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Great music, too.

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Talon I am having the same problem you had i.e. not getting the vision after Jessica tells me to go to the desert.

What did you do to get it going? as I have already restarted three times and I always get stuck there. I am quite sure I am doing it right as I have played the game to the end several times without a problem with my original copy on an old pc but I have no luck now.

One of the best gamez ever

One of the titles that got me hooked to PC gaming


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[Christian IV]

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I think you have to keep talking to everyone, and also
I vaguely remember there being a message in the
communications room about this point. There were a couiple
of great sites on the net about DUNE with lots of tech help,
some years ago when I was first researching this game, don't
know if they are still there, I will check to see if I can find them
later.. k: ..this is a great game, Westwood was heading out into the
unknown and new territory with gaming with these and the
story line was a big help as the DUNE books, I think there are some
six or seven in the real series, not the follow ups written by Herbert's
son, they are JUNK....the orginal books are very interesting and
a deep parable about our own times and culture..plus the
ecological issues are very interesting as well, but the game
has so many levels, the spice production, the strategy and tactics
these are really classics. k:

[Christian IV]

The Dune novels by Herbert are:

Dune A "feudal" future reality centered on a banished family
who starts to reclaim their power by harnessing the political
and economic power of an exotic drug created by giant huge
sand dwelling worms on a desert ecologic disaster of a planet,
with overtones of ninja-arab bedoin culture, and a young messiah
figure, and a women's cult based on psi and genome science.
To believe in the plot one must believe in psi and suspend
doubt of drug use. a taunt and thrilling beginning to a sweeping
saga...that spreads across the galaxy......it is followed by:

Dune Messiah

Children of Dune

God Emperor of Dune

Heretics of Dune

Chapterhouse: Dune

The Firrsts and the Last seem the best to me, the in between ones
get rather weird, but the overall story is well handled by the games
up on the site here, Dune I and Dune II, except for the wider
galactic things, but they are suggested as well.

[xoopx]

i got dune cdrom version off ebay, cant wait till it arrives.. it has apparently a lot more stuff than the downloadable older version. which you would expect, being on cd
also got emperor, battle for dune

books; dont forget there are prequels written by frank's son and some other guy.
ive read house atreides and house harkonnen, just starting house corrino. theyre ok. about as good as the sequels frank wrote.
none of frank's sequels, or these prequels (or most other books in the world) can hold a candle to DUNE though. it really is a masterpiece.

[Christian IV]

Congrats on securing the CD, I am curious how much more
there is on there, probalby more sound files, and possibly
movies??

I agree re DUNE the orignal book being a masterpiece, it is
really quite remarkable, I have read the series many times over
the years and sometimes i find parts of it easier or likeable, and
at other times change, in and out....but overall it is an amazing concept.
from an earlier post:

The Dune novels by Herbert are:

Dune A "feudal" future reality centered on a banished family
who starts to reclaim their power by harnessing the political
and economic power of an exotic drug created by giant huge
sand dwelling worms on a desert ecologic disaster of a planet,
with overtones of ninja-arab bedoin culture, and a young messiah
figure, and a women's cult based on psi and genome science.
To believe in the plot one must believe in psi and suspend
doubt of drug use. a taunt and thrilling beginning to a sweeping
saga...that spreads across the galaxy......it is followed by:

Dune Messiah

Children of Dune

God Emperor of Dune

Heretics of Dune

Chapterhouse: Dune

The Firrsts and the Last seem the best to me, the in between ones
get rather weird, but the overall story is well handled by the games
up on the site here, Dune I and Dune II, except for the wider
galactic things, but they are suggested as well.

I don't like the Prequels much at all, they are by his son and someone
else and seem totally different, with only faint simlarities to the
originals, Not unusual in the case of carry ons written by other authors.

Dune is a fine piece of work!!

[xoopx]

Originally posted by Christian IV@May 4 2005, 06:41 PM

Congrats on securing the CD, I am curious how much more
there is on there, probalby more sound files, and possibly
movies??

dune the first novel isnt just some of the very best sci fi ever, its one of the best novels, period! such superb storytelling... if the point of art is to provoke feeling in the viewer, dune is one of best works of art of all time. its that good!

the cd version of the game is GREAT. it has voice actors for what is only subtitles in the older version. i dont even have the text subtitles turned on!
i believe it has clips from the movie, but i havent seen any yet. -shrug- if i do see any, it will be in horrible low res, early 90's cdrom speed movie quality = terrible.
the improved animation of flying in the orni is quite cool, but its just an animation.. so i just skip to destination now, same as the old one.
the main thing is the voice acting.

[Christian IV]

k: k:
I agree re DUNE 100%, it is remarkable literature as well as a
great story and evokes in just that first book an entire universe
better and more true to it's self and its own values than almost
any thing I have ever read. I still remember reading for the first
fime of Paul and Jessica's flight into the desert in the night, and
the remarkable way their past luxurious life (yet still based on
remarkable discipline and inner teachings, just hinted at and
then developed thorughout the stories in true zen fashion) how
their past vamished in the great vast stillness of the desert, that
crushing, far reaching, totality of the dry still vastnesses of it,
and how their first encounter with the fremen was so beautiflly
sculpted by Herbert and built slowly into a wider and wider vista.
I am envious of your CD version and must look for it myself,
I am hurrying to build a library of the classic games for we have
a wonderful and perhaps fleeting opportunity to find these games
while some of the resources are still around us. thanks for sharing
some of the details, and for sharing your enthusiasm and appreciation
of this great game of a great story.
(this smiley could almost be a fremen in a still suit!}

[Christian IV]

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OK, there ARE music and sound effect files for the versoin of Dune I
on the site arent' there? I just tried playing it and got zip, nada,
nothing,
Dune II music played fine, ....and when i went into the files which
we can download here for Dune I i did not see any sound files
at first glance.....did i get an incomplete files? I will try again tomorrow
night, am bushed now, but wanted to check with your DUNE pros...

i have a windows 98, but i tried it in DOS, with cd\DUNEUNE
in the dox and still NO sound, lovely graphcis though...it has been a
long time since i played this, and was loookin gforward to it...

any suggestions, out there you DUNE masters?
:bye: