🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 3 May 2010 23:56:27 +0100, Angus <angus@_ANTISPEM_angusm.demon.co.uk>
wrote:

>In article <g2tlt5h8bqgccnoi9tgcin5c4ic2m4i24s@4ax.com>, 
>joe.granto@NoSpam.com says...
>> 
>> >From what I've seen there are a few issues getting the game to run, can 
>> >anybody advise, and is it worth the trouble?
>> 
>> Definitely worth the trouble. You may want to use Compatibility Mode
>> to run it. You can download a comprehensive compatibility mode util
>> from Microsoft that allows you to control things very granularly. That
>> may be your best bet.
>
>I've re-installed and got it working - I think I basically got things 
>mixed up before.
>
>A small problem. Yhere are some useful arguments you can use wth the exe 
>file like -nologos (skips adverts) -lagrange (puts the freedom to jump 
>around the galazy back into the game) and -disk means you can put all 
>the files from the cd on to the hard disk, but the thing is this....
>
>the thing is the patch file changes things so that the exe file 
>(iwar.exe) now brings up a requester to choose what graphic options you 
>want, then when you click okay, this fires up a new file called game.exe 
>which starts the game.
>
>I don't know how to attach the arguments to game.exe, I can make a 
>shortcut and add them in properties but, it won't start from the 
>requester it needs to start from the iwar.exe file and when that fires 
>up game.exe iy dpesn't look at a shortcut.
>
>Is there a way to tack on the arguments tp the game.exe file so that 
>however it is executed it takes notice of them?

One way that might work would be to compile your own executable called
game.exe which calls the real one, which you would rename to something else.

I've done things like this in the past with AutoIT, a compilable scriping
language similar to Basic.