Settlers 1, The
 

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Review + Download

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What can I say, it doesn't make sense to have PART II without PART I!!!
An excellent game!
:OK:

I must try it :OK:

mmm... right i saw my review was modified.... I didn't like the fact that my initiative was named "Sidenote" :sick:

There were lots of grammar and spelling errors so I had to change it a bit. As for the sidenote, well, when you become a regular reviewer, I will make it "your" thing ;) Until then, patience... :max:

This game is the best of all settlers' serials!

hmmm... have you ever edited one of my reviews, kosta? <_<

I believe I have, and thoroughly. You should have paid more attention in English classes :sneaky:

:ot: I know Kosta edited almost every of my news at cro abandonia!

And you should have paid more attention in Croatian classes :bleh:

I use flexword :D

He edits my reviews too to write the sentences more correctly, grammatical as more easy to understand too. I know I make mistakes. And enough of them. I have no problem with that. All the time so far his edit looked better than before.
Now back to topic, people. ;)

Yes back on topic... It was a good review Omuletzu, and its a great game. I've had alot of fun playing it in the past. It worked on my old 286 that I had for a while there, so I used to play it alot. Its funny, cos I didn't have a manual for it, I had to work everything out, and that was quite confusing.

Yup another one of those great games that I only ever had the demo for. Glad I finally have the full game!

P.S. You guys all speak (type) English very well, at university I have a lot of 'international' friends and it always amazes me how bad my Country (UK) is at learning other languages, you all put me to shame.

We have no merit. Playing games since childhood makes this look easy, but it took us all a lot of time. ;)

I've checked, you haven't corrected it... you've just replaced words.
For some reason you replaced "you'll find numerous clues and motives" into "you'll find more clues and more motives" both are gramatically correct.

If you ask me you've 'modified' it just enough to get legal ownership of the review.
AHA! the plot thickens :sneaky:

Something simillar happened to my review of Detroit.
Nothing was changed, but Kosta added a few sentences.
The literary style might differ slightly, but apart from that it actually was an informative adition (something I forgot to mention :wall: ).

The best strategygame ever. I remember when we played this with my brother in spiltscreen! Times like those will never come back :cry:

Hey Kosta no offence but i don't make gramatical errors.I double check every word that's not in my "common used words" with google.I'm not even getting into spelling.... :eeeeeh: :blink:
Somebody mentioned something about a great review.Thanks!
I have sent tom henrik the review for hof.Sorry about the delay, i had some personal matters... And with all due respect, i would apreciate it if my "thing" would be called as it is in the hof review.I mean "sidenote" :sick: :sucks: , that's like a gossip or something.I thought that introducing a curiosity bit would make people more interested in the game, but i see this is not the case.Oh and regarding the regular reviewer thing, you should know that this is one of my goals.Actually i'm going to check the "helps us..." section right now.
And another thing if i don't review something for a long time this means that i haven't found anything on your list that i have previous experience with.
example : i'm not going to review ishar 2, because i haven't played it.When something that i played appears on the list, i will review it.

:max: <_<

Let me just say that you used the word "wich" instead of "which". Then you used "verry" instead of "very". Numerous times you wrote "I" with a small "i", and trust me, there were LOTS of inconsistencies in the sentences. Some were too short, some too long, misplaced commas... you name it. Sorry to say it like this, but it was a mess :D

It doesnt matter to me Kosta if you rewrite reviews....

But so far you didn't change mine...except from the screenshots then.. :angel:

This is one of the games I have played the most of all times!! :woot:

Great game.

i see... <_<
Well i guess reviewing isn't for me... i'll just stick to moderating...

Nonono, don't get me wrong, the review was great! And besides, no one is asking or expecting your english to be perfect. I'm sorry if that sounded rude, but I didn't know how to say it since you were so persistent in wanting to know why I changed it a bit. Frankly, it would be wiser to compare your review with the version I edited, see what your mistakes were and learn something from it for the next one ;)

I'm going to have to start saving originals of the reviews so that I can then take your mistakes and shove them back into your faces :sneaky:

But seriously, your review was almost perfect. I was extremely happy with it as it required minimal efforts from my side :OK:

Great work, Kosta.

You managed to annoy the reviewers :sneaky:

LOL LOL LOL

But this is all :ot:

This is a great game, and I would suggest to everyone to turn Super VGA in the options, as the graphics then looks better (SVGA is close to Amiga version of the game, but still no better :D ).

Nice resource management system, with some tactics (not that much, as most of the times you are just pure observer how your units gets slaughtered).

I loved animation in this game, and high level of complexity, but long game play and repetitiveness makes this game frustrating in many cases (building fortress or other big structure that you’ll lose because of small barrack).

Ahh it's nothing, don't worry.

I'm waiting for some familiar game to review...

:ot:

It's me that you are annoying right now. Take it to a separate topic.

Why?
This is game related

Indeed..

THe review for a game is very important (IMO) so it's NOT :ot: to talk about it here.... :sniper:

The Settlers!!! A MUST for all who enjoy the good old days!!! This game did take a lot of time out of my life, and still does! Could it be any better? I don`t think so :D

Great game. Ridiculously fun to build a huge empire, expanding to cover possible new mining sites or farmland. Hours and hours of fun. I once left my laptop running this game by itself on the max world size setting just to see the result. Fascinating how many details they've managed to put into this.

H.

Anyone have a manual or a few directions? I played around and did what I could but I still have no clue what is going on and I don't have little peeps walking around like in the other village.

Yeah I found this game very hard to understand at first. I played it for ages without knowing what most of the stuff was... I then found a f.a.q. somewhere on the net and then worked it out then. I believe the faq I read was this one. Quite a long read actually :)

Thanks... Found it. Looks like it will help me out. (Didn't read it yet...but I will)

I love this game and i used to play it alot with friends but they stopped coming round after awhile because everytime they came round i asked if they wanted to play settlers LOL. I also played this game alot during xmas time with xmas music, i was a young teenager then

Great game, a lot of fun... and one problem: when I try to save it it shows "Write error or full disk". Help!!! Please!!! :ranting:

hmm doenst run under my version of xp (and me and dosbox don't go together either). Anyone else having trouble running it under xp?

You won't be able to use it under XP unless you use DOSBox or VDMSound. There is no way around it.

I dun noe the game well, wad abt the fighting system u wrote in e review? Tell me abt it so I can noe if it is woth the disk space in my computer. I want 2 noe more abt e game, pls! Thx in advance, any1.

It's 1.65 megs... If you think it's too much I fear you won't find many games which require much less space.

I had this game, but I had to format C:\ after a small time. :wall:
I forgot this game entirely for 4 long years, but now when i finally remembered it, I really have to get it. :woot:

Sorry about my bad english!
If something went wrong then try to understand me. :whistle:

Yo! The link to the FAQ doesn't work anymore...

Does anyone else have a good link?
Thanks

Hey. I used to play this when i was 10. I just remembered it a few days ago and wanted to play it agian. I can't find anywhere to buy it and I can't play it because it has copy protection on it,(I put in random symbols and it works but then i can't send out geologists or destroy buildings). But man its still fun to play even without a chance of winning.

You should download the version from this site Dave. You won't have any problem playing it then. :OK:

I got it from this site, it sill asks for the password from the manual...the destroy building button doesnt work, the cut road doesnt work, and the geologist dont work...I started running it on DosBox so now i get the repetative music :wall:

I just tryied it and the version from this site works flawlessly.

To send a Geologist you need to do a special click on a flag then select the geologist icon.

To destroy a building you need to select the building and to a special click on the destroy icon at the bottom of the screen.

to remove a flag you must make sure no road go to that flag by cutting them and when the flag is standing alone then do a special click on the destoy button on the bottom of the screen.

To do a special click hold the right button on your mouse then lick on the left button.

Happy gaming. :OK:

Wow it does work perfectly.... O.o
Hey thanks for the help!
This site is great i can post without havning to fill out tons of membership apps and email verification.
Nice people too.
Thanks again.



This is me without knowing what a "special click" was :eeeeeh:
This is me and my geologist :cheers:

There no longer seems to be a working page at the other end of that link, and the only settlers faq in it was for Settlers 2... I don't suppose anyone has a link to another help page, do they?

Wierd, I thought I was logged in when I posted that... In fact, why wasn't I? I had set it to automatically log me in each time I come here. But for some reason, my computer decided to ignore that... So much for the ability to edit my posts now....

I used to play this game too when I was a kid.

But this time I have a weird problem: I can't double-click. Nothing happens when I try. It means I can't call the geologist, destroy my roads or buildings, attack opponent's knights... That really paralyzes the game. Has anyone had any similar troubles?

You don't double click, but hold RMB and click LMB.

Hey, thanks a lot! About ten years has passed since the last time I played it, so no wonder I couldn't recall things precisely.

Hey!

i have a problem with the settler 1 version. After downloading and installing i found no erros and had no problems with the game. i entered the password for the last map and started playing. everything was fine till i noticed, that i can't attack my enemy.It happened a second time in lvl 24 etc. . i know the game and how to play it. Therefore I think that it is either a bug or a ..dont know.
My barracks are full with soldiers etc.

Thx 4 help.

settler one for everyone :-

I have some strange reading HD error that I'm trying to solve my self.

As for barracks full of soldiers, you have to change in settings how many of them you like to send in action. (Settings with +/- settings, with boards between two castles.

Hmmm, post above is me, on my Win98 computer that I put together just for gaming.

It seems that there is a save problem on that compute for some unknown reason. Will test it tonight, as might be because of hard disk size. (6GB C partition. Will try it tonight on 2GB partition.

Game works fine in DOSBox.

Can someone with WIn98 and C drive bigger then 2GB check this game and see if save works?

It does, why?

It does not work for me.

I got error:

Disk full or write error.

Oh, it does that on many computers, it's just random, I think the game is reading information incorrectly or somesuch.

Make sure no files are read only. To check or change that select a file, right click on it and select properties. There should be boxes to the bottom of the window. This is especially important for the save files, like in the save folder.

It is also a common error for a lot of games which can't save.

I had first done that, with no success at all. Then I tried different versions of the game, again all the same, same error. Interesting thing is that it creates the file, but it does not work if I try to load it up.

Game works fine in DOSBox on XP machine.

System I am using has 2 partitions (6GB and 2GB), it's 450 P3 with SB compatible card. Sound is working fine, and I have SVGA working great, but need to get games to save.

I solved it by running it from DOS.

I might create insturction on how to set up different DOS shortcuts from win98.

Yeah my brother and I did the same. It was awesome.

I didn't get into settlers 3 (or was it 2) as much as this one.

is this the demo or the full game?

:hello: :hello:
FAQ and info on Settler I (English Title), Serf City (American Title)
at:
http://dlh.net/cheats/pc/deutsch/set...lhinweise.html

and a little more at:
http://www.settlers.net/

enjoy.....this was for the unregistered guest a few pages back

cheers

:hello:

The disk full errors happen because of a discrepancy between the size of the FATs Serf City is expecting. You'll need a DOS emulator or a computer that can boot into pure DOS; the dinky command prompt XP provides won't work.

Actually, I CAN save when I run the game in winXP, but not on win98. On win98 i have to play it in pure DOS. In fact I was so thrilled when I got winXP and the game finally would save. I just don't have any sound in winXP, but for sound I play on a different machine that has true DOS.

I only have music on XP (via DOSBox). No effect sound..
:wall:

Here a link for you all:
http://www.abandonline.com/gameinfo.php?id=111

It's the Serf City edition. It's the exact same game though. However, this one comes with a very good sound card detect/installer. You won't even need DOSBox to run this one on XP.

Enjoy

Sorry, but I don't think you're supposed to post links to other abandonware sites. And does that site have ESA-permission to host Police Quest 2 and 3??

Why?
If this site has permission to host Settlers I the other site has permission aswell doesn't it?
As for Police Quest I have no clue. I only linked to that site for Settlers.
Anyway, was just trying to help..

Linking to other abandonware sites is allowed provided they are distributing "real" abandonware and not warez. And it's on topic and not a blatent advertisment.

All right, fair enough, then. I didn't mean to say that site was a warez-site (I don't think it is), but it does have downloads for several games which we had to remove because they're ESA-protected. But if that's OK, well, fine. So much the better.:) Sorry about the confusion, RAM.

God I love this game. One of my favourites from when I was younger. Got a problem though, just wondering if anyone's found the same thing and knows what to do about it.

I've just run out of wood. My lumberjack has no more trees in his area, so he can't cut any more. I don't have anyone planting them, so I need to build either a forester or another lumberjack in a wooded area. Unfortunately, I can't build either of them, despite having a stockpile of 59 sawed wood units in my castle. Any ideas why they're not being brought out to build with?

In the options menu, I have changed the settings so that any wood that is available goes to building (as opposed to shipping or tool making). I have no congestion on my roads (the lack of wood has ultimately stopped production of everything as my mines have run out). I haven't any other warehouses/gaps in roads.

I'm also noticing that my surplus of coal (168 units) isn't going out to the foundrys. Anyone know why my castle's stockpile isn't being redistributed?

Hey all, love the game.

I've tried playing in DOSBOX to get the sounds, but they are quite choppy and seem quite slow.

Seeings I'm a noob to dosbox, I presume it's something to do with that that I can't figure out... Anyone care to enlighten me? :)

Thanks

I really really enjoyed playing this back in the day on my Amiga. It was quality! I've never played any of the sequels


There was a game called 'Foundation' that was released on Amiga CD in about 2000 that was very similar to Settlers.

Can anybody help me!!!

I know this games has a key/key combo that allows you to see the 'lie-of-the-land', i.e. puts the little yellow things all over the map so you can see where you can build what - buti can't get it to work, I've tried all my keys!! Does anybody know what it is?

Please help, it's driving me crazy!

Thanks
Mark

Click outside of your property (or on a lake) where you can't build anything then, special click on your build icon. (Special click = holding right mouse button and clicking left mouse button.) :hello:

hi everyone

i have a problem. when i run the game in dosbox i cant move the mouse on the first screen

Errr... the screen turns blue.

The intro runs fine, with sound and everything, but when I gets to the menu it slowly turns blue, more blue, and finally white. If I alt+tab to go back into windows and then goes back into the game the menu looks fine, but immediately starts to turn blue again. Does anyone have a clue about why?

I run win98 (se) on a laptop and most games from this site works ok...

:sos: i used to play this game a few years ago and now i found it again! :OK: however i cant run it. when i start the game a type of "error screen" comes up and then the screen goes to power saving and i must pres ctrl+alt+delete and shut the game down. me and one of my friends have tried to fix this but we couldn´t. plz! anyone know what to do?

Best game ever!

I like battle system. Great stuff.

I first played game somewhere in 1994...

Played it last week again but now it doesnt work any more? Very funny? Anyone knows solution (runing XP)?

It would be grat if they reneved game in same gameplay and made it as animed desktop or online game. Hate settler 4.

hey I'm a big fan of this game and I usd to play it and was able to save it....

Now it doesnt save...it says disk write error or full.. something like that...

I have Windows ME and tried it directly from windows it didn't work, then from ms dos prompt, then I used dosbox but it runs very slow and is choppy/laggy...cant play with the music if I wanted to cause it slows it down more and I also tried to change the frameskip and everything but it is really bad experience playing in dosbox... :help: help plz....I have tried everything to try and save and I think theres no dos mode in windows ME, only dos prompt......Is there a solution?!!! :cry:

btw I played this a long itme ago....and reformats have been in between so I dont remeber how I got it to save before, maybe it was on my sucky comp which has real dos....right now though I cant save at all

hi same guy as last 2 posts...
what do u mean by read only? there is only 3 docs which open with notepad

-patches
-path
-readme

remeber I cant save at all...

notepad has nothing to do with it,
do as Eagle of Fire said, check the properties of the files.

oh I get it..sry for being so stupid but anyways I checkd all of them and they all have archive only checked off!!!

still cant save

you have to check the 'read only' attribute in 'general' properties

i just did that too and it has nothing checked off...so Im sure that isnt the prob
does anyone know what I can do?

you have to check -means you have to see if they are not checked on !
no tick in the 'Read only' box

I KNOW LOL....thanks but I checked to see that the was no checkmarks LOL

so that isn't the problem......
I'm still having a prob saving....
tried trhough windows (I have ME)
tried ms dos (I think ME has no real dos so...)
and then treid dosbox in which the game can save but there is no point in playing the game cause the game runs terribly...even after I adjusted settings like frameskip etc....

so what can I do to save?

Hi people! Somebody knows what I need to do to use a joystck for a two player game in Windows XP, with VDM Sound or DOSBox?

Thanks!

still can't save someone plz help me!! O.o

I have two problems. First, I can't save. Second, Is there any simple way to move around in the terrain? I have to use the map even if I just want to move a few cm. Is there any simple scrolling method?

Are you unable to read? You will find the answers to your questions in the manual that is also available for download from this site.

Hint : hold down right mouse button.

There have been a lot of nostalgic posts about Settlers 1 in which people have commented on how much they used to enjoy playing it years ago.

I've been trying out the download from Abandonia and find much to enjoy about this game. It has considerable charm and rather more depth than I was expecting. However, what puzzles me is that none of your posts have spoken about just how broken this game is. Similarly the FAQ from GameFAQS (which was mentioned earlier) lists a few bugs but makes no mention of the real spoiler.

I'm refering to the transport system. When you start a scenario this works reasonably well. Goods are moved from the castle or from their place of production to where they are required in an effective and reasonably efficient manner. However, once the game reaches a certain size and the road network becomes more complex the transport system breaks down. Goods start to be taked to places they are not wanted - for example, I've seen great piles of fish accumulating outside knights huts, ten or more sacks of coal taken to and left outside gold mines. Heaps of assorted garbage (lumber, ore, stone, swords, shields, etc.) gradually accumulate at junctions of roads and outside inappropriate production facilities. Perhaps the most significant down side of this problem is that it becomes very difficult to get buildings constructed. Sometimes the required materials never even head in their direction and in other cases lunber and stone almost gets there but isn't actually taken onto the site - the transporter just turns around and goes back the way he came, still holding his materials. Sometimes they will take large quantities of other item and leave them just outside the site; none of them being of the slightest use to the builder.

Of course this starts to have a pretty serious effect on gameplay. In one game I was getting roundly trounced by one of the computer players because the game wouldn't build me swords and shields or on the few occasions when the armourer was supplied with steel the resulting goods were then transported to inappropriate places and left on scattered heaps where they were of no use to me whatsoever. In another game I reached the point where I couldn't get any more guard posts built and just had to watch in vain as the computer opponents encroached further and further into my territory.

So, does what I've recounted here tally with your experiences of the game? Or is Abandonia perhaps hosting an old, unpatched version?

I wonder: am I talking to myself here? Has anyone else seen the problem that I described? Has anyone NOT seen the problem described in my previous post in this thread?

One of the consequences of all this stuff being moved around without rhyme or reason is that because it generates so much extra traffic the game starts spawning more of the transport ponces which makes even more useless traffic which ... ... I think you will probably get the idea.

Please can I have some response to this from others who have played Settelers 1 (aka Serf City)?

Sorry Sir! :D

Well, there numerous hints and tactics about this game, but I doubt that you read all through this topic.
Actually I'm not the one to ask, but since you're complaining... :hypocrite:

My advice would be building stocks in strategic positions e.g. close to your mines.
On the other hand you can adjust the transport priority in the menus.

Just build the iron related building close together. Same with wood.
That's all advice I cn give you. :OK:

Ah, your doubts are unfounded. I most certainly did read through this entire thread. And I've read the manual and a FAQ.


Well, this is exactly what I'm doing but it doesn't have any impact on the problem that I'm seeing which looks to me like a program bug.

Icewolf, you didn't say whether you had seen this problem yourself but thanks for your reply.

Well, I had the same problem but I moved playing settlers 2 gold.
Basically the same as settlers 1 but better graphics and higher AI so there aren't that much "traffic jams". And a little road improvement.... :sneaky:

Thanks. I suspected that Settlers 2 might be the only solution. However, I'm still surprised that reviews and FAQS don't mention the problem. Unfortunately Settlers 2 isn't an option for me at the moment due to lack of disk space.

On the current game that I'm playing, it was getting bad so I had a concerted effort to build a lot more warehouses. As they started to soak up items the amount of stuff in circulation was reduced and quite many of the transporters returned to warehouses or the castle and stayed there. There were still some transporters who were not doing their required job. I could see timber leave a warehouse, be carried through many relays only to have the last transporter in the chain refuse to pick it up. Meanwhile the builder would be pacing back and forth on his site unable to continue with construction.

best game eva!!!!!!! :ph34r: :ph34r:

To anyone whos interested

This game and S2 was the reason for me nad a good few others I know failing my GCSE's! Id forgot about this game for 10 years or so and D/L'd it the other day, and have been wondering;
Does anybody have any reccomendations for similar games that are like this game but are more recent so the AI is better? Notice how the computer doesnt reinforce strategic areas with forts or doesnt mine to its maximum capability?
I like the way the emphasis is on setting up a good economy and logistics as opposed to the war side of it, The newer versions of settlers just dont do it for me. I always hoped (when i was a kid) that there might be some way of getting the map sizes even bigger and having more players on a single game when pcs got better, any thoughts?

S3 and S4 are somewhat 'similar' games. O.o LOL

What newer Settler games did you try? Why you did not like them?

How far did you get into the game? Later levels are harder, and CPU does think better, and game becomes harder as resources become scarce. In recent replay of this game, I got stuck on level 13. I should continue later on. (I have save games)

you could always take a look at the fan remake of settlers 2, called Widelands (http://www.widelands.org)

or an original graphical remake of settlers 2 from blue byte: DIE SIEDLER® II : Die nächste Generation (http://diesiedler2.de.ubi.com/game_galerie.php)

knights&merchants (http://www.knights.de) is somewhat similar too.

velik_m,
thanks for the links. :OK:

Thanks Velik m for the links :D Im just looking at the widelands game now.
It wasnt that I thought S3 & S4 were rubbish (i played them quite a bit) but it didnt have the same feel as the first two; the world seemed to get smaller, the game quicker and the game strategies less complex. Like i said in the origional post, i hoped the game would get bigger maps and more players, maybe so ud have to set up towns and set up trade routs with other nations for scarce resources, make alliances etc, also a more in depth look at what goods needed to be made to run a medieval economy. For example the brewer makes beer, but who makes the barrels and the pintpots to drink it from or nails for buildings as another example. This simplicity was good as a 14 year old 10 years ago, but now Im looking for something thats going to go a little deeper.
Any ways enough of my ramblings, good luck to the widelands team :OK: with their project I look forward to seeing this completed work in progress!!

Cheers
Szozzar

From my amiga days I remember that memory was the factor which limited how big map and world can be. :)

Not sure if PC had the same check up for memory. (memory was the problem for amiga games)

WoW. i havent played this game in over a decade when i had my Amiga. sure brings back memories. thanks for the game!

HElP! the game is running at unbeliaveble speed!!! How can i fix this!!?? HELP!

I fixed it but now I can't set the perfect settings! (I use dosbox) Some setting make the sound bad, others - the motion -slow! Help - give optimal settings for dosbox specially for this game...

Use VMD sound insted.

I've just downloaded the original settlers from Abandonia and played it last night for the first time in over ten years, and wow its just as good as I remember from my teenage days on my Amiga 1200. Problem is, I can't save this version though, when I try I'm told disk full or write protected. I've even tried popping a formated disk in to see if this works... but same message comes up. Anyone out there overcome this problem? Every now and again it crashes which is very frustrating when you've been playing for five hours straight and have been unable to save (Devastating in fact) So without the ability to save I can't play AND THATS JUST NOT ACCEPTABLE! Sorry, its just such a good game... Help!

Let's see... try using the switches to the MOUNT command that allow you to change the amount of free space DosBox returns when the games check for it.
Also, the floppy drives (and CD drives) need a few extra swtiches to mount correctly.

Is there any soundeffekts for the PC version? O.o
I can't here any. :(

:LOL: Running it in Windows, I presume? ^_^

No, in vmdsound. Have also tried with Glidos.

And DosBox?

Oi there! i would like to know how the hell do I attack the enemy castle? :titan: :brain:

You should try settlers 4 it is one of the latest :titan: it is better and at a very low price! about 9 bucs!

Klik enemy castle klick on of the icons whith soldiers in itin the menu where the left most one are your closest troops nad most "fit" in the fight. but u can click all options which have a number under it.

Typing from my head but should be sorta like this :P

to attack the enemy castle, special click on it and then click the crossed swords, use the +,- to change the number of knights u send.

Its totally the same as for attacking knights huts but it doesnt have a distance marker flag (with the black crosses etc)

So, 'probably' its just too far away at the moment for u to attack you need to be fairly close (so if it had a flag it would be thick black cross)

Tried too, same problem there. (sorry for late awnser, was on vaction without any internet connection)

Save game corruption is THE biggest problem with this game.

I've played some map size 8 games, and colonized much of the map. However, after the repeated saving and resaving of the games. The game simply starts to screw up the longer you play it for. One problem that occurs, is that the settlers within storage houses and your main castle, walk in and out in and out (from inside, to just below the door, and then back again), etc and keep doing it to infinity. Nothing you can do, shy of destroying the storage houses that are bugged, can solve this. But then, if you build more storage houses, the bug occurs for them sooner or later, or sometimes straight away as soon as you build them. It's just one of many bugs I've found that occur when you're like... 40+ hrs into the game and have saved a load. Other bugs I've found, is actual corruption of the map. Blue dots appear on the map and world, and if you look at them, your game crashes.

The problem is corruption after long gameplay. I can see no solution to this.

Sometimes when playing this game, my computer goes blank, and I have to reboot and I get told it has recovered from a serious error to do with the video driver.

Also the other night, I noticed the computer was getting rather noisy, I did ctrl Alt Delete closed the game and had noting else running and yet the CPU was running at 100%??

Anyone have any ideas on these problems?

I love the game, when I had our old Amgia 1200 I was chuffed to complete all 20 missions. :)

Obvious results of running DOS games on Windows.
Use DosBox to run the game, that should work better.

Thank you. :)

Heya, im an very old fan of this game and have played this game for like 3-4 years of real time when i grew up, im still addicted to gaming, but still havent played any games longer than this. I played this on amiga and it truly rocked :OK: . I later got me a PC and played this and the other settler series, but it was a special feeling about the first that had me going, something about the massive random maps I could play and i could tune the difficulty perfectly to my liking by changing the options before i started. I however stashed my old pc away, got new games and 'forgot' about this. But some time ago i found the old copy i had, installed and started playing it again. It was and is really a great game.
But now the reason for this post (if there is a chance to get any 'support' from the other old skool gamers ^_^ ). The old bugs that appear after atleast 10 - 20+ hours start to reappear and old anger is revived.
The most annoying and fatal one is the stock bug. The stock simply 'shuts down' and stops completely from working, and all the goods inside is lost forever. In the worst cases, the people are trapped in there too. This problem was on both PC and Amiga, but much more frequent on PC versions. To check for this bug I removed all roads and left the stock stand isolated and force it to unload goods. If nothing happened, it was dead, K.I.A., nuked, roasted with all its precious inventory. This was extremely annoying and every stock would in the long run 'shut down', including the main castle (100+ hour gametime atleast). So the only workaround was to isolate all stocks, check if they unload stuff, if all ok, save. If a stock is bugged, isolate it, burn it, or reload the game. This is a pain to do every 30 mins if ya got 20 stocks or so ;).

So i guess this is a long shot but i'll try: Anyone got a patch or an update to fix this bug?

Hi there!

I'm sorry if this has been posted here before, I couldn't find it. Anyway, my game has this nasty habit of crashing every time a military building is conquered (by me or the computer). Has anybody else encountered this problem and is there a way to fix it? I'm running it in DosBox, latest version. Thanks in advance!

In the Gamefaqs site it's listed as Serf City.

Hi, ive downlaoded this and tried to run it using dosbox and jsut get a greyed out screen im using XP any ideas on gettin this working??

:sos:

I get the following Error: The timbre library >SAMPLE.< can not be opened

Nevermind. Found it already. :OK:

Let's get ready to rumble :kosta:

Hi,

I was wondering if someone can help. I can get the game running with music both using DOSBox and VDMSound however when I switch off the music I can not get any sound effects.

Any Ideas?

Run the game's setup. Make sure it uses Sound Blaster at IRQ 7, DMA 1, Adress 220h.

After downloading it yesterday I played it for 6 hours.

I had chosen the biggest map possible and til now only a small amount of the land is settled. It appaers I have selected a very slow pop-growth and this really limits the expansion so it gets relatively painful. I always have 0 ?-People (those with no job) and immediately after a new guy is born he gets something to do.

I also have problems with the economy:

It says my Millers and Bakers have free time but corn is piling up in the stocks. (I have no pig-farms since I'm vegetarian and I force my people to be so too :P) Same goes for raw-gold. I have over 600 unrefined units of gold and over 800 units of coal that are not transported to my Gold-Smithes.

I'd suggest that you build more depots.

For your corn problem, there is a reason why you can make meat in the game and if you don't use it then you are restraining yourself in the mining chain. It would be unwise to simply refuse to use that part of the game... Tough you don't seem to have much problems for now. You probably won't have that luxury in some missions...

I have plenty of depots. They do not influence the population growth at all. It works like this:
I have only the castle -> every minute one settler is born there.
I have the castle and 4 depots -> every 5 minutes one settler is born in each of them.
The depots basically only help to reduce the traffic that would occur if every single settler or item would have to go through it.

The manual states otherwise.
The only advantage of meat over bread is that the butcher is much faster in making meat than the baker is in making bread so that one butcher can handle several pig-farms deliveries.
The disadvantage is, that a pig farm does not produce a 1:1 corn->pig ratio (the ratio is obviously slightly lower but there are no figures in the manual) and thus lacks a bit in overall efficiency.
It is even said, that if you have enough land, bread is clearly favourable over meat!

Edit (not possible because not registered):
I abandoned that game anyways. From the recent progress it appears, that it would take several days if not weeks of mere playtime until the map is fully colonized. Add to that that beeing able to successfully attacking the others requires gigantic amounts of gold wich I wouldn't have until every last mined gold was refined and you get something like a whole month of lifetime doing nothing but playing one single game of "The Settlers". Where playing can be replaced by: Giving some orders, waiting for an hour or until they are executed, giving some more orders, rinse repeat.

I think i'll better try the missions or another map that will not be bigger than 5 which honestly still is more than enough for a relatively fast paced game.

Maybe i should give you some tips: First you should change this statistics for transport(I mean the way Items are carried) and for the castle. Then you should expand as fast as possible, build always next to the border to get most land. First you should collect some wood and stones for your buildings. After that you should build mines to get swords and gold. Gold is very important for the moral of your army ;) If you got all Tech Trees simply go for Soldiers. But a game may take several days, especially in the harder Levels. And always make a good way system. I think it is the best to make clusters(?). Sorry for my bad english :whistling:

Hi, I've got a problem running this great game. Whenever I start it, the graphics are corrupted, and when i try to run it with DOSbox, it says that it needs the file sndstup.dat. The .DAT file is there, and when i ask DOSBox to list all the files, it recognize it all right, but still won't accept it when i call the SETT.exe. :wall:

I also tried VDMSound but it just put out an errormessage stating that my system was not made for DOS-based programs or something like that. Anyway, it kept me from playing Prince of Persia so i uninstalled it (VDMSound, not settlers).
I'm Running XP by the way

OK, maybe the dat file is in the wrong place?
You definitly did something wrong then which is not directly linked to VDMSound.

Oh, so classic and funny game :P I love it
Played it once as a child, and I still like it

Me too. It is a good game =)

Hey fellas,

I love this game, I just downloaded it again to play. My problem is I can't destroy any of my buildings (before they are even built) or roads. The button I know is there on the menu in the bottom bar, but when I click on it, nothing happens.

Am I suppose to do something else? I remember just being able to click and it was done.

IF anyone could help I'd love it,
Thanks.

P

you need to press both buttons at once to delete things. Its a kind of security thing, so you don´t burn down anything you didn´t want to.
Same is for evacuating your castle and storagethings.
ZaR

Playing this game is so emotional to me. One of the first PC games I played, and played with my brother (as I seemed to mention before). Thank you thousand times for sharing this game!

:sos:

Hiya, i expanded well up to a point, but now even though i've built guard huts, knights dont seem to want to go to them so i cant grow anymore! I even burnt an occupied hut down to make sure i had knights, but he went back to the castle and never saw him again, and he definitely didnt go to another hut. I feel like i'm missing something, i jiggled around with the menu functions regarding soldiers but as i dont have the manual i dont really know what i'm doing. I also made sure i was making plenty of weapons, but soldiers just dont seem to be being deployed.

Please help!
:titan:
xxx

I'm just pointing out that the game is 4MB not 2. This is a disappointment as I was hoping to split up the game and transfer it to my old comp. Now I'll need extra floppies...

Okay, just checking this.
I can run the game fine, but I can not scroll on the main map. This means to change my view I constantly have to call up the world map and click there, and this causes for me to loose overview. Is this normal to Settlers 1. My settlers 3 and 4 I could run fine, but if this indeed true I will have to let Settlers 1 go.

P.s. In reaction to two post above in later versions of Settlers (3 and 4). This can happen if your percentage of soldiers versus normal folk is off, you have not enough people, you are asking too much for a certain weaponry (however, I believe this to be only in later versions)

hold right mouse button

Once you get used to this type of scrolling, "bump scrolling" becomes very anoying. More RTS's should use this.

Also: clicking with both mouse buttons at the same time will be usefull. ;)

It was nice to try this one, it's my first encounter with any Settlers game, but being a great fan of Cultures series I had no truoble finding my way around.
I payed my respect to history and that is that. :)

i´m so frustrated right now, i searched like evrywhere for this Game now I found it and i just don´t get it how to download it! Please help!

Okay, first, take deep breath and then look carefully. There's some text on small brownish area under the game info's (not under the review) that says: "Download this game!". Click it.

i see "why dozn't dis work" post in 3.. 2.. 1..

It must be 'p*ss everybody off' day in Slovakia... :noworry:

@The Chosen
thx for the quick answer but _r.u.s.s. is kinda right, i still cánt Download, in the small brownish area you described No 90! is written and i can´t click it.

@#{^@# it's that language bug again.... damned .

krischan23, set your language in board prefs to English, then you can download the game.
http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/3747/langbv3.png
Look above on the right side.

That's strange. O.o No Go applies only to protected games. Serf City isn't protected. Unless it's on a translated page? Not the English one?

Ok found it changed it downloaded it^^ i love this site so many cool Games i searched Serf City for many years now =D thx@ all(except _R.u.s.s..-.-)

:bleh:@Arete.
LMAO.

Set board language to let's say German and you'll see what I meant.

help me pls
 

hello,
i m fun of this game and i m happy i found it again. i have so interesting problem. i downloaded this game and i can play at my office computer without any additional program. but i download for my laptop which is nearly same specifitaions, i couldnt open. when i click dos opening and closing in 1 second. than i downloaded dos box and i opened(but it was so mix:) ).i was thinking everything is ok but when i want make save i saw an eror msg (unable archive....) now i dont know what will i do. i have to make save this game i can not play all in 1 day :)
i wish someone will help me. thanks in advance
bye

Exact error message please.
What is your default C mount?

hi. it's writing
unable ot save archive
i ve c and d and i put the settlers in c. also i tried the put save folders from my office pc. but it didnt see.

The more detailed is the information you provide, the better chance for us to solve the problem. I have to ask you a few more questions - it's important

Does the error message say anything beyond "Unable to save archive"?

As in, the game is in C:\Settlers\ ?
Exact syntax of the mount command you used in DOSBox, please, including all parameters.

Where did you place the game on your office PC's hard drive?
Also, how much free space is on that hard drive?
How much is on your home computer's hard drive?

hi. thanks for trying to help me.
1- yes it's writing unable to save archive.
2-C:\program files\Settlers 1, The
didnt understad your second question :( but doxbox is olsa in program file
3-in my office pc it s in C: my documents. i also tried to put same folder in my notebook but no diffrence. when i make a new save it's open in settlers folder like save.ds that's why i copied these folders in my notebook but it didn't see. both hard disk i ve about 7-8 GB memory.

in my opinion, when you play in dosbox cant make save :(
the crazy thing is my office pc and notebook are nearly same. xp, gforce bla bla... i dont have problem at office ups just my boss :))

Rename the game directory to Settlers . Make a new directory on your C drive, name it Dosgames . Move the Settlers directory into it.

In DOSBOX, enter the following commands:
mount C C:\DOSGAMES -freesize 100
C:
cd settlers
settlers

Try copying the entire game directory from your office PC.

I'm pretty sure the problem is not with DOSBox. :amused:

Sound Help Please :-)
 

I am having problems to get the sound to work on this game.


I don't really know what I am doing, but what I have tried was to run the sound.bat file and set it up with a few different configurations, none have worked.

I am running a laptop with Windows Vista (yup). The sound controller is listed as "Conexant High Definition Audio" in the Device Manager.

Oh, and I am using the latest version of DOSBox to run the game with.

Thanks for the help!



Oh, and if I run the sound.bat thing and use the default setup given which is:

Sound Blaster Pro I
Address 0x200
IRQ 5
DMA 1

It says the install worked, but when I type the command to run settlers in DOSBox (serfcity), my speakers make a small clicking sound and I get the message "PCM sound hardware not found."



That is about it I think. I am new to this so have patience :-)

Thanks!

Run soundbat again and alter to

A 220
IRQ 7
DMA 1

Those are the default settings in dosbox.

BTW, there is no "sound.bat" in the AB game archive, do you have the full game?

"Your sound device could not be found at the specified settings...
Failed to detect DSP device"

:doh:

??
The command is not serfcity but settlers
There is no 'serfcity' in the AB game.

I got my game from here
http://www.abandonline.com/gameinfo.php?id=111

Is that the full version?

Nope, also ripped, and seriously ripped, as it's only 917 Kb.
My advise: delete it and get the one from Ab@
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/288
unzip in a folder, call it settlers or so, mount that folder as C in dosbox, you won't have to set the sound or anything as the game is pre-configured for dosbox, in other words: ready to run.

And in the future ask help for a game WHERE you got it from. You hardly can expect help here for the whole abandonware sector.

[Edit]
Ahem, BTW, When you run sound.bat in that other download, choose SB pro, next screen Soundblaster 16, A220 IRQ7 DMA1, next click on 'use only one card' NOT two, done, game will work with music and sound effects.
Seems to be the full version afterall......

Hey, it was just a mistake, the URLs were similar and I had too many windows open and wasn't paying enough attention.

Anyway, thanks for the help, I noticed that right before you posted and the version here works great.

One more thing though, what exactly does SVGA mode do?
Oh, and I am having problems running in full screen mode, I set it to full screen in the DOSBox configuration file, but when I play the game the colors are all messed up. I think it only does that when I set it on SVGA mode...

Thanks!

Don't go in full screen? 'doh.

Or try different output settings under [SDL] in dosboxconfig.

Settlers and Netbook
 

I've played Settlers on and off since 1996, except recently under Vista (which has no time for Dos apps). But I recently bought a Netbook, which runs under XP. Settlers runs perfectly on it, with full fx, tho' no music. It's perfect for long journeys.

*sigh*
Dosbox runs perfectly under Vista.

Is there any way to increase the game speed like in Settlers 2? I like this one better but have to play S2 because I want to win before I retire!

Special Click no Working - Help Please
 

I have gotten the game to work simply by clicking on settlern and it seemed fine until I realized that the special click is not functioning at all. I can use the right mouse button to scroll on the map and to choose which buildings to build but that is about it.

Now I am not using DOS Box and I did not "install" the game (I click on install and it tries to verify files and such and simply doesn't do anything).

Is there something I am doing wrong?

The graphics aren't what I remember either.

Anyways when I first played this game years ago I had so much fun and I spent hours doing it. I probably don't need it to work properly as this means I would probably spend hours playing it again! Either way even being able to see the little guys carry their stuff and do their thing is cool enough.

Thanks!

Your question:
You answer it yourself:
Life can be simple, isn't it?
:)

Are you sure you're thinking about the right part of the series? Settlers 2 had slightly different graphics.

Also. A beginner's guide to DOSBox

Okay so now I have used DOS Box and it helps a lot with my whole idea of the graphics, they are what I remember. But I still can't use the right -click for anything. It is that simple for the special click right - right-click on buildings and such or on the flag to send out the geologist?

Also I cannot demolish buildings or flags, or cut roads? Kind of strange. Now really though, I should be sleeping instead of here onthis forum or playing the game, so yeah.

Thank you for your responses though!

Perhaps it depends on game's control settings. Best would be to check with the manual.

DL'ed this game under WinXP DosBox 0.65
My sound works fine, VGA mode is best. Tried all the EXE. files though and SVGA also. Read the manual and 'read me' files and tried re-setting the game options and right/left configurations. All of this and to no avail. My mouse left clicks just fine, but I can't right click or scroll around the world.

Since I see many posts, where the trouble is sound, or mouse buttons, the problem may be with the VESA drivers, combined with XP/Vista. Just a guessing game from my point, but this was a problem for me in old days too, with Win3.1 and 95.

EDIT: I noticed Settlers 2 Gold edition is similar to S1. I am going on to that version next.

This game is sweet.

Agreed! :clap:

so there was a conversation between amiga and pc user and they agreed both game versions were exactly the same except amiga had "super advanced tv pixel blur" filter

What about the LITTLE SOUNDS!?
 

Hi, everybody
Thanks for all the help.
I remember the Geologist going "Yippie" when he finds something.
And the sawingmill ratteling.
Did anyone get that to work? And how?
Thanks a lot.

that was in settlers 2

AWESOME!!
 

Honestly this is the best out of all of em. Settlers 2 still had the idea and its not a bad one either so i recommend that one as well. But after that they started ruining the games complexity. Started throwing in hero classes and the building tree wasnt nearly as complex. And honestly i dont like having direct control over the soldiers either.

One of the most amazing RTS' of all time. Up there with age of empires and the original civilizations. Sad that as time goes on you have to revert to older games to get a true gaming experience. The gaming industry is devolving...

I promise you a very unique rts experience with this game. Seems tedious at first but its honestly what makes the game.

Im having a problem with the game freezing when i defeat an enemy castle....most frustrating!

Has anyone else had the same issue?

Dosbox settings? What system do you have, and what error messages?

Im using D-Fend version 0.8.2 and there is no error message, its just hangs. I can click around the screen but there is no movement of the chatacters and nothing is "clickable".

Sorry I forgot to mention this is in the first post.

Your username makes me crave cheese viennas...

Perhaps you should try it in pure dosbox? [heresy]Frontends aren't always the best option[/heresy]

My favorite game.

I originally had this game on Amiga 1200, and I completed all the missions (eventually) :)

Then I discovered this site and was able to play all the missions again (quicker this time since I knew what I was doing).

I now have a new computer which is Windows Vista and I downloaded it again but it tells me it won't work on Vista. Is that it? Can I no longer play my fave game?

[pp-------------;p[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[ - lol my kitten walked over the keyboard

Far from that. What you need is a little freeware program called DOSBox.

This guide should get you started.

Thank you very much, I will check that out.

Dual player
 

Playing with dosbox on vista.. my problem is that i can't get that other mouse when i and my amiga buddy wanne dual play... Any tip?

Install
 

I'm having trouble getting this game to run on Dosbox. What do I have to do?

If you would explain your trouble, we could probably help you. ;)

Good point. When I try to run the game with dosbox, I get an error telling me of an illegal command: sett.exe. I get the same for intro.exe. I tried running the install executable, but I could not get that to work right. I'm not sure that I'm entering the correct things there.

Have you tried redownloading it? And what system are you running?

If you get Illegal command:, you are not in the right directory or made a typing error. Btw, you should start the game with one of the BATs.

And speaking of BATs:
Shouldn't "settlers" and "settlern" be switched?

I tried redownloading it. I'm still getting the same problem. I'm running Mac OS X 10.4.11.

I'm in the right directory, and my typing is fine. I've also tried starting the game with each of the different BAT files, but to no avail.

@#@#@#Macs
 

I'm not so sure about that .... the 'illegal command' you get is typical for /wrong mounts/typos/....

Whilst in your settlers dir (in dosbox of course) input

dir /w

You should get something as:
click> http://i.imagehost.org/t/0373/settlers.jpg

...that's what I get.

Tried the BATs?

Did you try setting up the sound with setup.exe?

I tried the BATs.

I'm not sure if I'm inputting the sounds properly. Would you mind telling me what I ought to put in their?

DOSBox sound default is usualy either Sound Blaster 16, Sound Blaster Pro, Sound Blaster or Adlib : adress 220, IRQ 7, DMA 1 1, DMA 2 5

That worked for the sound part. The sound is now set up fine. Unfortunately, the game is still not running.

Hi.

Downloaded this, great memories.

Running the game in Dosbox under Mac OSX.

Anyway you can get Dosbox to recognise 2 mice so that i can have a nostalgic multiplayer with my brother as we did many years ago?

how do you connect the second mouse? via some com port? because if you connect both via usb and have one "cursor" you can't. only with com port+usb/ps2 port you will be able to control 2 separate mouse cursors at the same time

check this thread out, bugs_bugger explains this thing

but i think that the game supported joystick for 2nd player, you can map your joystick movements to keys in dosbox (ctrl+f1) and play via keyboard which the game will think that is joystick

it is almost working on my tablet :-)

specs : samsung tablet 10.1 android version 3.2 and the " adosbox " latest version also

music is good, sound is good ( not amiga quality like i used to know but its good enough )
in the beginning it did not work at all, i needed to install with other type of soundblaster but now its is all working, the intro looks fine game is running good in vga mode, the normal mode has background green flikkering so i use vga mode.
i can make buildings, make roads, but using mapsliding there it get tricky first 2 times i use it no problem it works using 2 fingers and slide the map to point of intrest, 3th time dosbox crashes and i did not safe the game :-( so i need to start again.

anybody know how to get the mapsliding to work without using the options map to get to another spot on the map?

i also figured out how to get dune 2 working but real time games are hard on tablets without a real mouse but it is worth it free tablet games suck big time

faster knights
 

just started playing this. i've played S2 as a teen, but got bored with it, and lost the disc...
i don't remember how the battles in the second game was like, but whoever thought that making the knights line up and fight man-to-man was a good idea should be slapped with a large salted fish. battles seem to take forever when i send 20 knights to take out a castle.

is there any way to really speed things up in dosbox? maxing out the cycles don't seem to do anything except make the sound effects lag a bit. frame skip makes the controls either unresponsive or too sensitive...

The game is meant to be played that way.

Also, you don't have to send 20 of your lowest, non upgraded fighters to take a single fort. You can level them up and send only a few of them at a time and use the rest to attack other targets at the same time. It go a lot faster that way.

Don't forget that at the origin The Settlers was a builder game with a twist. The latest iterations of this game turned the series into a pointless RTS which go fast... But The Settlers 1 and 2 are meant to take a fair amount of time to complete.

knights
 

yea... i just figured that out yesterday after re-reading the manual. battles are slightly less tedious after i send my most experienced knights out to fight. i'm still pretty bad at managing my resources. used up my wood way too fast and only built 1 tree planter on a size 8 map. this game seriously lacks in-game feedback on potential resource shortages.

True. This is a very old game and user friendliness wasn't a strong point back then. They were concentrating quite more on keeping the game size down to fit it on a floppy. ;)

But this is really part of the game. Figuring out what is the best optimal distribution of resources, buildings and roads is pretty much why this game was loved by so many people when it got out. :)

Hello. It's 2017 and I still play The Settlers! I remember the game I borrowed from my friend (it was 1994 or so) on a single 3,5" floppy disk and had to figure it out myself how to run my little kingdom. Today I can start the game with minimum resources and play just fine as it is possible to start game from zero.

I wonder if there's any modding community for Settlers I (and Settlers II)?
I never heard of it.
I've seen a guy who was trying to port Amiga version of the game to Android but I do not know if he succeed. Last time checked it was all in developing stage.

Also I found a copy of the game localised and I don't mind to share if you like to upload it. Polish players would really enjoy it!!!

Not long ago I sorted my Settlers I+II collection and stumbled upon this S2-only site: http://www.siedler25.org/. Might be a good starting point for your S1 quest.

That's all I've found and by accident even as I am not a die-hard fan of mods. It occurred to me, especially regarding S1, if there exists a full fledged fan site it's likely not in English cause the game's primarily target market was Germany. Anyways good luck to you, and if you find a solution for S1 cursor flickering in SVGA be sure to notify me :smile2: