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Hi guys

First post to this forum, but what a great site for finding all those long-lost games from childhood! I actually had FG so have been playing it on the CD, using DOSBox as the platform.

But disaster! Every time I finish the first continent, the game crashes, on the bit where it goes to the world map.

I notice a few other people have had the same problem but I can't see a solution having trawled through the forum. Apologies if I've missed it, but otherwise...

ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED! I love this game, and would love to have one more bash at it!

Cheers!

Having read some more posts, realise I should have provided some more info - sorry.

I don't get any error messages up, but the game just freezes (although you can move the mouse cursor, it's extremely slow to respond and you can't click through or escape the world map screen).

I've had to play it on about 15,000 CPU cycles, with the music playing through my stereo, although the sound effects work fine (so together - perfect).

I've not tried anything else to try to solve the problem as I just don't know what to do...

Thanks,

PABBY.

Just to let you guys know that the problem seems to have resolved itself. Because I was still able to move the mouse cursor, I left the game running in the background for a couple of hours tonight, suspecting it may just massively slow down for some reason.

Sure enough, returned just now and it's moved on to the next continent.

Apologies for any wasted time. If anyone has any suggestions as to how I could speed that part up, please feel free - although clearly it's not a massive issue by any means. Hope this helps some of you other guys who had a similar problem...

Cheers!

PABBY.

Thanks alot for uploading this brilliant game! Actually it's maybe the best Hexx strategy game that I ever played and I really loved to play it back in the days.. so do I now :-)

[Pex]

Very good game. I played it when it first came out, but lost it somewhere, so I was very happy when it became available for download again. I was always a fan of fantasy and of turned based strategy games, so I was predisposed to like this one.

I want to add here that inspite programmers attempt to make the game more versatile by adding of 4 different types (mortal, magic, mech and beast) I still use almost exclusively mortal units, since you can upgrade those into better units once you research them and keep the experience.

[humorguy]

I have downloaded the wma music and converted to wav, put them in the SOUND folder but there is still no music. Can anyone help me to get the music working? Thanks.

[Luchsen]

Run the SOUND.BAT and change Digital audio: None to Digital audio: Creative Labs Soundblaster 16 or AWE32. Did you make sure that the files have the original filenames?

Hi,
I cannot find the music wma-files some ppl talk about. I remember that I downloaded it long ago, but now there are only links for the manual, install instructions and boxshots. Isn't the music also free for downloading when the game gets abandoned?

[woodkerne]

Hi,

I hope someone can help me out... I dont know how to run this game...

I joined 'Abandonia' when I tracked the FG download here... I also downloaded DOSBox too.

The problem is that I dont know how to unzip the FG file and even if I could I dont know how to run it on DOSBox

I must sound like the newbiest nube in the tube but please help me with advise... much appreciated

[The Fifth Horseman]

http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=14406 explains both.