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[QUOTE=DarkMatter;271463]I personally didn't like the game, but I loved all the music.  :music: 
When the Laser Squad was first released I went out and bought the game. I was a tad disappointed with the game play (not my cup of tea), and cursed myself for buying it. But then I listend closely to the music, I loved it. I liked the music that much, I hooked up my cassette deck to my sound card and recorded a couple of hours of pretty much repetitive music.   
For months I'd listen to the music through my car sound system. :band: That was until I got agro at another motorist one day, I threw the tape at his car in frustration without thinking. :hairpull: Oh well, I'll just make another cassette of it. Unfortunately disk 2 of my original had unrecoverable read errors, so I couldn't re-install it. Also, stupid me never thought to backup my originals. Why bother I originally thought, especially since I didn't really like the game, plus I'd already taped the music.  :wallbash: 
I had the game for more than 6 months when I got the disk read errors, so I couldn't really send disk 2 back under warranty. A tad too late. But then again I wasn't too upset about it, so I let it all slide. I ended up throwing the game out about 8 years ago. No great loss I thought.
But recently I was able to get a copy from the net, so I decided to install it onto DOS Box. Unfortunately the music stutters and sounds a bit off. Doesn't really sound anything like the sound I used to get out of my old adlib card.
A friend told me there's supposed to be something in XP you can change to fix this problem. Does anyone know how???
Any help with the above would be most appreciated.
Thanx in advance.
Regards,
DarkMatter[/QUOTE]

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26-02-2015 11:53 PM

Ripperian

Damn, the Cyber Hordes mission (4th) is so fuckin' hard. The Battle Droids are insanely hard to kill. I will try it again soon with granades, bazookas or something like that.

17-12-2014 01:55 PM

Ripperian

I already played the fourth mission eight times. The last time I was smelling the victory, or at least near than ever, and a Cyber Droid got stuck with a door.

The first ones in 5/7 difficulty, the last ones in 4/7.

21-05-2010 03:48 PM

SteveSmith

I liked this game so much I wrote a modern multi-player remake called Stellar Forces (http://www.stellarforces.com). It's completely free and so far I've recreated The Assassins, Moonbase Assault and Rescue from the Mines (as well as a few new missions).

12-03-2010 09:07 AM

Pex

Just finished all the missions. It took me about 6 hours to do it - not much challenge playing against the computer. But then again, it was hot seat option why I liked this game so much when I first played it.

I remember C=64 version being much harder. In the mission with droids attacking the base, you were able to hit battle droid only from behind to cause damage, even if you used the cannon. That made them very hard to kill, since you had to sneak up on them, yet once you did, even a hit from a shotgun was enough. In the same mission on PC, all you need is four people with auto canons to guard main corridors and then you kill droidss on opportunity fire. AI is bad, so they'll just keep coming and often walk past the corridor where the last droid was killed (and your soldier used opportunity fire) to be killed by the next one.

Also, like Spectrum version, there were three extra missions on C=64.

But it was still fun playing this game. It made me wanna playe X-com, but I lost disk and it's still protected here

12-10-2007 11:30 AM

SensiFan

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Originally Posted by Guest

I'm suprised no one in this forum knows that laser squad is a little older than 1992: i played it in a spectrum around 1988/89!

PC Laser Squad is the worst! Very bad interface. What I hate about 16bit versions is "intelligence", same as 8bit versions.
ZX version is the best, it's great there's a lot of new maps and absolutely super cool editor for it !

09-10-2007 03:13 PM

The Fifth Horseman

On HOTU: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?gameid=612

09-10-2007 12:09 PM

Formicas

Is there a manual for this anywhere? The interface confuses me greatly!

29-05-2007 10:36 AM

The Fifth Horseman

You don't need to loadhigh any of the game executables for it to work.
Where did you get your copy from? Sounds like it may be damaged.

26-05-2007 09:45 AM

trepach

Please somebody tell me which .exe I must loadhigh? Whatever I do the result is same - failed to start squad.exe

14-02-2007 11:22 PM

DarkMatter

I don't beleive it. I reinstalled the game, as I'd deleted it a while ago when I couldn't get the sound to work properly, and the sound is working fine. Provided I go into full screen mode, the sound is just like it was on my old adlib card.
Looks like I'll be busy recording for a while.

Thanx for your help the_fifth_horseman.

k:
Regards,
DarkMatter

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