Cannon Fodder
 

Feel free to comment and discuss this game here. Also, if you have any useful tips or tricks don't hesitate to share them with the others! Thanks!

Review and Download (if available)

Does the Song "kill me with your gun" really exist, or it was only made for the game?

All the music in the game was produced by Jonathan "Jon" Jools" Hare and Richard Joseph.

You could buy a seperate cd with only the music from the game, but as far as I know... these cd's do not exist today.

You can, however, download the music from the net.

I Suppose that Kazaa or anything like it would help.... :)

Not really.

The best way is to visit this site:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/alexi.t/cannonfodder.html

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thanks a lot! really! i was searching for this song :) :)

Ok?..

That site just crashed... :(

Try this one instead. (You might even get some ideas for other old games to play).
http://amigames.soundbomb.net/games_c.htm

Thanks again :)

actually I got the handle I use in any on-line game from Cannon-Fodder. Played it as a kid and always loved it, will never forget. However I never ever got the sound to work so I have no idea what the fx or the music is like to this day.

Did you play the game in DosBox? You can get it from this site. With it you shouldn't have any problems with sound and music. And don't forget to set the music to some MIDI card if such setting is available there (is quite some time that I played that game), it sounds better. ;)

This is a great game. I really got into it on gameboy and sega. But not on the computer, there are just too many other games on computer that you can't play on gameboy or sega.

Oooh, this game's kinda cool.

But, da number 2 is better...

Actually, I think the graphic is worse in part 2.

is there a download link for the full version anywhere plz?

thx advance

ok according to this site, there is sound available for Cannon Fodder,

i gett he music, but where can i get the sound

it requires SOUNDBLASTER, where can i get that from? ?!

What Operating System are you using?

im using XP, AMD athlon tm (XP) 2100+
1.73 GHZ
256mb of ram

How do you run game? (DOSBox, VDMSound or Win98)

i use DOS BOX

Run install.exe, set up sound and music settings same as in DOSBOX (default on my comp is Sound Blaster16, IRQ7 DMA1) and save settings. After that run the game.

does anyone have the manuel so i can play? my version ( off my cd) is asking me for page X line X word X : so u can play

anyone know how to fire grenades?

Cheers

hold down the left mouse button and click the right mouse button

lovely jubly :ok:

errr... lil help? how do i install this on win xp? i get the classic installation screen and when i click instal it asks me which floppy drive a or b, it wont fit on a disk and i have no b drive since 93'

HELP!

I am not sure,
but it might be possible to mount & Install it with Dosbox /-

tried to mount a:\ but still can't install from here
no biggie since it seems to remember the settings for the soundcard anyway.
however the sound is still not working (using dosbox 0.63)
anyone know why?
I7 A220 D1

Anyone know how to reunite a soldier with his comrades once you've seperated him so he can go solo???

Can anyone help me. When i play it, the screen goes....lets say that its VERY HEAVY SNOW-THING. Il sent a screenschot when i get one.

I LOVE THIS GAME :w00t: :w00t: :w00t: Its fun but The controlls take a little while to get use to after you get the whole move keys shoot with mouse thing down you will be sucked in for hours!

For some reason the game doesnt work on my comp. :not_ok:

try using dosbox if your using winXP

i cant delete the game off my computer, i am always left with the file "LATSYRC2.exe" it keeps saying the file is in use by another program, anyone else experence this?

Yes, take the soldier who's by himself and run him into the rest of the squad :ok:

could someone please explain what to do having downloaded it how do you get to play it step by step instruction would be good and i dont understand how to start playing it am using windows XP and there just seems to be millions of files when i open the Cannon Fodder file ???

http://www.abandonia.com/main.php?nav=index&FAQ=1

I played Cannon Fodder alot as a kid, but on Amiga 500. I loved it! I just hate myself for selling my Amiga, the best games I've ever played I played on Amiga.

Yeah this game was amazing, i will always remember that demo for the Amiga 500+, i got it on a magazine, and couldn stop playing. can't get this to download though, can do it on freeware, but you dont get any sound and only half the missions.

Actually the War intro song did play on the 3DO version I had.

Hmm... the I have sound problems.
It stutters... don't know why. :(

It is a very clever game, due to its silliness, I guess. Everything - graphics, sound, gameplay is working on the idea - that war is bad.
The only screen with new recruits with the graves on the background gives me the creeps even now.
BtW, I cant spot the main title song .. Where is it exactly? :cry:

Guest_dan asked how to reunite your squad after someone has been on solo. My question is the opposite: How can you separate a soldier from his group? I used to play this game a lot when I was a kid, but I can't remeber how it goes.

loading the game sucks!!! i got to mission 10 with jools and jops still alive, they each had like a 1000 kills and were highly promoted. then when i typed in the code to load the game it starts at mission 10. but jools and jops have no kills and are ranked the lowest you can.
that sucks, so to play it with jools and jops getting promoted and with alot of kills you have to play it through in one go!

ok and another thing, that link to the music wont work for me, i have downloaded but my computer wont play it after ive unzipped it. does anybody have the actual file of the song, that would be amazing.

cheers

I don't thikn the song was in the PC version.

I used to play this on Amiga too :) I remember it has some good song but don't remember how it goes... Gotta download that song from http://amigames.soundbomb.net/music/richar...nnon_fodder.zip when I get home :)

Click on the soldiers you want to separate. Then click the logo (eagle/snake or something like that) above the granade/soldiers/bazooka pic. That shoudl do it :)

I haven't tried loading the game with PC, but I remember I had Amiga save sometimes where I had Jools and Jops and Stoo with high ranks and kills and almost the last missions. The ranks stayed atleast in the Amiga-version.

ok, that zip had those songs in really weird format, but abandonia has this main theme in mp3-format. Just check it under the music-section.

*bounces* I freaking love this game! :D :D :D

My dad took it off my PC when I was younger though :( He hates the sounds.

I've looked at the clock. It was 10 AM
I started to play Cannon Fodder.
Played.
Played.
Played..
Played...
I've looked at the clock. It was 10 AM
Oh. I forgot to change the battery.
I've looked at 2nd clock(In the kitchen)
OMFG! 6 PM!
Then, I downloaded Cannon Fodder 2
...
Great games! :ok:

Im quite good at nuking my own team!

I need more practice.

The game isn´t bad but the soldiers are very small. If you like such games, try Assault Trooper with better 3D isometric graphics.

:help: how do you run a downloaded game in dosbox? a link to a help page would be appreciated :cry: Too many smilies.

Here is a link to a help page:

-->> CLICK HERE <<--

I keep trying to run cannon fodder on my Windows XP using dosbox and it runs for about 1 second untill it errors out and says "Missing file "system.dat"....

Try to download the game again...

Hi
I really want to try this game, but when I download it my Avast antivirus says the zip contains a virus/malware, called "PS/MPC-Gen 3" and therefore I can't install it. Maybe this is an anti-virus error but you might want to check the file.

great site btw

hi there i cant get the game up and running how do i get it 2 work please help

Works fine in DOSBox.

That is a fine game indeed. Both have their charms, but you enjoyed Cannon Fodder you will enjoy Assault Trooper.

It also has much better missions IMO :whistle:

I have the same problem!

Any Idea if it's an error in Avast or whether there's actually a Virus in cannon fodder

I have the same problem!

Any Idea if it's an error in Avast or whether there's actually a Virus in cannon fodder[/b][/quote]
Same thing with my Avast... Any ideas?

I have Sophos Anti-Virus at work, and Norton Anti-Virus at home, and it seems to me that everything is ok.

This is really getting on my nerves so any constructive help would be greatly appreciated.

I know how to use dosbox (a bit), ive got things like Syndicate and Flashback running fine. Trouble is that when i try to install this using dosbox 0.63 it tells me to insert disk CANNON 1 into drive A. There's an ok box below it but pressing 'O' or enter doesnt do anything. How am i supposed to install this coz running it via the .exe directly results in no sound! :wall:

Ive setup my dosbox folders exactly as it says in the dosbox tutorial.

Any help would be great

Ever thought that you don't need to install it somewhere but just to run the game? Run the install.exe or setup.exe or whatever is there to set up your sound and music only, that's it.

I think the file had a virus.

Edited by ReamusLQ for language

Not according to AVG free.
You might want to check on the rest of your computer.

Some antiviruses give false alerts.

Only bird flu in your case... :D

Umm...I seem to have a problem with this download. I try to download it, it seems to download okay...until it gets to around the end, then Firefox tells me that "D:\DOS\Downloads\Cannon Fodder.zip.part could not be saved because the source file could not be read."

Try again. It downloaded fine at my place.

Tried it at college. Downloaded fine...must have been an error my end at home.

For some reason I can't copy the file over to my HDD, and the file keeps messing up when downloading at home.

Do you get an error message when copying?

I read somewhere else when i dl'd this a few months it has a backdoor virus not really sure on correct terminology, my other comp is messed up now, not sure if its to do with that or not but jus thought i should say something

Could you guys give me some info about the useful keys in C.Fodder? I mean, if they are such ones, for example to change the weapons or to switch between two groups of soldiers.

BTW, I've got one important question: is it possible to come back to the main manu (the hill, soldiers in a que and save/load options) while on a mission? Similar question: how to reutrn to DOS/DOSBox in other way than Alt+F4?

Cannon Fodder is from the old Amiga times. I don't think that there are hotkeys, since it was special those days to have a game controlled by mouse only.
But I don't really know... :tomato:

why does it ask me to insert disk to drive a:\?

I use dos-box/XP. No SB sound card. Full sound BUT: From my Amiga days I think I remember this intro song going "war has never been so much fun...". It's not here. Is my memory acting up on me or is it supposed to be here?

Not sure if the PC version has the song. I'm playing the game using WinAUE and war has never been so much fun. :ok:
Lost Jops on phase 4 of mission 4 right at the end. :wall: Time for revenge. :ranting:

i have no sound in cannon fodder 1, in cannon fodder 2 it works. whats wrong, must i install something first? is there a sound option in dosbox? :cry:

I'm still having trouble firing grenades, it's been so long since I played this game!

holding the left mouse button and then clicking the right isnt doing anything, (nor is holding the right button and clicking the left..)

It's getting a little frustrating.. :ranting:

It's meant to be hold the right button, then press the left button. Doing vice versa will move you, then shoot. It works fine for me.

Just an addition to that: I sometimes find that rclick->lclick doesn't do anything. It's not consistent, and I've just accepted that I need a little bit of luck to toss grenades.

Worst...port...ever, the graphics are blocky, and the music is unbearable

I recommend installing winuae, and playing the oldies like they are supposed to be played.

On an Amiga emulator

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ May 26 2006, 12:43 PM) [snapback]232291[/snapback]</div>Not all games for the Amiga are better than their PC ports, but in this case you are absolutely correct.

And BTW, that "go to your brother, kill him with your gun" tune is supposedly from the Amiga version. I think I had my MOD file with it from HOTU, but checking World of Game Mods (www.mirsoft.info) wouldn't be a bad idea either.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(the_fifth_horseman @ May 29 2006, 01:16 PM) [snapback]232957[/snapback]</div>It is from the Amiga version. It was written and sung by Jon "Jops" Hare. Tell me - are there vocals in the PC version of the title tune, as I can only seem to get the damn game working at college and I keep getting an error when I try to download it at home (which is weird because every other game downloads perfectly and I can only download this at the college I'm studying at...)

I remember trying to play this game once ago (when I still had my 486), and there were no vocals in the theme song.

decided to play it again.

Cant get past mission 8, to hard !

anyone got a saved game file for Mission 9+ ?

Can't remember which mission I got up to before I started finding it hard...but I actualy recommend you stick with it. Trust me, it's much more rewarding (mentaly) when you complete a section on your own.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Crystal_sword @ Jun 12 2006, 06:12 AM) [snapback]235947[/snapback]</div>If you have given up on mission 8 you won't stand a chance on mission 9+.
Come on, show them who is boss.

I chalange that. The late levels are usally so very easy! Many times you just take hold of a tank and destroy everything. Not to mention the missle helicopters that and nearly indistructable, it's only hard with that kind of helicopter in the level with the master computer.

Anyways the hostages sure are dumb, so dumb that I got tired of them and stopped playing.

For some reason its not working for me. The mouse moved WAAAAY too fast when it ran, and now it quits when trying too skip the intro movie.

Are you using DosBox?

Cannon Fodder is a SUPER game but I just can't pass level with those bazooka guys :angry:

Yeah, that's where you have to be a real Cannon Fodder freak and try for weeks to manage it. The game becomes in later levels quite unworthy the effort as far too hard, so you either cheat, spend weeks to figure a single level out to details or simply forget it.

:sos: Can sum1 tell me where to get the manuel i need the line thingy or wotever plz help!!!!


I sold my amiga im still beating myself for it plz sum1 help

Try www.replacementdocs.com
Oh, and drop that "plz sum1 help" style along with netspeak/1337speak. They will only automatically cause people to ignore your post.

ok thanks

For some reason it is not lettin me download it?

I had this problem. It downloaded the majority of the file, then seemed to say that there's something wrong when it gets to 99%. I just retried the download (after several months...) and it managed to download...although I'm probably going to download it for Amiga, just because the DOS version doesn't include the lyrics...and I'm an Amiga fan.

Gennerally i love this game, but i hate when i get many level into the game, to a place in the ice-level.
You have to jump over a forrest, with a snomobile...... i hit the forrest all the time :angry:
Also a little later, where you have to do the same thing, and on the other side som guy with a Bazooka waits..... and you have to be very quick to jump out of the snow-mobile.... VERY QUICKLY.... i wasted 25+ men before i finally got him.
If anyone remembers this problem, have anyone found a way to avoid or kill the Bazooka-guy easier???

Erm...recently did a virus scan and CANNON.EXE was found to contain the virus/worm PS/MPC-gen3 (Cannon Fodder downloaded from this site)...please tell me that's meant to be there >_>

hmmm..any idea how i could get the sound effects to work?

Umm... DosBox?

Hello guys, first of a brilliant site and I'm DEAD New! I've installed this classic game on DosBox and it works fine except when playing it in full screen mode, it cuts off some of the top and bottom frame and the sides too!

When in the main menu where all the soldiers come strolling down the hill, I see them coming down it but as they get to the bottom of the screen they dissapear out of view so I guess it cuts off a lot of the screen in full screen mode. However it works fine in its normal window.

Anyone else with this problem or know how to resolve it?

I've tries changing my screen resolution in PROPERTIES without any luck!

Thanks in advance to anyone who may be able to help.

Go to Dosbox.conf.

Where it says fullresolution=original, change it to say fullresolution=640x480.

By the way, yes, the mouse acts weird in both Dosbox AND Windows itself. Adjusting settings only makes it worse. After a while, the game stopped running at all. Recently, avast! anti virus gave a positive on the Exe file.

And yes, I downloaded it here. 3 times.

hi everybody,

i love the title track of the game and it was no problem to get it.
but i do love the sad song when fallen soldier get burried/honored even more.

can anybody tell me where i can get this song from?

thanks

Sorry, Abandonia only hosts the main theme in t3h mp3-format.

Aaah finally I've got it! Just need to setup the game from DosBox and then start it.

i used to play this on my amiga 600... i was very impressed by the way soldiers died LOL

The version on Amiga had better graphics than the PC version, though.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mjuky @ May 3 2006, 12:28 PM) [snapback]228303[/snapback]</div>You don't need to install the game, actually. =) Just use dosbox and enter the install prompt. Select Configure>Sound, select Soundblaster Pro and set Interrupt to IRQ7, leave everything else the way it is, then in Configure>Music also select Soundblaster, then exit and save settings. You may then use dosbox to play the game from the CANNON.EXE file without installing it, with full sound and music and everything. =) :max:

Cannon Fodder is a my fav. game . :) Really godlike classic and music in is best of the best.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Jops @ Jul 6 2007, 11:27 AM) [snapback]298152[/snapback]</div>Cannon Fodder RULEZ my favorite game too!!!

Played this like fools in the military (Had my AMIGA in our "living quarters) !!!!

This game has a virus...Avast! antivirus has detected it while I was downloading it...it´s a worm. :angry: Luckily Avast! has aborted the operation. No one has realized it? :huh:

It doesn't mean anything. The world editor in Dungeon Keeper Gold for example is also detected as some WIN95 virus with Avira's Antivir, but that doesn't mean it is, too. Just some strange issues with the modern anti-virus programs.

Well, I got the game working but my mouse just go crazy when the game enter in combat mode, the cursor jumps to the border of the screen no matter how I move it... and of course in the install thingie only got mouse option for controller.

What can I do? I´m ussing DosBox with D-Fence in a winXP.

Try to check "auto lock mouse" in the D-Fend game configuration. Maybe this might fix it...

I remember Cannon Fodder 1 and 2 =) Hours of fun back then !

Hey I don't know if anybody else had this problem but when I first tried The game the mouse wouldn't stay in place. If anybody else has this problem all you gotta do is edit the profile and in "general" click on auto lock mouse.

how do i re-join squads?

Cannon Fodder is now being sold at GOG for $5.99. :)

Download removed, thanks for the heads-up.

And what now?
Since they sell downloads and not tactile copies at GoG's this can be sold forever...it just sucks! :sick:

At least as long as GoG exists. We'll see how it turns out.
At any rate, anything that makes these games legally available is good. :)

Mission 8 / turrets
 

Hi everyone,

it seems enemy turrets can't be destroyed by rocket or grenade fire in this version. I got stuck at mission 8 phase 2 ("In at the deep end") where I fired several rockets and grenades at a turret but it wasn't destroyed. I think this is a bug - or whatever you wanna call it. Anyway I think the game is impossible to finish with this problem. I've seen videos on youtube with other platforms (snes) and they can destroy turrets with a simple grendade/rocket.

Did anyone encounter the same problems or am I doing something wrong?

/myname

That's mission 9 phase 2 in my version (the map where you start on a small island with two boxes of grenades).

Anyway, I have finished that mission a few times. There has to be something wrong with your version of the game. I can destroy the turrets with grenades and/or missiles.

Thanks
 

Thanks for your answer, zirkoni. At least I know now that it's not a special "fetature" of the game's PC version.

Yup, it's a bug, however the CD version isn't affected by this issue. I managed to go ahead without problems :)

Haven't finished it yet though, final missions make you crazy XD

Why don't my dead heroes get a tombstone?
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-c...cf_eng_000.png

I want to see the tombstones of my high ranking officers :cry:

cannon fodder 1 & 2 and windows 7
 

has anyone tried both and had them working on windows 7 please

They're DOS games. To run them on Windows 7 you need to use DOSBox: http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=22241

recently i've played the cd version of this game and the missions are quite different from the shareware versioni used to play as a teen. previously i thought the full version would just add more missions to the shareware version. for example , in the shareware, you start in the snow mission where you have to find some grenades to blow up all the houses to beat the mission. but in the cd version it starts with a very simple kill-everyone vietnam mission.

did anyone else here play the shareware and still have a copy of it?

btw, i remember it was possible to "unlock" extra missions in the shareware. can't remember how i did it. i think i pressed excape during the helicopter animation on the last shareware mission or something. anyways i can vaguely remember that i unlocked an indoor "eton" mission, and a rather tricky vietnam mission that was full of trap ready to spear or explode your men.

You play the mission(s) in the snow landscape (Reykjavik) in the full version too, only you arrive there later and not from the beginning. The shareware version was primarily designed to preview the diversity of the game, hence why you place various missions in it, which you move slower to in full version. Same with the Vietnam missions which you arrive to later, though it's more through progression than any particular unlocking method.
You just have to play on and develop enough patience to persist until later, as the game can very often drive you nuts with with it's steep difficulty.

Just listen to this music, isn't this awesome or what :max: