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Hey every1

just started using this game, loved the previous 2

i had the same problem with the black screen, but i just waited for about a minute then hit enter, waited another minute and it worked.

might hav just been my one, but good luck

[The Fifth Horseman]

See twice

This music cannot be used in the game, though. So my point still stands.

Is there a place where I can download the CD version?

P2P.

[sewen]

This music cannot be used in the game, though. So my point still stands.

No, it cannot - but it's music from the game I think that originally, at least part of music, was on game CD audio tracks.

Therefore it may be recreated and possilbly played again with the last no-cd patch which I mentioned. It wlll however require to know the structure of original game CD.

**or much easier, you may play this music outta emulator when you play the game.

[The Fifth Horseman]

I think that originally, at least part of music, was on game CD audio tracks.

And wrong. I have the CD version - the music is NOT in Audio-CD format, but locked up inside a pretty large data file on the CD itself.

[sewen]

Originally posted by the_fifth_horseman@Dec 20 2005, 02:56 PM
And wrong. I have the CD version - the music is NOT in Audio-CD format, but locked up inside a pretty large data file on the CD itself.

That's bad, but no one will do the patch which allows this if here was not any version on what it could be applied.

The question is, which one is on abandonia and if could be paired with this solution.

Anyway, do you have any idea why the game instead of showing the classic start menu says this?

"PLEASE PUT THE X-COM
APOCALYPSE CD BACK IN THE
DRIVE

OK"

or do the black screen?

* I tried to emualte only C drive, but it's not help either...

[The Fifth Horseman]

If you are using DosBox, then check the readme on how to mount CD-rom drives - it's a little different then normal mounting.

[sewen]

Thanks, but I don't.

I use qemu as it's much faster and capable to emulate true DOS. Sometimes however too authentically.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Then check on the additional parameters you can use for Qemu's drive mounting - especially low-level CD support.

[Ordos]

Ok solved the problem with the black screen, its just black because theres no opening movie, hitting enter to skip it will bring you to the menu screen.

[sewen]

I'm happy that it now works for you. But here IS intro movie :bleh:

It's located in directory smk and supposed to be played through /ufoexe/smkp.exe

if you wish to omit the ESC hitting simply write or do a bat file with xcomapoc.exe skip

: Yes, this looks like right way, but here are no more parametrs to be set in qemu. Perhaps in later releases (tested with qemu 8.0, released yesterday)

or I may start long way to achive an "expert on low level DOS drivers" status