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I *LOVE* this awesome racing game, although it's hard...
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It's weird that noone speaks of the inabillity to save your progress. I won the bronze cup, but when i restart a chamlpionschip, the silver cup is still locked?? My trial times are saved though but the progress-table, even when I won a race in championship-mode ==> Only red crosses.

When I was 7-8 years old I was a professional, but now i suck

[Grand Dad]

For anyone starting any new game I would advise to it at the easiest level, if there is any. That is what always do where ever possible and then progress to the highest and most difficult. For example I now play Colonization at the Viceroy level! Had I tried it when I first got, sometimes in early Nineties I may have had to give it in frustration ! But then there are games, I think all Sierra games, where there is no choice and it's a matter of hit and miss, trial and error - the only way you can play it.
So good luck. One learns from experience rather than active help or simole advice!

[me_lobo]

It's weird that noone speaks of the inabillity to save your progress. I won the bronze cup, but when i restart a chamlpionschip, the silver cup is still locked?? My trial times are saved though but the progress-table, even when I won a race in championship-mode ==> Only red crosses.

The game is very buggy itself. It does not save your progress if it crashes....

[mengedej]

Just an update for you other people out there who's trying to run this via wine
(wine-0.9.56 on ubuntu 7.10 at time of writing)
I had loads of problems running this because it could not locate the cars or levels folders. Im not sure why but it executes itself in my linux home folder and not where it is "installed", maybe it is due to it not being truly installed (win registry etc) or It could just be a wine, or me?

Anyway, if you pass the correct line through terminal:
cd /home/user/.wine/drive_c/GAMES/REVOLT/ && wine revolt.exe "-C:\\GAMES\\REVOLT\\"
replacing the path with your install dir it should launch properly, well, buggy as it and wine is

I have found an original .iso complete with patches and all. I'll set ut up shortly and see if it performs better under a proper installation and pach-procedure

[dosraider]

If your PC is beefy enough, you would be better of with Virtualbox/W2K for such games.
There are Ubuntu specific ones:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Alas Virtualbox doesn't fully support W98(SE)

Just a thought ....

[mengedej]

--- Install ---
Right, a proper install (10 secs :-) will register the game properly.

--- Registry in case you use the abandonia files ---
I think this is reg entry that does it:

wine regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\App Paths\revolt.exe

values being:

(Default) ; REG_SZ ; c:\games\re-volt\revolt.exe
Path ; REG_SZ ; c:\games\re-volt

or wherever it is installed of course

If this is manually done in the registry via wine you should be able to play the game. Didn't try it though.

--- Patching on linux ---
Before you start
There is a great uppercase/lowercase inconsistency between the original install and the patch, probably doesn't affect windows at all, but on linux Muse1 and muse1 are different.
I renamed all of the inconsistent folders/files (all level folders) and the german.txt
and reapplied the patch

Patch 0916 supplies track editor update and a new revolt.exe, nevermind that one unless you want the track editor updates.

Patch 1207 supplies a number of new files (and new revolt.exe removes protection)

After applying them the game starts in the proper path as version 1.10.
It appears to be more stable after the patch, even though it will occasionally crash, especially during startup and when demos loop.

[mengedej]

Originally Posted by dosraider

If your PC is beefy enough, you would be better of with Virtualbox/W2K for such games.
There are Ubuntu specific ones:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Alas Virtualbox doesn't fully support W98(SE)

Just a thought ....

I have a windows partition as well so I guess I could just boot that up.. :amused:
Virtualbox is till emulation though, isn't it?

[dosraider]

It creates a virtual PC, wherein you can install guest OS'es, so not really emulation, no.

[mengedej]

Their wiki seems to be down at this time, so I can't reallt read up. I assume my processor have to support virtualisation (intel .. VMM I think it's called) to make it work? Maybe its time I convince my wife we need a new one...