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[zirkoni]

Originally Posted by Sobek

Also, would this Dosbox work for games slightly younger then Space Crusade? Say... Highway hunter?

DOSbox is used to run DOS games on modern OS. So, yes it works for Highway hunter.

[Sobek]

Thanks, I got it working

One more thing real quick: Wheres the button that allows me to equip different weapons my commander and/or marines? I can't find it....

[The Fifth Horseman]

It's dug in somewhere in the menu.
I think you access it by some window with a bunch of weapons shown in it.

[Sobek]

Originally Posted by The Fifth Horseman

It's dug in somewhere in the menu.
I think you access it by some window with a bunch of weapons shown in it.

Yeah, I just found it.

Its in the area where you choose a squad. Put your cursor over the symbol of the selected squad, and when it starts to blink, click it.

That'll take you to the stat, weapon/powerup, and save/load menu.

[566bravo]

All I'm getting after the title screen is "Please type in the word on page 8, paragraph 2, line 2, word 3, and then press return" no matter what I type it does this three times only with different page, line, or word number. And I always wind up in the original dosbox screen with the C drive. What am I to do?

[_r.u.s.s.]

are you running the game via sc.bat? if you are, then check the manual on page 9, paragraph 2, line 2, word 3..

[ElfQueen]

On of the best games I ever played, And it was just as good to play it ( Live ) as a tabletop game, on different Gaming convents back in the old days

//ElfQueen

I was also having mouse problems when running under Dosbox. I found the only way to solve them was to run Dosbox in Fullscreen mode ([alt]+[enter]).

I tried disabling the joystick and ctrl+F10 but it wouldn't register mouse movement while in window mode.

[bloomers]

Hey, while looking up some videos of the new warhammer 40k online thats coming out, it reminded me of a game I played when I was very very young (around 5-6), after a little research I found out is name, SPACE CRUSADE!

I immediately set about trying to get a version to run, I came across this and to my suprise it worked!

Only problem is there are a few problems...

1: I noticed people keep saying press ctrl f10 to lock your mouse and ctrl F11-12 to speed/slow down the game. None of these work. They don't seem to do anything.

I am playing using the DOSbox0.74, I am running the cracked version to get past that "read the manual" password thingymajig.

But no matter what I do there seems to be no way of slowing the game down.

2: The firing system doesn't seem to work, when I click the button the yellow squares appear then disapear after letting go. Strange seeing as how I can click for movement and also for hand-to-hand combat, it just seems to be firing thats the problem.

Same sort of thing happens when I try to choose my squads, when selecting the bloodravens/iron fists/ultramarines the closing gates go up and down really quickly, and I have to get lucky and let go of the mouse at the right time to get them selected.

Most of these are minor problems, including a lack of sound effects and music.
These are not major problems, but if someone has any advice on how to get the firing system working that would suit me fine. Playing without the sound effects and awesome intro music is bearable, but to only be able to engage in melee combat is gonna make the game damn near impossible.


Edit: Never mind, did some searching on forums and found a guide to setting up dosbox with the NC (something commander) in it, this fixed all my problems. Now I can finnaly play this most epic of games

God bless you internet and internet wizards. God bless you all.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Originally Posted by bloomers

1: I noticed people keep saying press ctrl f10 to lock your mouse and ctrl F11-12 to speed/slow down the game. None of these work. They don't seem to do anything.

They only work in DOSBox.
1. Click the mouse button.
2. Space Crusade needs very low cycle values. I've got a Sempron 2500+ @1,69 gHz and when running DOSBox, 3000 cycles gets the speed about right.

2: The firing system doesn't seem to work, when I click the button the yellow squares appear then disapear after letting go. Strange seeing as how I can click for movement and also for hand-to-hand combat, it just seems to be firing thats the problem.

Speed-related issue. If you hold the mouse button instead of clicking it, the firing mode is canceled. If the game is running to fast, it will interpret a click as hold.