For the benefit of (near) future readers, here's the two bits of advice which helped me out.
I ran it with Dosbox (My version is 0.69, I don't know if it's been updated) and I ran it on my Windows XP machine.
I don't consider myself any kind of computer wiz, so this should be in the reach of a casual user.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Taffy
Hi people! Get ready to kiss your build-related lag goodbye :bye:
1. Go into your C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.63\dosbox.conf
2. Look for the following:
[cpu]
# core -- CPU Core used in emulation: simple,normal,full,dynamic.
# cycles -- Amount of instructions dosbox tries to emulate each millisecond.
# Setting this higher than your machine can handle is bad!
# cycleup -- Amount of cycles to increase/decrease with keycombo.
# cycledown Setting it lower than 100 will be a percentage.
core=normal
cycles=3000
cycleup=500
cycledown=20
3. Change cycles to 10000 like I did.
4. Play now or keep reading to see some more tweaks I've done......
5. Noone enjoys playing in a box, even if that is what its called
fullscreen=false
becomes
fullscreen=true
6. Bump DOSbox's allocated memory from 16MB to the max of 63MB
memsize=16
becomes
memsize=63
Happy constructing
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Olson
If you experience lag problems using dosbox, which i did, you can speed up the fps using ctrl+F12, you'll see on the title bar of dosbox how quick you made it, 12000 works well, and i use crtl+8 for frameskip and set that to 3.. goodluck!
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So, thanks to those two guys!
Even with this, the game crashed when it tried to play the "winning" movie, but from that I remember, it wasn't that interesting anyway.
Thanks to the Abandonia folks for having this game around. I've got 3 copies of the game sitting around somewhere (Original shortly after it was released, Bargin Bin Windows 95 version and a PSX version I got as a gift) but I just couldn't get the Win95 version to work on my PC.