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4908
... You might try passing the command-line parameter "/q", which tells it to skip all the opening animations. I had problems with the animations being...
merle
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Sep 1, 2003
7:27 pm
4909
Well met Merle, Many thnaks for the possible solution to my Win 98se problem. I'm not sure exactly where I would add the /q parameter. Within the Autoexec.bat...
Silverleaf
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Sep 1, 2003
10:31 pm
4910
Hello fellow travelers, First off a hearty Hail ! to Merle for his simple yet powerful solution of /q. I added that to the Darklands shortcut and didn't get a...
Silverleaf
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Sep 2, 2003
1:42 am
4911
Greetings, As promised, here is my system specs - in hopes it may help someone else with a similiar setup. I ran the harware configuration first and then made...
Silverleaf
r_silverleaf
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Sep 2, 2003
2:28 am
4912
Just a quick hitter for those that might need a backup copy of Darklands on diskette to support their original cds - or if your in need of a map/manual - this...
Silverleaf
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Sep 3, 2003
3:05 am
4913
Was trying to install the game after many years- i have all 10 original disks plus original patch v.7 disk. My original version was the 8/7/92 diskset (version...
travillaintim
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Sep 3, 2003
11:49 pm
4914
Does anyone have any information on who actually owns the Darklands property now? From the Atari corporate site: "Infogrames Entertainment SA completed its...
Cellulear
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Sep 3, 2003
11:57 pm
4915
When Hasbro bought Microprose, they had a sputtering division called Hasbro Interactive. HI was trying to develop and market electronic versions of their more...
Matt Wirkkala
mwirkk
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Sep 4, 2003
1:16 am
4916
... [mwirkk] There are a couple of problems. 1) If you have a error while installing from the diskette media, but you do not get a disk read error when copying...
Matt Wirkkala
mwirkk
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Sep 4, 2003
1:56 am
4917
... [mwirkk] <snip> ... [mwirkk] <snip> [mwirkk] BTW - Once you do get it installed, you could likely have some additional problems trying to get it to run on...
Matt Wirkkala
mwirkk
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Sep 4, 2003
3:15 am
4918
Thks for the reply. I was using that english installer - thought it was a universal installer :) that is misleading lol. Anyways i went back and checked the...
travillaintim
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Sep 4, 2003
3:29 am
4919
Thx for heads up - went and grabbed them. Will i need to use "moslo" in conjunction with "Dosbox" or i no longer need "moslo" ... was ... beginning ... say ......
travillaintim
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Sep 4, 2003
3:36 am
4920
... [mwirkk] <snip> [mwirkk] MoSlo is of pretty limited use these days. It was only useful on certain hardware. Chances are you didn't need it anyway....
Matt Wirkkala
mwirkk
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Sep 4, 2003
3:45 am
4921
... [mwirkk] Ya, `sorry about that. ... [mwirkk] I sent you one already. ... [mwirkk] We don't have a hack like that. And if we did, we'd probably have to have...
Matt Wirkkala
mwirkk
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Sep 4, 2003
4:01 am
4922
Thanks Matt - my disks installed fine now. Now if i could just get DOSbox to see my drives ill be in business. I saw this problem listed somewhere... and now i...
travillaintim
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Sep 4, 2003
4:35 am
4923
aha!!! found it :) ... listed...
travillaintim
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Sep 4, 2003
4:40 am
4924
You needed to mount the drive volumes for them to be seen within the vm, true? -MLW :) ... get...
Matthew L. Wirkkala
mwirkk
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Sep 4, 2003
6:43 am
4925
yep - all runs fine except ive got odd sound at start up and no sound in game. otherwise it runs smooth ... the...
travillaintim
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Sep 4, 2003
11:58 am
4926
... Not from the looks of it here. My disk 2 died as well, but I thiankfully had a complete zip from a previous install. I'm just going to spring for the CD on...
xterminal@...
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Sep 4, 2003
12:14 pm
4927
Two idle thoughts. ... Thanks for the quick rundown-- I had no idea Atari and Infogrames were one and the same. And I've been wondering this for years-- what...
xterminal@...
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Sep 4, 2003
12:30 pm
4928
... [mwirkk] What version of DOSBox are you running? Also, you may need to run the INSTALL.EXE to set your sound settings. (It's unfortunate that they use the...
Matt Wirkkala
mwirkk
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Sep 4, 2003
4:48 pm
4929
... [mwirkk] I don't know. It's a French comapny, if that helps at all. I think their web-site has a detailed company history somewhere. We don't have too many...
Matt Wirkkala
mwirkk
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Sep 4, 2003
4:57 pm
4930
my girlfriend is french. post the site and what you want to know :) ... 5:22 AM ... MEAN, anyway?...
travillaintim
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Sep 4, 2003
5:38 pm
4931
running dosbox 057 & vdmsound 2.04. music is all i have problem with now. its very choppy. currently i am launching the dosbox(with vdmsound), mounting the...
travillaintim
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Sep 4, 2003
11:20 pm
4932
Hmmmm. Seems I was not entirely accurate. Looking at the Infogrames corporate web-site it says, "The Company gained all rights to the Atari license when it...
Matt Wirkkala
mwirkk
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Sep 4, 2003
11:28 pm
4933
... [mwirkk] Well, I didn't quite mean to ask if anyone can translate. Atleast, not "translate" in a literal sense. I was looking more for an interpretation of...
Matt Wirkkala
mwirkk
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Sep 5, 2003
12:17 am
4934
... [mwirkk] <snip> ... [mwirkk] By asking, "is anyone still intimately familiar with its details?", I meant something more akin to what you were saying in ...
Matt Wirkkala
mwirkk
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Sep 5, 2003
2:14 am
4935
... Heck, with all the reversing we've done, they should just hire this group. Even without the source, we can recover at least half of the data straight....
merle
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Sep 5, 2003
2:27 am
4936
... I can't tell you how often that's screwed me up when I've gone out to their site. 10+ years of French (and, being a jengali gringo, that means "I know...
merle
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Sep 5, 2003
2:36 am
4937
From: merle; Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 7:36 PM [mwirkk] <snip> ... [mwirkk] Yah. lol! Mine's the opposite problem: 0 years of French, so my...
Matt Wirkkala
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Sep 5, 2003
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