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[RaviN]

I've found myself addicted to this game but yea, I've gone through the whole game now.

Thought it would be fun to play against another hume instead of the com all
the time, but no way to enable network play? :wondering:

[zoolooau]

Hey all, I dunno if anyone has answered this already, i was gona look thru all 300 or so posts but 99% of them were about getting the game to work. So my question is, I know how to put trees etc. into yards.... but how do u take them out again if they complain about them?
Thanx

[Hotel Detective]

It's been a while since I played but from what I remember...

Under the map/TV monitor on your screen, there should be an icon for gadgets. I think it's shaped like a christmas tree, though that might be the factory production screen.
Once you've figured out which button to use, click on it to send out a delivery man to place the object.
(Pro tip: Put a subway station on each estate, and put one right outside the entry to your gadget factory to speed up delivery.)

Some gadets, like PCs and Burglar alarms must be put inside houses. You can either direct tenants to go collect them or, from the gadget factory screen, you can have them delivered to your tenants.

To remove gadgets, send a foreman to demolish them.

[Hotel Detective]

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.

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

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!

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.

[The Fifth Horseman]

My version is 0.69, I don't know if it's been updated

It has. The latest is 0.73, and the one I'm using right now is 0.72. Much faster than 0.6x.

[rossunia]

I've got a problem. I'm using dosbox 0,72 and it works well. But sudenly I see message:

Error = Unable to find movie file

In game settings there is an option:
display all videos animations. I changed value to "no", but it didn't help.

Could you hepl me? please.

[Hotel Detective]

Since you're in the game and fiddling with the options, I assume it's starting up okay and running alright.

Basically, to keep the bandwidth demands down the Opening Sequence, Lose Movie and Win Movie have been cut from the game. You're probably seeing those messages when you either win the game (Based on the win conditions you chose at the start) or you lose.

(You can lose by accumulating 100 black marks by failing to address tenant complaints, failing to complete special council missions or from having your homebase destroyed by gangsters.)

The game would have ended itself if the win or lose movie played, so you're not missing out on gamplay either way.

I think you can find all three movies (intro, win, lose) on YouTube, if you're desperate to see them.

[CONSTRUCTR1]

The videos that show at the start of Constructor, when you lose or when you win.
These were located in a folder called WINDATA in the Constructor game folder (when installed from CD) and on the CD.

CONINTRO.AVI
CONLOSE.AVI
CONWIN.AVI


Constructor AVIs

[CONSTRUCTR1]

DATA.FIL file located in FLICS folder on CD and in Constructor game folder when installed from CD.
Extract FLICS folder to Constructor game folder, default:
C:/ACCLAIM/CN
Contains all the video animations. Includes intro, win and lose videos within DATA.FIL.
You can now select Display All Video Animations : YES

CONSTRUCTOR FLICS DATA.FIL

[kledson silva]

Hi guys I just downloaded the constructor zip file and the dosbox 0.72 and when put the file game.exe appears the following message:

error: unable to create a config file directory

What I need to do?