Hi all. OK, I played this game 4 years ago. I somehow lost it and I have pined for it ever since. I bought it last week (in a petrol/gas station of all...
Mark Wilson
mark_tracey@...
Aug 6, 2000 11:17 am
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It may have something to do with windows nt that 2000 is based on a lot of dos games won't run on it ... From: Mark Wilson [SMTP:mark_tracey@...] Sent:...
Scott Gainer
kuban8@...
Aug 6, 2000 4:58 pm
182
... You won't get any DOS programs to access your COM or LPT ports under Windows NT or Windows 2000. I susggest you get hold of a DOS boot disk. You can play...
Brian Ronald
brian.ronald@...
Aug 6, 2000 6:00 pm
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I have the same problem, unfortunatly... I'm about to try running APPCOMPAT.exe and see if that works *runs* nope, but instead of saying COM port 2 its COM...
Ben Vanik
noxa@...
Aug 6, 2000 6:00 pm
184
Never play games (of any kind) on WindowsNT 5.0 (Windows2000). Get Windows 98 Second Edition, or wait until Windows2001 (Windows Millennium Edition) comes out...
ElroyJ698@...
Aug 6, 2000 10:32 pm
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Although I am not the least bit familiar with Win 2000, You might want to see what device is using port com2 and then make sure the device is installed for ...
bcgjaj@...
Aug 7, 2000 1:20 am
186
Uhm, no one listen to this post. I am a programmer as well as a tester for many APIs (was on DX7 while on Win2k beta and now I'm on DX8 beta) - MS didn't put...
Ben Vanik
noxa@...
Aug 7, 2000 2:11 am
187
... Having a gaming API is fine, as long as the game uses it. TT is an MS-DOS game, not a DirectX game, and as such will probably never work properly under ...
Brian Ronald
brian.ronald@...
Aug 7, 2000 6:38 am
188
Hey, I'm a programmer also. Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 w/ Service Pack 4 - my tool of choice !!!...
ElroyJ698@...
Aug 7, 2000 5:13 pm
189
I have 6 years of VB under my belt but last year I taught myself VC++, I'm most intrested in games (I'm writing an engine) but I realize there aren't many...
Ben Vanik
noxa@...
Aug 8, 2000 3:19 am
190
does anyone out there use Linux, Perl, PHP, and general networking stuff? ... From: Ben Vanik <noxa@...> To: <tycoon@egroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, August...
Daniel Nolan-Neylan
daniel@...
Aug 8, 2000 8:12 am
191
Well, since we are all sharing that we are developers... and I am glad to see VB developers, me too! I built VBXML.COM http://www.vbxml.com and am playing with...
Mark Wilson
mark_tracey@...
Aug 8, 2000 10:28 am
192
is it me, or are all people who play TTDLX developers? does this show a certain level of intellect needed to play the game successfully? By the way, what is...
Daniel Nolan-Neylan
daniel@...
Aug 8, 2000 10:34 am
193
... It's a building game, not a kill everything in sight game. Of course it attracts creative people. So... anyone got a Linux port? Anyone got it working on...
Satya
satyap@...
Aug 8, 2000 1:05 pm
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i have a linux box, i used to know some perl, PHP IS THE DEVIL, and i know some networking stuff :-) ... From: Daniel Nolan-Neylan [mailto:daniel@...] ...
Ben Vanik
noxa@...
Aug 8, 2000 3:20 pm
195
very impressive site! P200? I sold mine, all I have is my P90 (linux box right now, but I'd format to DOS to play TT) :-) ... From: Mark Wilson...
Ben Vanik
noxa@...
Aug 8, 2000 3:20 pm
196
... very true! ... it would be interesting, if Win2k can't support it I'd doubt if an emulator could... worth a shot tho (and if it does work, I'd get VMWare...
Ben Vanik
noxa@...
Aug 8, 2000 3:23 pm
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... How about a port? Someone had Chris Sawyer's address? Baughn? You're a big shot now, do something! Doesn't Win2k boot into a command-prompt-only mode? If...
Satya
satyap@...
Aug 8, 2000 6:18 pm
198
I use Visual Basic and Visual Basic Scripting (VBScript). They are very easy, but I mainly love the Visual Basic Graphical Development Interface (GDI), no...
ElroyJ698@...
Aug 8, 2000 7:40 pm
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... From: Daniel Nolan-Neylan <daniel@...> To: <tycoon@egroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 9:12 AM Subject: Re: [tycoon] COM port 2... what...
darren
darren@...
Aug 8, 2000 7:40 pm
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Microsoft Windows 2000 is just like Microsoft WindowsNT 4.0: big corporate server operating system. Sorry, but no good old Disk Operating System (DOS) mode....
ElroyJ698@...
Aug 8, 2000 7:46 pm
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No, I am not a developer, but a die-hard fan. And sorry, but I've never actually finished a game. I find after ou've run out of stations, it somewhat gets...
bcgjaj@...
Aug 8, 2000 11:35 pm
202
I don't think it gets boring once you've run out of stations, because you can always improve your existing lines doing things such as: Converting to Monorail...
Daniel Nolan-Neylan
daniel@...
Aug 9, 2000 8:06 am
203
Block the tycoon mailing address fool :-) ... From: darren [mailto:darren@...] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 3:39 PM To:...
Ben Vanik
noxa@...
Aug 9, 2000 1:32 pm
204
Thats why I still use VB for little things like editors, it's so much easier than learning MFC just to draw a button ;-) ... From: ElroyJ698@......
Ben Vanik
noxa@...
Aug 9, 2000 1:32 pm
205
Get the ttpatch (or something like that), it fixes that problem! ... From: bcgjaj@... [mailto:bcgjaj@...] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 7:35 PM To:...
Ben Vanik
noxa@...
Aug 9, 2000 1:32 pm
206
Hi to all.... I'm a first time poster, just catching up on some of the many emails I got. I would like to offer my two bits worth if I may. TT is a very good...
Aaron Dodds
reaper_one@...
Aug 12, 2000 4:48 am
207
// Hi to all.... Hello :-) // I'm a first time poster, just catching up on some of the many // emails I got. Cool // I would like to offer my two bits worth if...
Ben Vanik
noxa@...
Aug 12, 2000 5:32 am
208
Unfortunately you can only run over an IPX network... too bad, I thought that it had a TCP-IP protocol ... but no. Sucks. I just put it back on, can't get my...
Aaron Dodds
reaper_one@...
Aug 12, 2000 4:01 pm
209
What's your sound card? I have a Creative SoundBlaster Live! and it doesn't work at all on any DOS games, even when I run them in a Windows DOS box...
