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I sure miss the old forum but here goes... 12 years, 10 months ago #666
I think this was supposed to go in the Warlords II Delux section of this forum...
I contributed a lot here a long time ago. It was devastating to find that all of the old stuff on this forum was lost. All I can say is that it happens. I recalled suspecting as much might occur and one day I made a copy of what I thought was an important post I had made. Everything here is different now but maybe it will help or be moved into the right area of this forum. Here it is: Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 8:38 pm Post subject: Final update for now... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I made a mistake in my previous post about my success. Don't get me wrong. I can play with full functionality basically! The mistake was naming the right OS. I was on a PC in my garage that was a: Pentium III 733 512mb SDRAM Voodoo 3 3500 AGP w/tv Sound Blaster Live 5.1 This PC was set to dual boot so it could start up in WIN98SE or in WINXP. When I posted my results last time I had thought that I had gotten the game to work in WIN98SE when actually I was booted into WINXP. They both actually work with one difference. Under WIN98SE I can't seem to get the voice to work and if I have it set to work, the game either won't start period or will start and lock up at the talking head. See below for my work around. The XP install was easy and works perfect. It went like this: Download the game from the downloads page here. Put it in any folder anywhere on your PC. Doubleclick the Install.exe file to start the Sound setup. Select Roland Canvas for "Music" and Sound Blaster 16 for "Sound Effects." Select the "Speech On" option too and exit the sound setup screen. Now double click the Warlord2.exe file. The game starts with no music. Set up your game scenerio and begin the game. Once the game has started, go up to settings option in the file menu and put an X in the box for "Music" and it will turn on and be running each time you start the game for now on. The Win98SE install is basically the same except that in order for it to work and not lock up at the giant head part at the beginning, during the Install.exe step described above, select "SPEECH OFF" after you have selected Roland Canvas for "Music" and Sound Blaster 16 for "Sound Effects." Now when the game starts you will see the head with text under it that shows you what the he is saying. From that point you do everything else the same in order to get music to work as described above. I did not have to use that DOS disk that is in the downloads section on either install for Win98SE or Win XP. Everything is all good. This game is still pretty great if you remember how much you liked playing it 10 years ago. Thanks everyone and take care. So there you have it. I hope this old find and repost helps someone. Peace all! |
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Last Edit: 12 years, 10 months ago by Hermskii.
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Re: I sure miss the old forum but here goes... 12 years, 9 months ago #676
Using a home edition XP, I downloaded the W2Deluxe but after double clicking the INSTALL.EXE application I get ERROR:2
***Insufficient EMS*** I can not get it to run. I can run WII non-deluxe but I am stumped. |
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Re: I sure miss the old forum but here goes... 12 years, 9 months ago #680
SME,
If you want to run War2 in XP you'll need to download DosBox, a free program that emulates a DOS environment for War2 and other older games. It's simply and very straight forward program to use. If you have trouble with DosBox I can help with that. KGB |
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Re: I sure miss the old forum but here goes... 9 years, 10 months ago #1372
Maybe you can help me even though I'm starting this topic up again almost 3 years later.
I'm now on a quad core pc running Win7 rig. I have installed DOSBOX and the game Warlord2 starts up and the masked guy says "Greetings Warlord" then the awesome music starts up. Awesome! The problem is my curser disappears and I can't play. I have to go to task manager just to shut it down. Can you help? |
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Last Edit: 9 years, 10 months ago by Hermskii.
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Re: I sure miss the old forum but here goes... 9 years, 10 months ago #1384
I've never seen that problem myself.
Are you sure you didn't move the cursor back to your Windows machine? Hitting ESC (or windows key) should return cursor to Windows. Then if you reclick in the DOSBox window it should put the cursor back there in the War2 game. I am running Win 7 Ultimate and it runs fine for me (colors messed up in full screen but game and cursor are just fine in windowed mode). KGB |
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