with what I have. I either get an error > message Which? >or when I do it the way I think is the right way it doesnt do > anything at all. so you mount the directory, enter the correct subdir and type the correct filename, and then? Does the cursor still blink? Do you get a new prompt? > You can see my frustratin. I've deleated these games 3 times now in > fits of anger and downloaded them again because I just want to play them > so bad. Can anyone help? We can try...
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