| 23-05-2014 12:48 AM | ||
| theelf |
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Of course!!! Sorry my english  im spanish. Hope is useful for someoneIn real DOS I tested Jim Power in 3 different PCs 386DX40 - 2GB HDD FAT16 - DOS6.22 5x86 133mhz - 38GB HDD FAT32 - 2GB FAT16 - DOS6.22 Pentium 2 333mhz - 80GB HDD FAT32 - DOS7 In all computers, the game freeze, and hangs After many test, I realize, the game dont freeze in the 386 if I play from floppy disk, but have random freeze from hard disk I change the 1GB hard disk, with other smaller, a seagate 160mb, FAT16, and works OK I think, the game have a problem with partitions FAT16 more than 512mb (cluster size?). Works Ok in FAT12 and FAT16 512mb or less In the 5x86 without turbo (40mhz) and Pentium 2 without cache, from floppy the game run OK too It seems this game is very sensitive to two things 1 - Speed of CPU (40mhz max?¿) 2 - disk drive To successfully play Jim Power without any freeze in DOSbox, do this 1 - Download the game with installer, and the trainer 2 - Extract Jim Power file in to a temporary folder, for example "c:\games\jiminst" and mount in dosbox 3 - Inside dosbox, install Jim Power to disc C (install c  , the game always install in a folder called "JimPower"4 - mount Jim Power game folder to A: like a floppy mount a c:\games\jimpower Is important to mount JimPower folder, to have all files in root of virtual A floppy 5 - Copy trainer to A 6 - Before play game, set cycles to 3500, no more! 4 - Start game from drive A: with trainer (cf-jim) 5 - In start screen, press F11 to unlock keys Is important to play game from A drive. From C drive, is cycles are 3500 or lower, the game look like is working OK, but have random crashes... From A drive, and cycles 3500, I finishes the game yesterday without any trouble. From disc C and and cycles 3500, the game work Ok until second stage, when have a crash NOTE: With the installer, the crack is not necessary. Using crack is easy. But if want to use game without crack, just configure the keys and joystick before mount to A |
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| 21-05-2014 11:06 PM | ||
| marko river |
Wow, that's great. Could you please create the the precise instructions how to make everything work? Along with what to type? I will then add it into review page so others can do it too. And thank you
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| 21-05-2014 09:50 PM | ||
| theelf |
Sorry the double post, but after a lot of trial and error... I found the problem!!! The game is made to be played from floppy disk, the game expect the files in root of drive Just in DOSBOX mount jimpower folder to drive A, and in DOS use a floppy The game work like a charm For sure back on the day, i played from floppy  If the game is installed, not need to use crack to play, at least for me, is working well, but of course, game is difficult trainer is a must jejeThanks |
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| 21-05-2014 07:35 PM | ||
| theelf |
Hi!! Thanks for the reply Yes, i see post 8, and download the trainer But in fact, the trainer is not necessary, the keyboard is not working, because you need to install the game. It seems that when you install the game, the copy protection is not anymore The download in abandonia dont have the install file, thats why you need to crack, because is not installed Here is the game with installer, i upload to my server Jim power download with installer Just install, and not need to use any crack/trainer to use the keys But sadly still hangs... dosbox, real dos, whatever I tested in a 386, 486 and Pentium 2 DOS 6.22 with FAT16 for 386 and 486, DOS7 FAT32 for P2 Same problem... maybe a bad dump from original floppy?? I think the only hope is to find someone with the original disks. I tried to buy in ebay, but no luck to find them Thanks! |
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| 21-05-2014 06:28 PM | ||
| Mighty Midget | Hey there. Have you looked at post #8 in this topic? Seems someone found a solution to a similar if not identical problem. Please post again if that does not work. | |
| 21-05-2014 02:39 PM | ||
| theelf |
Hi! sorry my english Someone have a version of this game, that not freeze when you finish level one? I easy way to test, is just leave the demo, the game freeze in random time too Thanks |
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| 25-02-2013 04:20 PM | ||
| eXoDOS | Cracks works great, thanks. | |
| 10-03-2011 10:09 AM | ||
| Michael Ellis |
Thinking of trying it out just to see if the controls are bette then the PC engine version. Which is the worst game on the system I have yet had to play through. The jump controls were horrid and you could get killed by spikes that you had a distance from that was almost the entiere sprite length of your character. |
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| 02-05-2006 01:13 AM | ||
| brett-anderson |
Did you know: there is also a pc engine cd rom version of this game. Very rare. The Sega version, if you'd ask me personally, plays best. The backgrounds are alll different and static, they don't give you sore eyes. Loads of things are different, most remarkably the top down levels all have been deleted and been replaced with platform and shooting levels. Also, the music, sound effects (have I heard these before in Turrican??) and power-up for your gun are different so go check this one out. The SNES version is less difficult than the Sega version, but it is still frustratingly hard. |
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| 08-03-2006 10:25 PM | ||
| Jimmy Bojangles | This is deffinatly going on my Old Games list... | |
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