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Seems the Abandonia copy of the game NEEDS the patch in order to play this game. So many of us can't even get past the second act thanks to the dragon cutscene :wallbash:

Please! Please can someone either add the patch from the HOTU copy, or a save from after the cutscene? I'm so upset I won't be able to finish this great game...thankyou.

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Please! Please can someone either add the patch from the HOTU copy, or a save from after the cutscene? I'm so upset I won't be able to finish this great game...thankyou.
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I couldn't load the savegame in the unpatched version of the game. But it is possible to download only the game-files from HOTU. Just select to download individual files, and don't download the voices.r*-archive. And you must also select no digital sound when running setup. Besides this, I think you can run the installation the same way as described on HOTU. It would also be possible for Abandonia to make a non-talkie-version from this (as they are limited from sharing big files).

I have some issues with this game.

First, you should know that I play on old Win 98, since it supports most of my own games..But, VDMSound asks for an administrator..And Win 98 doesn´t have things like admins. How do I get the sound to work?
I tried the soundblaster Pro setting and so on, but still nothing but deafening silence.

Second: I know this is a naive question, but -since- I am using this particular OS, do I -have- to use DOSBox? I was just a toddler when I used DOS, and gods know that was about 12-13 years ago, I don´t remember even the most common commands now. *sighs*

I could really need some help on this.

Third: Simon the sorcerer works -with sound- for me, but the game hangs itself about when it asks me to insert disc 3? Even when I first played the game, around 15 years old or so, there was no disc..admittedly I got stuck then too, but then it was waaaay after the mushroom-stew.


Finally, I must admit that I enjoy abandonia, mostly for it´s freeware actually. It´s more fun playing something that a fellow-gamer has done than a company, there´s more "ingame" winks at the player when it´s another player that knows the game/s that came before and so on. Still, I haven´t been able to find a version of Discworld here where I live, not for PC nor Playstation, if I had I would have bought it.

[The Fifth Horseman]

First, you should know that I play on old Win 98, since it supports most of my own games..But, VDMSound asks for an administrator..And Win 98 doesn´t have things like admins. How do I get the sound to work?
I tried the soundblaster Pro setting and so on, but still nothing but deafening silence. [/b]

Simply, you cannot install VDMS on this system.
Try DosBox or reboot into DOS mode and run the game from there (you can use Abandonia Boot Disk - downloadable from our programs page - for that purpose)

I'm playing disc world and the street urchin has just shown me how to pickpocket,
But i cant get it to work on my own. <_<
the only keys that seem to do anything are enter, right click and double left click and when i have the pickpocket ability out, I've try all these things on many characters and nothing happens it just continues to say
That doesn't work! :angry: <_<

[Tito]

Well, it is not a skill you can use with any character. It is useful for solving some puzzles in particular. I remember, for example, that you could use it to get something from a hairdresser.

[Cosmonaut_Roger]

Ah cool, I was having the same problem as everyone else here, but that patch seems to have helped as I can finally get past it. It's been a long while since I played a discworld game, this should be fun!

just wondering if anyone can tell me where to get the fertillizer i need in act 111 thanx

[Tito]

You get some fertilizer at the back of the Unseen University. Hope it helps you.

Hmm, so, I'm having the same problem as lots of other people - after the dragon ceremony, it crashes. Mine doesn't even take me back to the beginning, just closes down DOSBox altogether.

So, just to clarify, the only way to get past this is to download from HOTU?

Thanks! (and thanks anyway - it was great to play this again)