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[Gacu666]

Thanks for the reply ;].

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Petter1979 @ Nov 18 2006, 03:13 AM) [snapback]267436[/snapback]</div>

Have anyone had problems running this game with dosbox? I remember when i used dosbox on this game it ran slow, really slow mouse orientation, game would crash a few times.

Atm i have pulled out a old rig i made for the game, celly 366Mhz SB AWE64 value isa soundcard, and so on. But im using the keyboard/mouse/monitor for my 2nd pc, so i am unable to use my 2nd pc then.

Is there still these problems with dosbox and the game or have they been fixed?
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You dont need the dosbox anymore. Just use the VDMS_apoc.bat and the VDMS sound drivers. You just install the drivers which is an emulator of old sound cards and you use the .bat to play, simple as that and works awesome.

In my example I have an old laptop (266mhz 64mb ram, 3gb hdd 8xCD) and works like a charm, except for the movies (which are slowed down and theyre skipping, but I always had that on old comps), but its nice to lay in your bed and enjoy the old games :P.

[Petter1979]

Well im going to keep my old custom rig for now as a new 2nd pc, since most of the old games works flawlessly on it, here is a few im playing now.

Xcom Apocaplypse
Master of Magic
Moonstone
Pirates Gold

I have used VDMSound before on Xcom Apocaplypse, but my experience were mixed. Sometimes the game worked a whole day, sometimes i had some locups in the game.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Indeed, I can confirm that Apocalypse has a tendency to freeze in VDMSound.
I suspect that this is related to the fact that VDMSound's enviroment simulation is not as extensive as that of DosBox.

[Roadkill]

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Indeed, I can confirm that Apocalypse has a tendency to freeze in VDMSound.
I suspect that this is related to the fact that VDMSound's enviroment simulation is not as extensive as that of DosBox.
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I wrote a pretty damn good way around getting errors on page 38 of this forum, try that and see if it helps... You may also have to set the amount of Ram Vdmsound uses to a bit higher if it's still running slow.

Tip- Get to allied status with Pyske, stun raid them - most of the time you get 7 Pyclones (31.5k per mission) and afew extras like mini rocket launchers ect... well worth it. Raiding Marsec some times gets you PSI blockers (only 1 or 2 if you are lucky) they sell for 4.5k a pop - Has anyone found a use for em, they dont seem to have a use all the times I've tried em?

Tip2- If you dont want organisations to get angry with you every time you fight a battle with the UFO's, set all your vehicles to LOW altitude, henceforth your shots shoot upward and will rarely hit a building and the ufo's missed shots will hit buildings causing the organisations to be unfriendly towards the alien scum and in some cases automatically makes the organisations more simpathetic to your cause.

[The Fifth Horseman]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Roadkill @ Nov 22 2006, 12:23 PM) [snapback]268172[/snapback]</div>

Tip- Get to allied status with Pyske, stun raid them - most of the time you get 7 Pyclones (31.5k per mission) and afew extras like mini rocket launchers ect... well worth it. Raiding Marsec some times gets you PSI blockers (only 1 or 2 if you are lucky) they sell for 4.5k a pop - Has anyone found a use for em, they dont seem to have a use all the times I've tried em?[/b]

Psi Shield was discussed here a few times. It wasn't fully implemented in the game (like several other items), the developers either lacked time to finish it or phased it out at some late development stage.

Tip2- If you dont want organisations to get angry with you every time you fight a battle with the UFO's, set all your vehicles to LOW altitude, henceforth your shots shoot upward and will rarely hit a building and the ufo's missed shots will hit buildings causing the organisations to be unfriendly towards the alien scum and in some cases automatically makes the organisations more simpathetic to your cause.[/b]

Yes, but remember that all damage to the city will drop your score.

I am well into a game on super human (just finished trashing the second alien building), but I have noticed an unusual event that I've seen before. For the last couple of weeks, many of the aliens (arthropods and skeletoids) have not had any equipment. The same was true of many aliens in the building. While this makes it very easy to slaughter them all (especially fun using the Marsec power sword), it makes the game a lot less fun.

Has anyone else witnessed this? What seems to cause this alien equipment shortage? It would make sense if I had destroyed their manufacturing building already, but I haven't.

[laiocfar]

Maybe they are stockpiling to finish you off, the easy battles are to make you feel confident and powerless when they deploy all their firepower :P.

No, never heard of something like that until now. In my superhuman game, i blowed near the half of alien city and still found they armed to teeth. And still have many problems with that Megaspawn that can kill a whole team if caught uncover or ambushed.

Another point against flying low to avoid damage, is that the destruction to the city will result in the economically collapse of Goverment so no more Senate fund and you will have to survived from seized weaponary (forget of use heavy weapons in general and ambush or semidefensive tactics) or from selfmanufactured weaponary (each veteran trooper killed will result in the lost of a very valuable amor).

[lololycos]

I've a problem my 1995 versio of x-com apocalypse dont work on windows xp.an Someone help me precisely please.(Note:I dont speak english verry well so can you use simple vocabulary)

[laiocfar]

Maybe someone can speak your native language and sent you a pm in it. Anyway, tryed DosBox?

[The Fifth Horseman]

As you already found out, trying to run the game in plain Windows is not a good idea.

I strongly suggest you use DosBox or VDMSound. You can get them from our programs page.