| 15 APR 2006 at 11:34am |
WimliGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Terry Penrod:
Thanks for the info! I'm looking forward getting into Arcanum. Too bad I don't really have much gaming time at the moment. And I think I would have gone for the magic side the first time anyway. Good to know too that it works fine in Win XP!
LadyKestrel:
Jep, I've only just gotten The Dark Eye, but it surely lies on the top of games to play! I have read about some technical difficulties in XP, so I'll have to look into that some more before I start. :-/
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| 15 APR 2006 at 11:51pm |
shed22Space Cadet
Posts : 106
Joined: 18 SEP 2005
Status : Offline | I recently finished NiBiRu, ECHO, and Blackstone Chronicles. I also finished Scratches (Three times). Right now I'm playing Still Life again while waiting for Barrow Hill and Keepsake to appear in my mailbox. Oddly, I have developed an intense desire to play Drowned God again, for no good reason. I haven't seen it in a long time and remember thinking that this would have been a great game to play in my youth (Except we didn't have computers in my youth! [smiley=grin.gif]). Thus far I've had no luck finding it. [smiley=sad.gif]
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| 16 APR 2006 at 6:19am |
Wendy1117Intergalactic Janitor
Posts : 51
Joined: 2 MAR 2006
Status : Online | I'm just starting Keepsake and I am in the middle of replaying Black Mirror. Scratches is sitting to my right in the waiting mode and Barrow Hill is in transit. I have Dreamfall & Paradise on pre-order.
So many good games......not enough time.
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| 16 APR 2006 at 3:12pm |
MikekellyPrivate Detective
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I have Dreamfall & Paradise on pre-order.
I do as well.
I'm playing Egypt 2 - and I love this game!
I'm on the last chapter - but I do have Egypt 3 in the mail and I know it's as good as this one.
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| 16 APR 2006 at 3:55pm |
MarkGuild Master
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Location: US, Georgia
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Mikekelly (16 APR 2006 3:11pm)
I'm playing Egypt 2 - and I love this game!
Mike, is that Egypt II: The Heliopolis Prophecy? With the Princess Tifet?
I liked it, too, and especially enjoyed the little fluttering beetle in the Main Menu.
I kept moving the mouse over and over that little bug just to see it flutter!
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 16 APR 2006 at 4:52pm |
gailSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I'm playing No One Lives Forever 2. I've finally mastered the WASD keyboard controlds. .... about time too!
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other screaming, "WOO HOO what a ride!!!
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| 16 APR 2006 at 7:24pm |
colpetSchattenjger
Posts : 1632
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Status : Offline | Try changing that "" to the drive your game CD is in. If you tell you computer to look at drive "" for the game, it won't find it. Neither of my CD/DVD drives are named "" either.
But what about my real 'D' drive?
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| 16 APR 2006 at 11:23pm |
MikekellyPrivate Detective
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"Mike, is that Egypt II: The Heliopolis Prophecy? With the Princess Tifet?"
YES - that's the one! I love this First person adventure game!
I bought it for $5.00 dollars - would have paid FAR more!
I did buy the third one at regular price - can HARDLY wait to play that one!
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| 17 APR 2006 at 2:53am |
Goddess of All Things MagicalSchattenjger
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Status : Online | I'm playing Voyage at the moment-another entertaining inventory based adventure portrayed in vibrant colors.
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| 17 APR 2006 at 3:10am |
| Deleted User | I'm replaying Black Dahlia because at another forum someone asked a question about running it in XP. So I just had to install it... and it played flawlessly... and I just had to refresh my memory about certain things... and yes, it is still a very good FMV game!
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| 17 APR 2006 at 3:46am |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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Originally Posted By Betje (17 APR 2006 3:09am)
I'm replaying Black Dahlia because at another forum someone asked a question about running it in XP. So I just had to install it... and it played flawlessly... and I just had to refresh my memory about certain things... and yes, it is still a very good FMV game!
That's good to know because I just happen to have a perfect copy of Black Dahlia sitting right here next to my WinXP machine.
Cheers, Terry
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| 17 APR 2006 at 9:46am |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By Terry Penrod (17 APR 2006 3:45am)
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Originally Posted By Betje (17 APR 2006 3:09am)
I'm replaying Black Dahlia because at another forum someone asked a question about running it in XP. So I just had to install it... and it played flawlessly... and I just had to refresh my memory about certain things... and yes, it is still a very good FMV game!
That's good to know because I just happen to have a perfect copy of Black Dahlia sitting right here next to my WinXP machine.
Whoa, look at that! Whatever happened to your promise that you would IGNORE the cowardly, petty, prejudiced forum troll? The nasty, immature, spiteful pest you never seek out or instigate contact with unless she responds to one of your posts? Turning a new leaf, sweetheart?
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| 17 APR 2006 at 1:31pm |
WimliGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Aargh!!! Totally stuck in Largo Winch now! > Can't get past the final fight at Sarjevane! (well, I think it's the final one, given the extreme and unfair rise of difficulty :)
The game so far was excellent! Complex and intriguing story, fun gameplay (including some challenging mini games), great characters and nice puzzles. Why oh why do they suddenly have to insert a fight that is at least ten times harder as the ones before it! It's two against four (well three actually, after Largo's special move) stronger opponents. Really don't understand how anyone can get past it without some sort of cheat. :-/
Just opened a topic on Largo Winch in the hints section, to avoid cluttering this topic and posting spoilers here. Please, please, someone help me!
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| 17 APR 2006 at 1:45pm |
kuddlesPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Betje (17 APR 2006 9:45am)
Whoa, look at that! Whatever happened to your promise that you would IGNORE the cowardly, petty, prejudiced forum troll? The nasty, immature, spiteful pest you never seek out or instigate contact with unless she responds to one of your posts? Turning a new leaf, sweetheart?
EDIT: I changed my mind. Why bother.
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| 17 APR 2006 at 4:41pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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Originally Posted By kuddles (17 APR 2006 1:45pm)
Originally Posted By Betje (17 APR 2006 9:45am)
Whoa, look at that! Whatever happened to your promise that you would IGNORE the cowardly, petty, prejudiced forum troll? The nasty, immature, spiteful pest you never seek out or instigate contact with unless she responds to one of your posts? Turning a new leaf, sweetheart?
I feel so sorry for you. I doubt you even see the irony in your post.
Thank you for sparing me the trouble of pointing that out Kuddles.
Cheers, Terry
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| 17 APR 2006 at 11:29pm |
| Deleted User | [smiley=rofl.gif] [smiley=rofl.gif] [smiley=rofl.gif]
The two of you are priceless! This is a conspiracy to entertain Evil Betje, right?
And look at the timing... 12.39 and 12.40!
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| 18 APR 2006 at 1:58am |
ElfstoneGuild Master
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Status : Online | @colpet
Sorry, I haven't responded earlier, but I must have read past your post or you edited it later on, because I know I've read your response, but can't remember that about Dosbox?
Yes, Dosbox interprets D as your cd drive by default. You have to use the mount command to change it. Internally, Dosbox always handles D as cd drive and you can only reference to it by using D.
I'm a little rusty with Dosbox and don't have it currently installed.
There should be something about it in the help file. I could find out later, but right now I have to catch some sleep.
I re-read your reply and I think what you need to know right now is that drive D within Dosbox is NOT your drive D, but only a replacement for a generic cd drive!! The mount command is used to change this D to your real cd drive.
It could be
mount d:\ f:\
but I'm pretty sure it was different...I think there was a specific command for cd drives, maybe a parameter -cd or a completely different command.
Because mount is used to change any directory on any of your drives to C - because C in Dosbox points to the place the executable file for your game is located at. Again, C in Dosbox is not your C.
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| 18 APR 2006 at 1:22pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | dosbox doesn't always see d as a cdrom drive... actually, you can start with no cdroms or harddrives mounted at all (that's what i do)... my cdrom letters are i and j, as well as l, m, n, o etc for virtual drives and that's how i always mount them on dosbox... i can mount d (my xp hard drive) as d just fine too... but the big plus in dosbox is that you can change the letters at will... so games that feature crappy coding and require certain letters have no problem running there
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 18 APR 2006 at 2:00pm |
CrapstormJourneyman
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Status : Online | I'm playing Sid Meier's Pirates! which would be a half-decent strategy game if it weren't for the Whack-a-Mole fencing and dancing sequences.
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| 18 APR 2006 at 6:39pm |
ElfstoneGuild Master
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Status : Online | Aya, is that true? I remember it differently, but maybe I didn't get it.
You just volunteered to explain the mount and everything to colpet!
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| 18 APR 2006 at 8:43pm |
WimliGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Haha, finished Largo Winch! All in all, great game! 8-) Also created a poll in the Members' Adventure Game Ratings, you know for the two or three people out there who have actually played this game. (btw, is it just me, or are not many people voting in that forum anymore lately? No new polls for a while either. :-/)
That means I'll finally be able to dive into Zork Grand Inquisitor.
Also, I'll start CSI 1 on the side, just to have something else to play when being stuck in ZGI.
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| 18 APR 2006 at 8:44pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Elfstone (18 APR 2006 6:38pm)
Aya, is that true? I remember it differently, but maybe I didn't get it.
maybe things were different in older versions of dosbox... i don't remember
You just volunteered to explain the mount and everything to colpet!
i did? what am supposed to be explaining?
if it's the mount command, here's how it works:
mount [dosbox_drive_letter] [real_drive_letter]:\
dosbox_drive_letter is the letter you want dosbox to use for the drive you're mounting... real_drive_letter is the actual letter that drive has in windows... for example, if you want to mount your d: drive as c: in dosbox you would type:
mount c d:\
if your cd drive's letter is f: but a game needs it as d: you would type:
mount d f:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl (the rest are used only for cdroms)
note how the first letter doesn't have the :\, but the second letter does
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 18 APR 2006 at 11:05pm |
ElfstoneGuild Master
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And now I know what I meant earlier...if a game needs D as cd drive you have to change your drive to that letter. I somehow confused "one game" with "all of Dosbox" regarding the internal handling of drives... :
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| 19 APR 2006 at 11:13am |
colpetSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | if it's the mount command, here's how it works:
mount [dosbox_drive_letter] [real_drive_letter]:\
dosbox_drive_letter is the letter you want dosbox to use for the drive you're mounting... real_drive_letter is the actual letter that drive has in windows... for example, if you want to mount your d: drive as c: in dosbox you would type:
mount c d:\
if your cd drive's letter is f: but a game needs it as d: you would type:
mount d f:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl (the rest are used only for cdroms)
note how the first letter doesn't have the :\, but the second letter does
EEK! :-? :-?
This looks like gibberish to me. I need some hand holding here. I'll try to get Riddle of Master Lu loaded on Dosbox this weekend (probably Saturday). Aya, can I PM you with my step by step queries?
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