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Fantastic game. I had the table game. Works in XP :brain:

i love this game

just to think i actually have a original tape for c64 of this game :P

Actually the boardgame here was called Star Quest - I have it :P It was very complicated to me when I was 12 years old, especially because the manual was badly translated from English to dutch, with a lot of English words being directly translated, losing its meaning.

Odd, the game runs very fast on my computer. I am running it with sc.bat and I even tried adjusting the speed down to /1 (1%) but it still runs just as fast. It is almost as if moslo isn't working for me.

I also tried using dosbox, but the mouse acts funny. The game cursor is stuck in the middle. My arrow cursor is visible and I can move it, but the game cursor only responds to the clicks, not the movement. The game doesn't let me click on anything with the arrow cursor.

Now, I can play it in the fast state, (with less enjoyment) but I have another problem. I cannot seem to fire at anything. If I click the fire button, a yellow grid is flashed for a moment and disappears. If I hold the left click on the fire button, the yellow grid stays up, but I cannot do anything until I let go of the button and then it disappears again. This could be related to the speed, perhaps it is clicking too fast for me to keep it up. Also, if I enter the isometric view through the use of the button in the lower-left corner, I cannot seem to escape it. If I click the button again, it flashes the 2D view, then it goes back to the isometric one. As before, if I hold it, it will stay on the 2D view until I release, but I cannot do anything till then.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help in advance. :)

i have same mouse prob with dosbox (missing mouse driver maybe?)

but it wont run at all in xp . it says there's not enough memory!!!!!?
i've tried changing the compatability to win 98 ect but still no go

any ideas chaps?

Run it in a real DOS OS and use a CPU killer utility (like Mo'slo) to slow down the game. I had to slow down my DX4/100 486 machine down to 20% for the game to work right.

Drake: Which version of Dosbox are you using? Personally, I'd try at least three, that being 0.61, 0.63 and 0.65. You can have more then one copy of DosBox installed at a time, remember.



Remember this little game from back when I still had my poor 486 (:( sob, sob).
Was fun for a while, but eventually it started to get boring.

By the way, one of the Imperial Fist order cards ("Heavy Weapon", I think it was called) has a bug that if exploited will allow you an unlimited number of moves and shots in the turn you use it.


I have MOD files with the music for this game somwhere in my archive. Will look them up this evening and send them onto Abandonia's FTP.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(red_avatar @ Nov 7 2006, 03:54 AM) [snapback]265604[/snapback]</div>The Star Quest tabletop was crap deluxe!!!
I had the german version and the naming of the aliens was terrible.
F.e. Androids were named "robotlings" which gave them a neat name - but they´re not neat...

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Drake3 @ Nov 7 2006, 04:42 AM) [snapback]265606[/snapback]</div>Please hit Control + F10 to lock the mouse. Please read the DOSBox Readme for more hotkeys & infos.

Hmmm.... the category of the game does not fit on the mainpage. It´s not action - it´s strategy (because it´s a turn based strategy game. There´s also a small typo in the text... are instead of area) (OK, not important, but true)
<_<

Have fun playing and always take more than one squad to each mission...

regards,

Falcoix

SPACE CRUSADE!

Ah...probably a really stupid question, but where does it tell you where the words you type in to get round the piracy thing at the front are?

If started with the sc.bat -> just hit enter to continue :ok:




<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Thaluikhain @ Nov 7 2006, 12:53 PM) [snapback]265661[/snapback]</div>

I finally decided to join this forum, after downloading many of those fine, classy games!



I run the game with VMS Sound, and it runs very decent. Optimal speed, sound, and no cursor jams or the like.


I really like the WarHammer 40K series, keep´ em coming! :ok:

EDIT:

One question, how can I exit the 3D - mode? when I hit the lower right button, nothing happens :(

Thanks Falcoix, that worked! :brain:

Since I can use Dosbox now, I can run it at the appropriate speed. Also, the sound works too. :)

I wonder why the mouse was locked though? That never happened to me with any other games a ran using Dosbox. Well, at least now I have learned about it so I will be able to handle it in the future. Also, next time I have a problem in Dosbox, I will check over the Dosbox manual first to see if there are any solutions.

Thanks again! :kosta:

Edit: Ok, so I do have one more small question. Does this game have sound effects or only music? I am getting music, but when doors are opened, shots are fired, space marines die, etc. I hear nothing extra. If anyone can confirm this for me I shall try to fix it (I have some ideas) but I want to make sure I am not wasting my time.

Awesome :D :) :kosta: :kosta:

that game ruled big time in the old days on Amiga :) is the expansion also in the game(The Voyage Beyond) ? or was that an Amiga only expansion pack with extra missions ?

Is it me or does this look like Warhammer 40K?

It is in the Warhammer 40.000 universe, so yes it looks like Warhammer 40K. Just like Spacehulk is in the warhammer 40.000 universe.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Drake3 @ Nov 7 2006, 04:02 PM) [snapback]265715[/snapback]</div>You can switch between music and sound effects by pressing F10. Don't know if you can have both music and SFX on at the same time though...

Thank you so much!

F10 is what I needed. I don't mind losing music for sound effects. Sound effects are more important to me. :)

Hehe, both my problems were fixed using F10. (Ctrl + F10) I suppose I need to try that button more often. LOL

Ah those crazy space marines, runnin' around, slaughtering anything that doesn't look human! :ok:

That's not the way you should say it.
"Those glorious soldiers of the divine Emperor valiantly purging the Xenos filth from His blessed domains" is the proper form. ;)

This, Ladies, is an ABSOLUTE classic. Highly recommended to everyone who likes round-based, tactical games. I've reactivated this gem on my GP2X a few weeks ago. Can't stop to play a few rounds before i go to sleep :kosta:

There is a protection question when you start up the game... the manual you guys provide is just one page and it's very hard to find what word I need to provide them.

How do I find the word on
page 19
paragraph 1
line 3
word 7
?

Im still amazed so many peoples have been able to reply about the game even tho no one had acess to those codes... not from this web site anyway.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest_Aramax_* @ Nov 8 2006, 07:09 PM) [snapback]265936[/snapback]</div>
Start the game with "SC.bat", it´s already cracked and needs no codes!
:ok:

Am I the only one who can´t select target, when I chose to shoot , and not hand to hand combat ?

Edit, I have just read somewhere else, it could be someting to do with moslo configuration. In SC.bat

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(red_avatar @ Nov 7 2006, 03:54 AM) [snapback]265604[/snapback]</div>hmmmm perhaps you should read this wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Crusade

Hehe I have this on a Gremlin cd from years ago, awesome game! If I recall correctly, Lotus: The Ultimate Challenge, Premier Manager 2, and Zool 2 were on the same CD. I had so many hours of fun with that CD ^_^.

Oh, if anyone's interested in the actual manual (all I saw was a one page txt file), I have it. I could scan it if you want it.

I like this game and I don't like this game. Think the idea is cool but this is one of those games where the computer cheats you. 9 out of 10 attack rolls I did came up 00 While the computer alot of the time hits 20 30. Other times where I did get any kinda score in the role it'd be like 01 or 03.

Like the game tips say the guy with the bolter is utterly useless. The fun comes from when you do actually manage to get a high roll and the marine is using a plasma gun and has several enemys lined up and kills all of them which the same thing can be done with a missle launcher.

I still recomend it if you have the stamina to put up with the dumb dice rolls. Even though a single game can take a really long time it sometimes can be fun. I also played it at 6000 to 7000 cycles to speed things up in Dosbox course then I hard trouble single clicking things.

That's what you have Targeters for. You take one Targeter coupled with Bolter, you have them on all Bolters.

Imperial Fists should take heavy weapons on all their troops - Suspensors allow their HW troopers to move as fast as the Bolter troops do, while Combi-Weapon and Bionic Eye make your commander an unstoppable plasma-gunner (of course, whatever your strategy guide tells you, Imerial Fist commander should be packing a Heavy Bolter). Don't forget to take Targeters on the Plasma Gun and Missile Launcher, either.

Blood Angels in turn should concentrate on close combat.
Close Assault Blades allow you to attack the enemy diagonally. IIRC, most of them won't even really be able to retaliate. Couple with Bolt Pistols and Bionic Arm for the Commander. Maybe also a Melta Bomb or Force Field. With the first, your Commander will simply FRY any Dreadnought stupid enough to come close (useful in Search & Destroy mission).

Oh, and anyone knows about that supposed expansion for the game? Was it ever published for PC version?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(the_fifth_horseman @ Nov 9 2006, 03:29 PM) [snapback]266077[/snapback]</div>No idea on the expansion, but an hint for the use of the Close Assault blades (Blood Angels).
Attacking diagonally also will subtract one dice from the defender.
So it´s you having 3 light dice and an ork has only 1 instead of 2 dice. And a gretchin..... yes, 0 dice. Which is not much....

:sneaky:

Yups. So I remembered it right, at least for once.

The 3d view of this game feels very much like a precursor to "UFO: Enemy Unknown" and later "X-Com: Terror from the Deep"...

Got that very same cd version (lotus,sc,pm2,zool2) :P Lotus3 - could not save the scores XD, spaceCrusade... almost beat em all :D some missions are just very hard, pm2... eh I suck at it :P And zool2 - stack overflow error or something - always happens in second lvl

Now to crusade - there is an expansion out there? by which name it goes?

About dice rolling - I somehow think clicking the mouse at the right moment can help, but it cannot be proven. I have had occasions when I roll good even not clicking anything. But on the overall I think I have gotten better rolls when I clicked in the right moment. Could be psychologicaly induced still --- I was quite young when I was playing this :P

I prefer blood angels, close asault blades, 2 or 3 bolters, bolt pistols, attacking diagonally etc. Dunno why, but I prefer melee. Its quite a gamble tho :P Maybe get 1 heavy hitter for swarms of gretchins? So you fry em all in 1 shot :D

You know about armor classes ya? If your dice is below the armour class of the opponent 0 damage will be inflicted.

And for plasma - it shoots straight lines, while the rocket launcher has a blast radius for shooting down clusters of little buggers (damage is dissipating with range) - careful not to fry yourself (easily done if your men are too close). Now the minigun... eh :P With that u can shoot separate targets - if you roll 6 (3+3) you can shoot 6 gretchins, 3 orcs etc. or any combination.

meltabomb+blood angel commander+blind grenades was there something more? (so you get another turn to finish em without them blasting your assez off).

the craziest thing is "Master controls" - you can close/open any doors on the map :P Killing all units that are unfortunate enough to stay on the doorway. Btw - do I get points for enemies killed like this?

The Voyage Beyond, is the name of the expansion.

So it was out for PC?

I was really looking forward to playing this. But i was somewhat disappointed afterwards. I can work with the slow and annoying interface, but they did some changes to the board game, that make the result not much fun (imo)

1. Removing the penalty for SM killed, no need to choose between firepower vs. heavy penalties. I loved (as chaos player) in the board game to focus mainly on the HW chars. So the players actually started to consider Bolters. In the PC game especially for IF its always all HW.

2. Equipment and Orders for Bolters do not consider Heavy Bolters/Bolter with Axe. (This is Targeter,Bolt Pistols,Close Assault Blades,Close Assault Order) This especially hurts the Close Combat focused Blood Angels, making them the least effective Team.

3. Scanner somewhat retarded. Might been the only way to implement the whole blip thing, but i like the Board Game version better. Leads to a game where you dont scan and storm blindly into rooms and clear them with almost no active part on the side of the chaos player.

4. Bad AI. Heavy Weapons CM attacking me in close combat. Dreadnought not opening doors. Random events targeted on random squad member instead of more dangerous ones. Im not sure if the AI cheats, but sometimes it looks to me like it repeats a roll that yielded 0. But i remember from the Board Game, that there was alot of luck with the rolls. It sucks tho to keep rolling 0 with 3WD ;)

Im glad i still have the Board Game (tho noone to play with) and seeing this game make me actually consider writing my own SC :D

Ace I bought this before it vanished off the shelves was gutted they didn't do the expansion on PC like on the ST. There were Space Ogres and a new weapon, can't remember what it was though.....
Also the board game even had an elder expansion check out space crusade on ebay.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Neikius @ Nov 10 2006, 12:30 PM) [snapback]266274[/snapback]</div>
Haha, I always thought that was just something wrong in my copy :P I had another copy of Zool 2 anyway, but the one on that CD was broke

The game works fine on XP but when i select a mission and click the tick it just goes to the main menu without doing any thing
:wallbash:

I think the game is going to fast.
i click on somthing and it clicks it twice meaning i cant do a lot of things AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!

That's because Space Crusade ran too fast on machines from 12 years ago.
Use DosBox to run it, you will be able to fine-tune the game's speed there.

How am i supposed to use the moslo.com with sc.bat? I really love this game and hate when i can't slow it down...

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Dec 6 2006, 11:46 AM) [snapback]270493[/snapback]</div>Read the post above you. Dont use Moslo, use Dosbox.

Yeah and now the cursor won't work...

Try clicking. The mouse should "lock on" and work normally from then onwards.

Quite an enjoyable strategy game. Sure is a lot cheaper than buying all those miniatures!

Buying and painting the miniatures is more fun, though.

the game doesn't go 3d as it should during firing/close combat - does anyone know why

I think F9 triggered the isometric display.

I recall a nice tip from the atari ST version

(!!! Warning SPOILER !!!):

crushing the Dreadnot with a door destroys it instantly. Lure the machine into a doorway, stand in front of it, use the door icon and voila.

The game seems far too tedious to play today.

That works in the PC version too, if I remember right.

so once again..
this question has been posted twice before.

i can't fire at the enemy. when i select cross hairs the cursor will be locked in place and i can't select a target.

damn it..

Try clicking very short/fast.

tried that. no effect.
also used dosbox..(the mouse dos not work when using db)
i can only open fire with my commander. but with no marine.

_sigh_

hello ppz

moslo says that it cant slow down .bat files. How can i slow down the Game?

Download DosBox. It will surely help.

I ve downloadet this Dosbox. I mounted a c: drive but it dont shows me the Space Crusade file :/ I dont understand this programm :(

for the slowdown: try this http://download.preining.de/programs/SlowDown.exe
about the dosbox, you need to type C: to get in to the directory which you mounted
then dir- shows list of files;
cd -moves in to a directory, where "cd .." moves one level up and for example "cd games" would move in to the games direcotry

jeh i know this with cd.. bla bla. but i cant find a folder where space crusade is in. you know. there is no game folder and no windows folder. But i want to play this fantastic game :D

thx for the slow down programm but it dont works

So... did you mount the right folder? If not, then there's no reason to wonder why you can't find anything...

Have a look here...:)

Hope it helps a bit!

fantastic thx a lot it works. didnt realize that i have to drag and drop the game.exe on the dosbox.

THX

does somebody has a link for downloading space hulk? at this side it is forbidden. :D

Space Hulk will be available for download again on January next year. Until that time, however, asking for/providing download links for it is forbidden.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Nov 7 2006, 06:28 PM) [snapback]265735[/snapback]</div>Thats because this is warhammer 40k...old school version.

Please hit Control + F10 to lock the mouse. Please read the DOSBox Readme for more hotkeys & infos.


Thanks! Love this game, brilliant gameplay...

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Nov 7 2006, 06:28 PM) [snapback]265735[/snapback]</div>It looks like 40K because it is 40K!

:sos: If I click on sc.bat nothing happens, is it just me or did I forgot smething?

Just the little thing called DOSBox.

does anyone know what the dice faces are? i think its but not sure,
red = 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3
white = 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2

Hmm
 

I like this game..but i most say the PC version is crappy ´compare the amiga version...how do i get an amiga version to work...i have disk 1 and disk 2 ..?!? dont tell me i need a second emulator :s

The sound and gxf are alot better from the screenshots i found.

Unfortunately DOSBox is for DOS games only, and you will need a different emulator for Amiga games.

I'm lost !!!
 

Hi Guys,

I've downloaded this game and an emulator (amiga) but can't seem to get it to work, in the load up screens the text is unreadable - just coloured boxes. I don't know what to do *flutters girly eye lashes*

Reading on here it seems that there is a PC version !!! Is there ? Where can I download it if there is and will it run on Vista home premium OS ?

Thanks in advance.

Kim.

There is indeed a PC version, and it's downloadable right here on this site .....:)
It's DOS, so under Vista: run it dosbox.

[Edit]
And before you ask how to do that:
>A beginner's guide to DosBox<
>wtf IS dos bOX AND DOES IT WORK ON wIN xp?<

[Edit²]
Oh yeah, again before you ask: run with sc in dosbox.
[Edit³]
And the game is cracked, simply enter when asked for copy protection code.
[Edit*]
Some peeps have all the luck, simply drag sc.bat and drop it on dosbox.exe or so, the game runs fine that way.
If your mouse won't work, hit CTRL+F10 and click again in dosbox window, should work then.

You'll also have to run DOSBox at fairly low cycles, otherwise you won't be able to fire the guns.

-BUMP-

I played this game years ago on the Amiga, loved it. Now I've downloaded the PC version from Abandonia and can run it no probs via DOSBox, but the sounds crap, not like it was on the Amiga.

By this I mean the Amiga had proper explosions and suchlike, but the PC version only has beeps...is there any way to change the sound settings? I'm running DOSBox 0.72 and Vista.

Please advise...

Unfortunately, that is just how the PC version is.

:crybaby:

Hey, I'm new here. But I've been hunting this game down for over a few years.

I liked the game when I was young, and wanted to see if I could find it. Today, I did. I downloaded and it runs superb.

Except, there's no sound. Is there a way I can fix that?

Are you using Dosbox? "SC.BAT" and the game should run fine with sound.

... at least with what sound there is (ain't much).

Oh, at first I wasn't, but I tried out the Dosbox with your link.

Sounds are back, thanks for the help :)

Also, would this Dosbox work for games slightly younger then Space Crusade? Say... Highway hunter?

For almost anything that ran in DOS, really.

Altough I don't recommend trying to run Quake in it without some serious CPU power (note that multi-core doesn't offer much improvement - none beyond dual core - and x64 none whatsoever). :p

DOSbox is used to run DOS games on modern OS. So, yes it works for Highway hunter.

Thanks, I got it working :D

One more thing real quick: Wheres the button that allows me to equip different weapons my commander and/or marines? I can't find it....

It's dug in somewhere in the menu.
I think you access it by some window with a bunch of weapons shown in it.

Yeah, I just found it.

Its in the area where you choose a squad. Put your cursor over the symbol of the selected squad, and when it starts to blink, click it.

That'll take you to the stat, weapon/powerup, and save/load menu.

How do you get to play Space Crusade
 

All I'm getting after the title screen is "Please type in the word on page 8, paragraph 2, line 2, word 3, and then press return" no matter what I type it does this three times only with different page, line, or word number. And I always wind up in the original dosbox screen with the C drive. What am I to do? T_T:(

are you running the game via sc.bat? if you are, then check the manual on page 9, paragraph 2, line 2, word 3..

On of the best games I ever played, And it was just as good to play it ( Live ) as a tabletop game, on different Gaming convents back in the old days :3:

//ElfQueen

Mouse problems
 

I was also having mouse problems when running under Dosbox. I found the only way to solve them was to run Dosbox in Fullscreen mode ([alt]+[enter]).

I tried disabling the joystick and ctrl+F10 but it wouldn't register mouse movement while in window mode.

Hey, while looking up some videos of the new warhammer 40k online thats coming out, it reminded me of a game I played when I was very very young (around 5-6), after a little research I found out is name, SPACE CRUSADE!

I immediately set about trying to get a version to run, I came across this and to my suprise it worked!

Only problem is there are a few problems...

1: I noticed people keep saying press ctrl f10 to lock your mouse and ctrl F11-12 to speed/slow down the game. None of these work. They don't seem to do anything.

I am playing using the DOSbox0.74, I am running the cracked version to get past that "read the manual" password thingymajig.

But no matter what I do there seems to be no way of slowing the game down.

2: The firing system doesn't seem to work, when I click the button the yellow squares appear then disapear after letting go. Strange seeing as how I can click for movement and also for hand-to-hand combat, it just seems to be firing thats the problem.

Same sort of thing happens when I try to choose my squads, when selecting the bloodravens/iron fists/ultramarines the closing gates go up and down really quickly, and I have to get lucky and let go of the mouse at the right time to get them selected.

Most of these are minor problems, including a lack of sound effects and music.
These are not major problems, but if someone has any advice on how to get the firing system working that would suit me fine. Playing without the sound effects and awesome intro music is bearable, but to only be able to engage in melee combat is gonna make the game damn near impossible.


Edit: Never mind, did some searching on forums and found a guide to setting up dosbox with the NC (something commander) in it, this fixed all my problems. Now I can finnaly play this most epic of games :D

God bless you internet and internet wizards. God bless you all.

They only work in DOSBox.
1. Click the mouse button.
2. Space Crusade needs very low cycle values. I've got a Sempron 2500+ @1,69 gHz and when running DOSBox, 3000 cycles gets the speed about right.
Speed-related issue. If you hold the mouse button instead of clicking it, the firing mode is canceled. If the game is running to fast, it will interpret a click as hold.

Thank you, but the problem wasn;t that I wasn't using DOSbox (I was) It was that I hadn't set the cycle change button to change it enough, it was changing it for 20 each time, and considering it was all the way set at a default of around 10000, reducing it to the playable 1000-3000 was going to take a long time and wasn't noticable at all.

So if anyone else has this problem make sure your cycle changer is set to a decent amount, around 1000 I use instead of 20 xD

Or you could type in cycles=1000 from the command line to set them to that value immediately. :)

:(
 

man i got the same problem i cant resolve what to do???

... you just press enter and don't type anything

btw, you're running sc.bat, right?

yeah man thats work but where is intro screen,and menu,how to save and other stuffs??ty

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/928
-> Manual
-> Reference Card
-> Playing Tips

Yes?

in first time im mount game with dosbox and i got that screen,but now im run sc.bat its working but i dont have intro screen,menu and other things,i can play the game,but its stupid without intro,menu,how to save game hmm???pls help

Did you read the post above yours from Dos, and did you download the manual and other helpfull extras...if so did you read them. Your anwsers are in them. :whistling:

That shouldn't be happening. Please show us what's the first screen the game displays when started.

i just drag sc.bat on dosbox icon and game begins but look how begin i will show you in next few screens!!!
that is way how my game begins my problem is where is intro,menu,how to save game,scaner in game is crappy,no walk sound only music and i just got option to choose mission and team that is all!!!pls help me

First of all, perhaps stop using drag&drop to run games in DOSBox.
The intro is ran by a separate executable - in order to play it when running the batch file, you'll have to add to edit sc.bat and add an appropriate command to it.
http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/att...achmentid=1339
That is the menu.
You can only save it before and after missions. There's an individual savegame file for each chapter, and you can only load it from somewhere in that Chapter's setup screen.
:doh: There's no alternate scanner mechanic and no walk sounds.
That's how the game was made. What do you expect me to do with it?
After choosing one of the Chapters, click on its' logo to enter the setup screen.
You have to read the manual. The reference cards should also help.

Now that it's 2011 and we're all using DOSbox, do you guys think it would be time to take out Moslo out of the package offered here? I mean couldn't you just lower the cycles and not emulate a cpukiller?

Agreed. Mo'Slo only serves a purpose for those who don't use DOSBox and run it on real hardware. Anyone for adding it to the Programs page instead?

Sounds reasonable.