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Re: Hey yall. Can anyone help with a few different things?

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From: I.C. Koets
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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From: "I.C. Koets" <I.C.Koets@student.tnw.tudelft.nl>
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Subject: Re: Hey yall. Can anyone help with a few different things?
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 03:01:28 +0100
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