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alien2
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Don't worry: I'll not revert to my former nick. But I cannot play the best turn-based game in the Milky Way: Incubation: the wilderness missions. What gives? All right, I have XP and my computer is quite fast, but I don't see how that is relevant. I download the above sequel, I merged REG file, and start the damn game. But those green fast moving aliens, the second they emerge from ducts, the very second they attack! It is impossible to play like this. When they appear near the duct, then they must wait for me to make my move, and only then they should move and attack. Alas, it is not like that. I do have battle isle phase four original, so, evidently, I can play that sequel, which doesn't have the above problem. I whish I could say the same thing for other two sequels, particularly the wilderness missions one. What can I do, if anything? And, of course, no game dealer has this game, because it is quite old, just perhaps Abandonia site, or wherever I downloaded that RAR file. Oh well: beauty is pain.
 
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Re: Incubation
« Reply #1 on: Jun 20th, 2007, 10:07am » |
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How old is the game? Is it a DOS game, and if so do you play it in a DOS emulator? Because if it is, and you don't, perhaps you should. It has solved problems with some old games for me.
DOSBox is a fairly decent DOS emulator, in any case..
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Re: Incubation
« Reply #2 on: Jun 20th, 2007, 11:13am » |
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Good tip, but I tried it in DOSBox0.70-win32-installer, and it says: this program cannot be run in dos mode. So I guess, it is a Windows game after all. One day I am going to tell the Moon about the crying game. 
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Re: Incubation
« Reply #3 on: Jun 20th, 2007, 11:57am » |
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It seems to be a win95 game.
You could try installing win95 on a virtual machine (e.g. vmware, or virtual PC). I haven't seen any stand-alone win95 emulators, so virtual machine+win95 seems the only way.
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Re: Incubation
« Reply #5 on: Jun 20th, 2007, 12:05pm » |
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Virtual PC lets you run multiple OS at the same time... Like running linux on Windows.. There are other products from VMWARE.. and I forgot another company :s...
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Re: Incubation
« Reply #7 on: Jun 21st, 2007, 11:03am » |
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I must be annoying, but when I want to download Virtual PC 2007, it says:
The links in this section correspond to separate files available in this download. Download the files most appropriate for you:
32 BIT\setup.exe
64 BIT\setup.exe
How do I know which file I should download, that is, do I have 32 BIT or 64 BIT computer, whatever that means? I also wonder if I could mess my computer when I start playing with Virtual PC, since I am pretty dumb when the subject is not click and play. Aw.. 
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Re: Incubation
« Reply #8 on: Jun 21st, 2007, 11:31am » |
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If you don't know, you almost certainly want the 32-bit version.
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Re: Incubation
« Reply #9 on: Jun 21st, 2007, 5:51pm » |
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on Jun 21st, 2007, 11:03am, Iceman wrote:
How do I know which file I should download, that is, do I have 32 BIT or 64 BIT computer, whatever that means? I also wonder if I could mess my computer when I start playing with Virtual PC, since I am pretty dumb when the subject is not click and play. Aw.. |
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Heck Icey, just download both, and try them both out. Whichever one works is the right one. And if you did try the wrong one, what's the worse that could happen ? At most you would only have to reformat your harddrive. 
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Re: Incubation
« Reply #10 on: Jul 9th, 2007, 10:12am » |
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on Jun 21st, 2007, 5:51pm, JiNbOtAk wrote:
Heck Icey, just download both, and try them both out. Whichever one works is the right one. And if you did try the wrong one, what's the worse that could happen ? At most you would only have to reformat your harddrive. |
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Is this true or JiNbOtAk is pulling my leg? Seriously, can I play myself with Virtual PC 2007, or the best thing to do is to call a PC repairman and hacker? I mean, what is the worst thing that can happen? 
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Re: Incubation
« Reply #11 on: Jul 9th, 2007, 10:41am » |
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on Jul 9th, 2007, 10:12am, Iceman wrote:| Is this true or JiNbOtAk is pulling my leg? Seriously, can I play myself with Virtual PC 2007, or the best thing to do is to call a PC repairman and hacker? I mean, what is the worst thing that can happen? |
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It would have to go spectacularly wrong for you to have to reformat your drive (or even having to reinstall your OS).
If you've ever installed any program, this really shouldn't be any harder (it's bound to have a normal windows installer).
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Re: Incubation
« Reply #12 on: Jul 9th, 2007, 10:44am » |
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That's it! I am on the 1st plane for Malaysia.. 
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Re: Incubation
« Reply #13 on: Jul 9th, 2007, 11:03am » |
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Most of the programs check for things before they even go ahead and start installation. As for e.g. the install should probably check for 64 bit support using CPUID instruction before installing it on your 32 bit machine. So the install should probably fail. Haven't tried it myself yet though.
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Re: Incubation
« Reply #14 on: Jul 9th, 2007, 11:09am » |
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I don't quite get it yet, but I supposedly created Windows 98 because it doesn't have Windows 95, and then it says: REBOOT and select a proper boot device. Then I press a key and it repeats what it did right before. In short, I don't get anything. Oh well.. Sometimes I whish that I was a computer geek.
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Re: Incubation
« Reply #15 on: Jul 9th, 2007, 11:28am » |
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Or read the documentation? As in geek terminology .. RTFM
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Re: Incubation
« Reply #16 on: Jul 10th, 2007, 7:37pm » |
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on Jul 9th, 2007, 10:44am, Iceman wrote:| That's it! I am on the 1st plane for Malaysia.. |
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Bring it on punk !
Like Sameer said, RTFM, or book, or any documentation accompanying it. Btw, what do you mean you created Windows 98 because it doesn't have Windows 95 ?
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Re: Incubation
« Reply #17 on: Jul 10th, 2007, 11:09pm » |
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I haven't used Microsoft virtual PC, but virtual software let you choose OS images.. so i am guessing this one didn't provide one for win 95...
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Re: Incubation
« Reply #18 on: Jul 10th, 2007, 11:24pm » |
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Ahh, yes. But then, why should they ? I mean, who uses Windows 95 anymore ? 
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Re: Incubation
« Reply #19 on: Jul 11th, 2007, 1:02am » |
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on Jul 10th, 2007, 11:24pm, JiNbOtAk wrote:| Ahh, yes. But then, why should they ? I mean, who uses Windows 95 anymore ? |
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People playing games that only work under win95, probably.
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Re: Incubation
« Reply #20 on: Jul 11th, 2007, 1:14am » |
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on Jul 11th, 2007, 1:02am, towr wrote:
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I know, I guess my attempt at sarcasm didn't work..
Reminded me when I tried playing a dos version of Carmen Sandiego under win98, didn't work either. Of course, back then I was too naive to look for an emulator.
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Re: Incubation
« Reply #21 on: Jul 11th, 2007, 2:45am » |
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on Jul 11th, 2007, 1:14am, JiNbOtAk wrote:| I know, I guess my attempt at sarcasm didn't work.. |
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Re: Incubation
« Reply #22 on: Jul 11th, 2007, 5:22am » |
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on Jul 11th, 2007, 1:14am, JiNbOtAk wrote:| Of course, back then I was too naive to look for an emulator. |
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Back then you wouldn't have found one that worked worth a dang anyways. The usual solution was to find someone who still had their DOS 6.22 floppies and set up the machine to dual-boot. Since most soundcards, etc. usually still came with DOS drivers, you could set up a working DOS environment for older games.
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Re: Incubation
« Reply #23 on: Jul 16th, 2007, 2:04am » |
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This has nothing to do with Incubation, but I have pressed some button while writing in word document, and then this reversed 'P' like symbol appears everywhere now, together with dots. How can I turn it off for Christ sake?
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Re: Incubation
« Reply #24 on: Jul 16th, 2007, 3:16am » |
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Have you tried quiting the program (without saving settings) and starting it again?
I never use word, so beyond that I have no ideas.
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