Feel free to comment and discuss this game here. Also, if you have any useful tips or tricks don't hesitate to share them with the others! Thanks!

Review & Download

Is this the ripped version, where turning on complex animations(or some animation related feature) would result in a crash??

all i know is good job bjbrains hope to see more reviews from ya

LOL..i asked TOM for this game..

Now i know why he never send a PM back :sneaky:

:Brain: love this game

love the sequel: street wars, more :D

What u can construct in this game?

Does the game support entering commands in pause mode? Or at least, slowing down time to a crawl, while you enter commands?

Playing this game reminded me of a game called 'mob rule' which is the sequel of constructor, published in 1999. (constructor was a game from 1997)

Here you can download the demo version of mob rule:
http://www.download.com/Mob-Rule-dem...19-916278.html

It's not abandonware yet... too bad...

.EDIT. I guess this is the same game as 'street wars' but under another name.

I remember hearing this game is really good, but never actually played it myself. Time to give it a try! :bye:

Nice game. BUT... Everytime I try to build something I get mega lag and only get a screen refresh every 8 days so it becomes extremely hard to place buildings and I lose. :( Any ides why this happens and any way to stop it would be really useful, it seems like a good game.

I downloaded the zip twice, both times it said the compressed file was invalid.

Use powerarchiver to unpack it!

Actually the download keeps bombing out at 20.1meg for me. 3 times now =(

Oh and hi =)

Brad

man i love this game i had the original oce but lost it but stil its a lot of fun espesialy the hippie

It doesn't fully download, like Brad it gets towards the end then the message appears saying its invaild and Im left with nothing :cry:

it's a problem on your end, try using Firefox instead

how do you get trees into yards? I just can't figure it out! :crazy:

Hehe, I have this games omewere on CD :). Haven'(t really played it a lot, as the review sais, it gets broing after a wile but it's fun while it lasts :D.

And canno, you have to build a gadget shop (I think) there you can make trees and then place them in the gardens :)

Actually I do use Firefox. I've downloaded 80meg files from the site without a hitch. This one is giving me grief. The real problem is the download system doesn't allow resuming =( although there might be a way to trick it. Resuming would be a handy feature particularly on the larger files like this.

I'll try some more and see exactly how many times I need to retry.

Brad

Fixed..... Just start the download. Then right click on the file in your download manager (Firefox or Mozilla) whilst it's downloading and click on properties. Select all (file location) and plug into your favourite download manager.

I should have known as I use this method elswhere.

Brad

well, if you have firefox + flashget + flashgot you could just do it automatically :x

doesn't work, i've tried before

The game works perfectly. Although I seem to remeber the graphics as much better when I were young :P but then again thats always how it is with classics
cheers
merry Xmas

This game is quite fun, i had it for my old good pel PS1 xD, never won the computer tought :S its a bit hard

Any idea why it slows down lots when i try to place a building? Im running in xp with dos box.

The game is quite good , but I've never tried the sequel. any chance of getting that?

I have the exact same problem. When I try to lay the foundation to the Wood Yard ( the first building) I get immense lag and very few screen refreshes.
I play this game in DosBox and the sound and everything works well. Just I cannot build

Ooooh man, what is with the lag when you build stuff? It's unplayable! :cry:

bump.
Anyone know what to do about the Lag problem related to building stuff.
the game cannot be played with it , thats for sure

have you tried playing the game without DosBox?

doesn't work without DosBox for me... :(

same here. the game wont run without dosbox.

i just downloaded the game,and it dosent work,so i got dosbox,but what do i do with it?

I loved this game back in the day, grabbed it, grabbed dosbox
once the game starts it dies. lag makes it unusable :cry:

I wanna terrorise neighbourhoods :wall:

*Jots this down on his list of reasons to make a win98 system*

I have a problem about constructor.. it always hang... when i put a factory i mean a new factory lng cement factory.. can u send me a requirements of the game? so that i can adjust some setting of my dosbox.. thanks in advance..
:max:

If you get the lag prolem to stop. PLease post how cos i get the same kind of thing and would love it to go away.

Hi people! Get ready to kiss your build-related lag goodbye :bye:

1. Go into your C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.63\dosbox.conf

2. Look for the following:

[cpu]
# core -- CPU Core used in emulation: simple,normal,full,dynamic.
# cycles -- Amount of instructions dosbox tries to emulate each millisecond.
# Setting this higher than your machine can handle is bad!
# cycleup -- Amount of cycles to increase/decrease with keycombo.
# cycledown Setting it lower than 100 will be a percentage.

core=normal
cycles=3000
cycleup=500
cycledown=20

3. Change cycles to 10000 like I did.

4. Play now or keep reading to see some more tweaks I've done......

5. Noone enjoys playing in a box, even if that is what its called

fullscreen=false

becomes
fullscreen=true

6. Bump DOSbox's allocated memory from 16MB to the max of 63MB

memsize=16

becomes
memsize=63

Happy constructing
:cheers:

Hi, would it be possible to split the zip into half or something please.

i'm on 56k and can't download the whole thing (as my connection timesout after 2 hours). Even using a download manager doesn't work cos of no resume.

:help:

:help: After a few howeses are built and people move in I run out of tenents???! how do you get more??? other than converting workers. Also if anyone knows where I could get a manuleish thing please send it to me at xfighter24@yahoo.com or post a link THANKS. :help:

:ot: Don't commient I know my spelling is terrable :ot:

Thanks. Screwed around with my dosbox (i mean that in a good way) and now im going to play constructor. Hope its good. :cheers:

kinda hard game but fun ;)

i dont understand how to upgrade. like how do u build a gadget shop and police station and anything other than a wood mill?

:help: hello i whant 2 play this game but i can't becoz i have win XP :not_ok:

i hope some1 can help me

:help: i have dosbox but i don't now how it works so :wall:

the game is in D:\ constuctor

help!

what do i do in this game i don't have a clue in what to do.

I keep getting an Error = Unable to find moviefile


Am I missing some part of the file or what?

Jonas :sniper:

WHEN I START THE GAME IN DOSBOX I LOADS AND STARTS FINE BUT AFTER I TRY AND START BUILDING I FREEZES

HELP ANYONE :help:

I'm still having problems downloading this :not_ok:

anyone can help me? i cant play it....it call me to insert the cd...i when to d/l the path...but then after installing it....it cant works too...it say
The instructions at 00460a35 referenced memory at 011f2030
The memory could not be read from

Click okay to terminate the current application


anyone here know y?

hi there...

i got a problem here.... whenever i try to click on "the basetrailer" the game collapses saying: "error= unable to spool file .\flics\hsehomeb.flc

god given it`s necessary to click on this damn car/trailer/whatever to build anything :ranting:
pls help me *crying*

i have the game but when i wanna play it it just go black screen like usally and that fine but then it just go out to windows.

WHHHHAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTT TOOOOOOOOO DOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ??????


:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:


:help: :help: :help: :help: :help:

CUT some of your people how it works for just but some links in to what i should download for it so i gonna work ?????
just keep the coming all links

right, in order to play this game here is what you do

download the game

download dosbox

unzip constructor to a folder of your choice

open up dosbox and type the following

"mount c "game folder here""

then just type in C: then press enter then type game

and then you are in.

Have the same problem as "Gora"...

Anyone knows how to solve this?
It Crashes with a message about missing a file (hsehomeb.flc)

Playing with dosbox and everything is working fine, untilthe crash..

Can't find the file on internet, anyone have it or knows how to do without?

-Jaiser

help!!!!!
need another link to download the game.....
:help: :help: :help: :help: :help: :help:
:help: :help: :help: :help: :help: :help:
:help: :help: :help: :help: :help: :help:

Help!I need somebody help!Not just anybody!

All links posted here works perfectly.

anyway ignoring the rude masses.
It appears a TON of files are missing. in most folders it's just data.(something) and it won't run properly(as in it crashes when I try to use a wood yard)

Data, can you start newbie punishing?

Hey problems solved with missing file, just put all graphics to a minumum... Bu now it crashes everytime i build the Brick Favtory, anybody can help?

-Jaiser

Okay, i have Constructor now so no need to split the archive, i managed to download it on a fast connection ( a remote shell i have access to) then download it via ftp (with resume) from there :)

The game is running fine for me so far, i'm on 98SE, no sound though but i appear to be able to build all the buildings, though animations are turned off

hey i have dl the game and it won't work i am useing 2k os. why won't it work ??? PLZ HELP

how do i use DOSBOX? i already read the manual in the web, but i still don't understan d it

i use microsoft virtual pc and it works just fine

how do i get better tenants? i can only get the ones with a 1, not with 2 :s
please help

Right, to make the next level tenents you need a set of tenants 1 level below, or the current highest. So if you want level 2 tenants you need level 1 tenants and a gadget factory.

1) Make a computer at the gadget factory

2) Get your level 1 tenants to collect the computer

3) You know where you choose wether they make level 1 tenants, make workers or pay rent, a new icon should appear that says make level 2 tenants.

Once you have moved in some level 2 tenants into a level 2 house they can make more level 2 tenants or (with a computer) some level 3 tenants!

Any other questions about how to play the game you can ask me.

Also each level has a special;

Level 1: make workers

Level 2: make cops to rent at police station

level 3: make bribes for the mob

level 4: cant actually remeber, sorry!

level 5: Make design for super houses.

If you get your workers to re-design the rooms n houses then stuff like, longer life for tenants happens, or faster babies, or generally more happy which means you can increase their rent.

oops Lone Wolf

Hey guy's, it works for me, i just can't get any sound in my game...

can someone help me?

Thanks ! :)

me 2

"error= unable to spool file .\flics\hsehomeb.flc"

i think in ' \filcs\ ' there r missin files in constructor.zip ?

anyone can sent me all those files

p l s h e l p ! ! !

kittaphan@hotmail.com

thanxxxzzz

To run the sound go into the directory where constructor is and run the .BAT file called setsound. Do not use auto detect every time I used it my coputer locked up. Pick your digital audio device and music device. Sound Blaster ones work best usually. Test it if it does not work try another till it does. :angel: I had the same problem and I used Sound Blaster Pro to get it working. :max:

Again I will poast in hope to be noticed. Does anyone know if the game is TCP\IP connection addpatble and if so how do I make it work!!!! This fourm is a mess so if possible please e-mail it to me at xfighter24@yahoo.com with the subject answere please but the fourms is also fine.

HELP PLEASE!!!!!!!! :cry: :help: :ranting: :wall: :kosta: :sniper: :rifle:

MY Sound is Laged......what i do???????
i'm braziliam.....sorry my english :crazy:

The instructions at 00460a35 referenced memory at 011f2030
The memory could not be read from

Click okay to terminate the current application


anyone here know why ?
Help

Wahoo i haved try your shot and it whont work plz help me more here is my Messenger:
monkey16@ofir.dk

please right me if you/anyone can help me

and another problem when i start the i works but after a while it goes out to windows and say :" Constructor cd must be in driver "

HELP ME FFS hehe HELP :help: :help: :help: :help: :cry: :cry:

thx thx thx thx thx!!!!!

Thank's for giving me back this game, i had the original but... it's like not working any more (sorry, i can't remember how do i say when for example... you use a knife whit the CD)... i'd remember to pass all the game, it's the best of the best that game

PD: sorry for my english, I'm from Argentina :D
PD2: this page is in favorite now :w00t:
PD3: bye :bye:

is there any other program (beside dosbox) to run this game?... because is a little lag and the sound is reeeealy lagged

I played this game in pentium(win98) 120 mhz with graphic card compatible with VESA.

But the graphic card WAS incompatible with VESA.

this a good game but this isn't correctly work in the time :cry: this have a flics error :cry:

Hiya i have the disk version of this game, but i have xp so it doesnt run with out dosbox but i enjoy making the builder shoot their nailguns at the other player

I also get lousy sound lag. Anyone wanna help?

Hi All,

Its such a shame that you are all struggling to get this game to work as the game is very entertaining and was so innovative for its time (and in my opinion still is!). but you really do need the full game to really appreciate it as this version is a condensed ripped version (very few animation files which are causing the game to crash), the full version is around 400MB.

The last PC I was successfully able to run this game on was a AMD K6 233 with a 4MB S3 Virge video card with a 3DFX accelerator card. Then I bought a Geforce 256 based card and all my problems began...

I managed to find a universal UNIVIBE driver but it still wouldn't work; I won't bore you with the many hours I've put in trying to run this game over the past few years but I highly recommend downloading Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 as this is the only platform that I have tested that has run the game flawlessly and without any problems and was so simple to set up.

I can't remember if TCP/IP connectivity was implemented into Constructor. I believe it was. I will check and post back for the people who are interested. I would love to play people at this game so give me a shout if you think you 'ard enuff.

Cheers.

it is possible to find the whole cd or iso? I downloaded it once from other site, and when I win or lose, the game crashes and a message says something like "unable to open movie file". It's a f%¨$ to play this way!!!

If someone knows something about where to find the iso, plesas post here!!! :cry:

:D Hi everyone! I remember when I was younger I played this game from a friends computer an now at least I founded this site where I downloaded it. Everything was fine, but then when I tried to build a factory the game slows so down that I can't play it anymore, but I wān't to play it so much. Please help me. Mayby, there is something I can do to make my playing better. Mayby there is some other sites where can I download it? Please HELP IF U CAN!!! :cry:

there is a post about 3-4 pages back with how to adjust dosbox to run it perfectly. look there

Why there is no multiplayer??? I thought it HAD a multiplayer option...... Damn... I hope that Acclaim will make a WinXP compatible re-release of Constructor with multiplayer option... It would be such fun for hours trying to destroy your mate's HQ... And for those who did not know, there is an easy way how to win the computer (at least on Playstation), at the very beginnig of the game, simply put a worker in theit woodyard building site and their development will stop... Just remember to keep an eye on the site, because it will burn and explode after some time.

The best way to play this game is to spend some $30 (dont be greedy!) and buy an old computer.. I did it... I have a Pentium 2 230 Mhz with 64 MB ram, Ati 3D Rage II +DVD and Sound Blaster Live and it works with no lags... Though I can't play the animations, because the files are simply missing... If there is anyway to play this game for at least 2 players, tell me.. Because if that is true, my friend will also take an old computer and we will play 1vs1.. That could be such fun for hours!!! Has anyone done this?? What are the differences between a multiplayer and single player? I guess, there is no speed-time in multiplayer... And what about the sub-missions? Like, building a park in a particular estate.

Thanks, :max: taloN :ok: for your help, but I already done all what was written 3-4 pages back and it don't help. Maybe someone knows where else can download this game.

i doubt a different download will help.

have you tried changing the graphics in game?

i doubt a different download will help.

have you tried changing the graphics in game? [/b][/quote]
:crazy: no, but if I will change something in graphic, U think, that my game will run without no suprises? Mayby I will try, but what directly I must do? that's the question.
P.S. sorry abot my english grammar. (I'm from Latvia) :bleh:

Hi i have the same problem as earlier posts stats.

When I play the game there is no problem, until I want to build a construction yard.
First I had problems with a brick factory, when I choice this the game would to into a real slow-motion thing…… but the I solved the problem by saving the game before I wantet to build the brick factory and the restart the game from bosbox and build the factory first off..

But that little trick did not work when I had to build a steel factory….. pretty much stuck there
:help: :help:

Constructor's a real great game it just crashes sometimes :angry:

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=2924

If the game isn't working right from Abandonia, then try this other version.

Eej...

I'm from holland and my English is not so great. Could someone explaine to me what the use of the Abandonia bootdisk exactly is for????
and how to use it of course..

I love this game... I just can't seem to make it work on my computer :cry:

Hey i can´t get it started, when i click on GAME file it opens a window but suddenly close. whether is memory or not i need some help here....

best to run this in dos not dos-box and turn the sound off works fine for me ;) just remember to save a lot it crashes quite a bit.

this games coool :ok: !
But the bugs that inflited my houses driving me crazy :ranting: :wall:

I have same problem here

Hi, I've managed to get the game working. Whilst playing the game, I get a mission from the council telling me to "get rid of" an occupant of the opponent's estate. I've tried sending every villian I have to get rid of him, but nothing happens and the time limit runs out and I have to start all over again!!!

What is the best way of evicting an opponents tennant???

i have e original CD from last time when it came out. But somehow it doesn't work anymore n i still have to dl e game from here..

anyway, i have problem building e brick factory as well. was thinking of using windows virtual pc as someone suggested, but i dunno how to set up. can anyone teach me? everytime i start it'll ask for some boot disk or boot drive thing.. i dun understand.. :cry:

Thanks for all of those double posts.

Edit by data: Removed most of them

i got the game working.
the virtual pc from microsoft is a realy good progr

for all of you that have problems with freezing, delays and no sound, that's the answer :ok:

Geeze, most people that post in this forum are total IDIOTS/N00bs.

- If you have problems trying to run DOSBOX, RTFM! Its made for noobs.

- If your factory lags and the game freezes, read page [4] of this forum how to fine tune your dox box config.

- I've noticed this version doesn't support multiplayer. The original had multiplayer it was very unstable, i gues thats why its removed.

Now for my problem.

After 3-4 mins in the game. It just bombs back into command promt of DOSBOX, with no error message or anything. Can someone please assist.

Thanks

spam@jeeva.net

yeah, i love this game,

but it seems it does not work on my computer,

it starts, but bevor i can see anything, the windows closes!

what can i do ?

i have the same problem (unable to find movie file)... what can i do? please give me an answer

I got the no moviefile too. (Too bad I threw out my CD not too long ago:(:(:()
does anybody know a way to turn the movies off?

Hi Everybody! Greetings from Argentina. :ok:
Ive tried every possible way to make this game work properly. DosBOX isn't a good option as it freezes sooner or later (in my particular case when I try to build a cement factory). I followed the advice of some people in this forum and tried with Virtual Pc from Micro$oft. The game works flawlessly. It was quite complicated to make things work, but I learned how to do it and I'll explain it briefly:

You will need:

Virtual Pc
you can download a demo from:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
Or buy it or get it somewhere else

Dos Virtual Machine Additions

You can use the Constructor version from this page (I copied the videos from my old cd so I could see them, the cd didn't work)

And the OS I use is FreeDOS
http://www.freedos.org/
I've downloaded the Beta9 cd iso version

You can also use MsDos but I had problems installing it so I turned to FreeDOS
Im going to try with Windows 95 and the patch for constructor


Well, You should read the help file for using Virtual Machine (it isn't very hard) and create a Virtual disk in which you are going to insall the OS. Then, once you've done this, you should install the Dos Virtual Machine Additions. With this you will be able to share your physical computer folders with the virtual environment. In this case, you share the folder where Constructor is installed. Then, from the virtual PC you enter the folder and run the game.

I'd like to add that as far as I know this is the best way to run any Dos game because it doesn't eat your computer recourses as DosBOX does. Take into account that FreeDOS is compatible with most DOS programs, but not all.

Well this is....
My final task is to make the network work so I can play with friends this awesome game :D

Perhaps we will end reviving all computers so to play...but well, I hope this help you guys and if anybody knows anything about LAN game in Constructor (The option exists, as in the menu appears "Net not available" or something like that) or FreeDOS or Virtual PC please tell me

Good Luck!

Hi, i download this game before, and don´t work in my ms-dos (i have Windows Milenium) but, i download again and download the DOSBOX, and run very good.
If you don´t know how use DOSBOX, use the tutorial in the same page were you can download it.
ADIOS!! MX

i again, :cry: i play good this game in windows ME until i build a factory, the game lag and i do the page 4 of this forum say and result but is very slow yet, i do that in windows xp and i can play good, but in windows ME no :(

Is it somehow possible to get it to work in xp?

Great site you got here :ok:

Hello there people. I've recently picked up this game again. I'm using the stuff I got on Abandonia and well I even used the tips on how to accelerate it and make it atleast possible to build a Wood factory, but apperantly it still crashes whenever I try to build an Cement factory. :blink:
How do I get it to work, for an entire game? I get error with spool flic something... :tai:

U can use DosBOX..Im lucky so i dont have to use anything :P

Hi!
i download this game from this page... until this is ok
the game doesnt have a install file?? or my download doenst work very well?!?
so... i dowload the program dosbox and i do exactly as say in the tutorial, but when i type "cd constructor" it says: "unable to change to: constructor" and doesnt open the folder... and i can't play this game, im already without brain trying to make this work! :wall:
anyone can help me please!! i need to play this game!! :help:

thanks!!

Kisses!

If you're on dosbox and the game folder's named "constructor" then you should have to type "cd constr~1"

thanks!
ok i open the game... but now, i click in the caracter and the game close and apears a message from dosbox like this : ERROR= unable to epool file. \flics\HSEHOMEB.FLC
i think that i dont have this file... i even can make the caracter walk!
and one question... how do i make to the game became full screen??

Go to Game Settings and set Display All Video Animations to No.

For fullscreen, use Alt-Enter.

Hey!
anyone can help me??
when i try to build something, the games became to slow and i takes at least 20 minuts only for place the build in the right place...

I have this game every time I run it with does box it says the constructor cd need to be in the drive but I put it in I am wondering if I should download this one as I see a lot of coments about having trouble with this can any one advise me about it

Er..How can you built laboratory sheds?

can you help me :help:

I do the download of the game but wen i start goes a blak scren and after that close the game

You're trying to run it in Windows, right? Don't. Use DOSBox.

Ei some of you speak spanish?

i need know how this game play multiplayer online our somthing

so hablen espa?ol! malditos yankies australianos putos uruguay perdio pero volvera y ganara malditos inadaptados britanicos mal olientes ke forman australia pudranse

ei every you guys nothing knows but this game is really good im know this ... :ph34r:




:Brain:

Some may speak spanish, but not all, please TRY to keep to english ^_^

I have the real CD
EDIT: That's all nice and swell, but the game is up here. If you wish to contribute the complete ISO image to the site, you're more then welcome to contact us, but sending this game out individually to people sounds a bit too fishy.

Iirc Constructor multiplayer only works on network, not online.

Its really a good game, but sounds ang movies are missing....

You don't want to know what he's saying. I just realized that most of the people that write "non-english" posts, only do it because they are stupid enough to think they can call everybody "dirty" names and no one will understand them.

I'm surprised that someone even bothered to answer him.

Here's my answer to you:
tu eres lo inadaptado, chico; nosotros comprendemos el ingles, si tu no lo comprendes, eso es un problema teu e personas como tu no son benvindas aqui. :Titan:

Responding to an insulting post by another insult is not as good as pushing the "report this post" button :D

Shrek didn't insult him, though, did he? As far as I can tell he simply told him that if he didn't understand English, that was his problem and that people who acted that way weren't welcome here.

Nice game i like it

The game's already a big enough download without them :P plus you can still find the full CD version on bargain bins or something (at least I have).

Anyone know how to build pond in the park?

Does this game work in windows XP?Or can you get it in XP?or sum...

There is a Win95 patch, but unfortunately it works only with the CD version, which isn't hosted on Abandonia. Anyway, no chance to get it running in XP. Constructor was rather unstable even in it's original version on a decent PC the time it was released.

Anyone to help me??????

when i try to build a house the game becames to slow! it take more to put the house in the right place to make money!
i stoped to play because this!
its only im my pc??
* my windows is 2000

Thanks!!

It happen the exact thing to me, i stopped playing it because of this... but i think i will retake (o como se escriba :D ) it because it is one of the best games i ever play, along whit Commandos I

I'd love to play the game, but for some reason, when I click on the game icon, it opens, then flashes and goes back to Windows. :/

Hey for everyone who is having problem's whit this awsome game, try Street Wars (Constructor 2), I'm having no problems running it whit XP, work's perfectly well BUT (always a but...) you need to make some missions (that suck's)... but it is just like Constructor... I download from e-donkey, and i also download constructor, but it dosn't let me install it, sais that need Windows 95 jaja...

By the way, you can put Constructor 2 in the page, because the bussiness that make the game is no longer exist, i meen, it is in banckrout (o como carajo se escriba ajjaja)

well, sorry by my english :P greeting's from Argentina

I played Mob Rule (Street Wars), but I don't like games which only have a campaign mode and nothing else. I love skirmish-like modes, where I get all the freedom I want. By the way, I think Mob Rule isn't abandonware yet, so you better not suggest illegal ways to get it.

PS: Guarda, chabón, eso no se revela. :whistle:

jaja

yes, it is abandon, because nobody buy the right of the game... so, nobody is the owner :D

I downloaded the game half a year ago, but then i acidentually removed it from my computer, and now it's not downloadable :blink:
But luckly i found another site and now it's at 17% of downloading :sneaky:

Hello everyone,

I have a question, that some of you might be able to answer.
I have en original game on a cd, but I can't run it on my computer? I guess it's because I'm using winxp, but is there no chance for me playing this game ever again? I don't understand the part with the dosbox - does it mean, that I can play the game if I get dosbox on my computer - or?

Please help me someone... :-) Then I will be very happy, because I miss playing it. ;-)
Thanx!!

I keep getting an error. When I start a new game and click on the top icon on the left, it crashes the game an the following error apears:

"Error = Unable to spool file .\flics\HSEHOMEB.FLC"

Does anybody know the reason? Oh, and when I look in the directory"flics" that (HSEHOMEB.FLC) is missing. HELP!!!

Hi everybody.
Dumb question (please forgive me for wasting server sapce if these has been discussed before) : Is there ABSOLUTELY NO WAY to get the game runing in xp?! The error mesage I recieve is something like "not enough memory". Any chance to get it goin if I disable any unnecesary drivers or programs?!

Make sure you have Video Animations (or something similiar) disabled in the Options.

tHANK YOU!! It works now perfectly. :D

But how do you place trees? I have a gadget shop, with 10 trees in it, but I don't know how to put them. I know how put windows and computers in houses but not trees. And how do you get more workers. I WANT MORE CONSTRUCTION TEAMS!!

Balacay, if I remeber corectly, you have to bulild homes, and have people move in, am get the bedroom to level 5 if possible. They'll have kids- wich turn into workers that can be recruited from your HQ. The trees can only be planted on green terrain, if I am not mistaking! You have a "plant" option; with it you can place not only trees, but also ponds , dog kennels etc. One you have selecte the spot, a pole will appear in that place and somebody ( a foreman? ) will come and actually place the object on the spot when you will have it on stock in your gadget factory.


PS: now can anyoune pleeeease help me with MY problem? I'm the one who put the previous post to this, also signed as "guest".

it´s my faworite game in history but i can´t play it because when i start the game .
a error comes
ERROR= could not allocate real mode memory.
memory location error
cannot locate command, system halted

what should i do. :cry:

Why wont it work... please help me.
i cant start the game in windows (XP)
but if i run the cmd and try to run it i get ERROR = unable to initialise network drivers! (0x0)
does somebody know whats wrong?

BTW is there a manual to this game?

OK, GUYS!! I have XP and I'me managed to get it runnin by doing the following: I got the lastest version of doxbox, and D-fend. I've done some settings, it now appers to work, but it starts to move incredibly slow (read this: "almost stops") when I clik on the build button, and select the lumber yard. this sux!! All the settings in the "setup" that you must make using the D-fend (wich just makes it easyer, and with a user-frienly interface to use DBox) have "sumpthin' " to do with yer computer's configuration. But dun know exaclty how, or wich one goes where. Has anyone used D-fend with the dosbox before?? I think any one else with XP and such problems should post here, by the way, maybe we can work it out toghther.

Made it work finally (im' the "guest" that posted above) ! Now I have another problem :D
Does anyone have a trainer, or knows any file editing cheats for the game? Money.. Lumber, Bricks, Gadgets in stock etc? The lack of funds, combinend with the task that tha council gives me (wich cost a lot of $$$) drive me mad.


Edit: I really can't understand some messages that come from some of my tenants. And I DO know how to speak english.
For example: "This stuf you just delivered is crap. It's about time you build a new factory around here otherwise no one will buy your products" (or something like that). :blink: :blink: THis message comes in this case from hippies. Not the kind you'd expet to say "Aye, mate. Yer cement factory's gone quiet. I want mor noise and polution around" like the punks do. :blink: :blink:

What exactly do they want?? Sometimes the're just not specific enough. And I didn't fin this in FAQs or manuals. Does anybody know?

if i recall the game.. they WANT noise :P

The accents in the game were awesome too !

Yes it was quite the fun game to play!

I love the game but i have one major question: how do you add ponds and dogcases and stuff to houses and parks, cuz if i dont know, i wont be able to complete the task of the park with 8 trees and a pond. :cry: Someone please help me? :blink:

Iirc, you need a gadget shop. You build them there, then place them with the Tree button on the sidebar.

Yeah, but, damn it! Do I have to build another factory on their lot.... that I've allready ocupied with other buildings?? this would mean tearing sumptin donwn. I usally wait till i cand evict da muthas.. What is weird is that I got this messeges not from punk, but from level 1 slobs. Level 1 tenants dindin't have this kind of (dumb) request as I can recall.

Yeah, but, damn it! Do I have to build another factory on their lot.... that I've allready ocupied with other buildings?? this would mean tearing sumptin donwn. I usally wait till i cand evict da muthas.. What is weird is that I got this messeges not from punk, but from level 1 slobs. Level 1 tenants dindin't have this kind of (dumb) request as I can recall. [/b][/quote]
Actually they do give you that sort of requests. It just takes longer than with punks.

Hey Guys! I`ve found the CD Image file! Go to www.isohunt.com and search for Constructor. You will need BitComet to download the file. The file is an .mdf file so you will need Magic ISO to burn it on a CD. But once you've done it, you will be able to burn a nice, full version of original Constructor. For best performance use old graphics cards, old Sound Blaster cards and offocurse Win95/98. Sounds funny, but that's the way it is. For those who have used BitComet before, don't worry, I will be seeding this file, so you know that there will be at least one seeder!

Thunderstuck: Unfortunatly what you are discussing is illegal.....

Hey, Constructor is such an old game and there are no copyrights anymore. Nobody owns it. So it is legal. Besides, even if I wanted to do it nice and purely clean, I couldn't. Can you tell me a place, where to buy the Constructor CD? I'd really buy it, but noone sells it.

navarro, how do you fixed your constructor? I have the same programs and doesn´t work.

Well... it took a while, but I fixed it. Have you installed your "D-fend" in the DosBox Directory as it says there?
Once you' ve done that, a window should appear on screen when you run d-fend. You then clik on the add profile icon on the left of the toolbar in the upper part of the window.

You than must browse just like when creating a shortcut, and select the .exe file of the old game you want to run. And the set up file. Then, it's just a matter of "screwing" around with those settings. They must sumhow be according to your computer's configuration.. or al least sumthing close. The memory setings are the most difficult to get right. THis old games don't have enough memory availble to run, beacause of the way too many drivers and prograns, and whatever that a computer constantly runs when operating nowadays (plugins, graphixboards, dunno -kinda lost touch with the hardware/computer world in the last years). Leave a e-mail, or mail me @ the adress in my profile, and I cam probably tell you more.
Sorry, I've seen your post a bit late. Hope it's still of some use to you.
Keep in touch.

What version of Windows dou you use? I have XP, and amazingly it worx.


ps: TheSuper. Thanx for you answers. :bye:

Wenas, alguien habla espa?ol? Me pueden ayudar con el D-Fend V2 para jugar al Constructor, plz? Un saludo!!!!

Si usted entiende inglés, intente leer mi poste arriba. O babelfish del uso del intento. O si cualquiera sabe el spansih e inglés, intento que traduce el míos. No puedo hablar espa?ol. Apesadumbrado.

is this game the prequel to Mob Rule?

oopz sorry...i just found out that it went Constructor, Street Wars then Mob Rule. Funny thing is ive got a copy of Street Wars and Mob Rule and its teh exact same game...only the logo is different. Does anyone own these 2 copies and have the same problem?

By the way... 'never played Street Wars. It is still under license/copyright control??! If not, is there any place I could find it on the internet for downloading?

Thank you.

Yaay! :) I've got 2 computers with Win98 SE installed on both of them and the full version of Constructor too (400 MB). In order to play multiplayer you must set up an IPX connection protocol, TCP/IP will NOT work! I connected the two computers via crossed-ethernet cable. Works fine! :) IPX is stable, but only in LAN. You can't play through internet. LAN is fine for me! :) It is really challanging to compete against each other (human players), much MUCH more fun than playing against a computer enemy.. Besides, computer enemies CHEAT!!! They can build houses even if wood yard is not built. And they have unlimited money, because you can steal from them forever. Which means they don't have to worry about the rent and they can make tenants to make babies only. And they never upgrade rooms, they don't need it.

Hi, OK, so I downloaded Constructor. I read all the forums and ended up downloading DOSBox, learning how to use it, then it was too slow, so I downloaded D-Fend, which took away the slow-ness NOW all I have left are complete disabling of movies. Everyone here is saying goto options in the game and disable the animations yet the options in the game only let you disable them alittle bit. So, does anyone here know how to disable all animations COMPLETELY? I'm assuming one would have to go into the files wich ==complicated stuff yet I'm pretty good at figuring out by trial and error. Please help, I've done my part by learning about cpu cycles, dosbox, and D-fend. Thank you so much :cheers:

Does anybody know what to do when you have flood in land?
Tnx

OMG! I did everything but it doesn't run on my PC, i open the game.exe, the screen turn black in a ms dos window, but it gets back to my windows :~~

what do i do?

WINDOWS XP

Hmmm.... sounds like a classic DOSBox problem.

you mind telling the world what you did to make it work? im looking at the exact same problem, and no matter what tweaking i do (using d-fend, anything else is silly) it will not go away...

just tryed some more, and i have a feel that setting the core to "normal" seems to remove the problem. not 100% sure but its typical that i get it working the moment i have asked someone else what their fix was...

heh, that guest is me. and it looks like its not the type of core thats the issue, but a need for atleast 9000 cycles before the build problem goes away...

Well, that's pretty much the basic idea... nothing to "strangeorous" regarding the settings... 1 or 2 frameskips, cpu core- normal, no doublebuffering and other stuff like that. Just try to set it rather like you'd like your computer to be
(or like most of them were in the days when these games were new) than trying to make the settings as close as possible to your "super-machine"
...
I dunno. Worked for me.

is there a way to play constructor without dosbox?

I doubt it!! Not unless you have an old computer. (with the hardwae that was on the market at the time of the game). Or win

i can download it all but it wont run

im on xp

^
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i love this game i have played it b4 but for some reason when i download it and go to start it up i get a few doz boxes pop up then nothing can anyone tell me how to get the game working :cry:

Download the dosbox and D-fend, look through the pages above, you might just aboutl find the solution to your problems...

what to do whit the "unable to find movie" file error?????????????

I have a similar problem with my game that I also have on CD... but if it's the one you dowloaded from this site, it might be a memory error (even though it appears to have nothing to do with this)... try to allocate some more with (and again we go to....) d-fend+dosbox.

I'm having troubles to configure the *meep*in' Virtual PC 2004 ...
ok ... i install it , create a virtual disk with MS-DOS...
than i try to install FreeDOS, create a FAT32 partition...
now i reset the "system" and try to boot from hd, but it appears "partition signature != 55AA"... the only way to use FreeDOS is on safe mode, but i can't do nothing in safe mode... :ranting:
and than? what i have to do?

(sorry my bad english)
:help: :help: :help:

hey i downloaded this game and it dont work for me any ideas on how to get it workin

My two cents:

After owning it on CD years ago I downloaded this last night from here, and I LOVE it. I already have my PC setup to dual boot when I start it up. I can choose XP (which I use for the internet, music, work, etc) or ME (where I have my older games which don't run that great under XP,) and have my hard drive split into two seprate drives, one for each OS.

So, I moved the zipfile to my ME drive. Went into ME. Unzipped it with the standard "Extract to..." command from the right-click menu. Put the unzipped files into a folder called CN (like the old original game used to go into.)

Open MS-DOS Prompt from ME (not DOSBox or Virtual PC or anything like that) and expand it to full screen, and type:

C:\> cd\CN

C:\CN> game

Of course I ran SETSOUND.BAT first and chose appropriate sound drivers, and it runs absolutely flawlessly. Just in an MS-DOS shell under Windows Me. I think the problems most are having are to do with Windows XP.

Maybe you could try that...?

can any one give me a specific setup of the game... plz... it always crashes before i could put the first building. i try to config the dosbox.conf but still i cant figure it out whats wrong. im using a 3.0(p4) windows xp(sp2) with a 6200 turbo cache video card and a 512mb of ram.. pls if you have any idea email me at uplink.com.net.ph@gmail.com. Thanks in advance

You might need to reconfigure the game's internal setup to match values in Dosbox.conf.

How can i get this game to work in xp

i have the same prob...
i try to start this game but nothing happenes...

pls help i love this game...

Did you read the Compatibility info in the review?
It's very straightforward in conveying a simple information that...
THE GAME DOES NOT WORK WITH XP!!!

Also, remember to run a search in the Troubleshooting next time round... these threads might have your question answered a dozen times over.

All these pages and pages of stuff on getting it to run which I managed to do on the first try, and nothing on how play. I've spent half an hour alternating between trying to do stuff and watching the AI to see how it does stuff.

I can't figure out how to do anything except move guys around (and make workers form up into foreman groups and follow foremen around). I feel like such an idiot.

:help:

By the time I would return here I'll have probably figured it out on my own; nevertheless some info here for future people in my shoes would be nice.

I got a problem with the downloaded Constructor from this site. Every time I lose the game goes back to DOS and say a error message like: The playable movie file was missing.

It seems like the zip file doesnt have all nessecary files...

Can I get some support?

Try redownloading.

Ok, I will try that but I heard that other got the same problem...

Nope.

I tried to download but it got the same problem. Perhaps Abandonia doesnt have all files for Constructor.

i dont care wat people say... I LOVE THIS GAME...although i would love to try the sequel. :D

If you experience lag problems using dosbox, which i did, you can speed up the fps using ctrl+F12, you'll see on the title bar of dosbox how quick you made it, 12000 works well, and i use crtl+8 for frameskip and set that to 3.. goodluck!

i can't play it i think its because of my 64bit chip thats the only think i can think off :cry: :cry: :cry:

And I think you don't think enough. This game is notorious for having trouble with operating under Windows XP by itself.

Sorry If Im asking a silly question, but Im new! :help:

I have downloaded this game how do I get it to work in XP? :help:

I played this when it first came out and it was soo good Ive been looking for it for bout 3 years now! I HAVE FINALY FOUND IT YAAAAY! :bannana:

But I cant work out how to use it! :cry: :wall:

Dosbox, dosbox, dosbox. It's about 15th time I repeat it today.

DOSBOX IZ TEH ANSWER!!!!

Anyone in here found out a nice way to get rid of enemy thiefs and residents?
Whenever I get those assignements, I am not able to make it since I dont have sufficient bad guys. I remember the mob housr can send a mafia guy over there to backstab them, but I never get to the point where it is possible :)

So, any hints would be appreciated :D

I need some help!! Everytime i try to start the screen turns black then it returns to windows, what do i need to do?? :sos:

i've got it working :D but i cant build. when i click on the wood yard the game gets stuck.. help pls

Or it starts to lag, jumps over 8 days

ok guys im wanting to start up constructor again but i have no idea how to use DOSBOX can someone help?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ May 30 2006, 06:31 PM) [snapback]233334[/snapback]</div>sorry guys is was me that did this post, wasnt signed in LOL
anyway if anyone can help contact me on here or my msn msn@adracooper.co.uk

Absolutely have to use DOSBOX.. you can get it from abandonia...

Problems using dosbox? You need to mount the folder containing constructor..
---Type "help" and dosbox will show you how to mount the folder so you can access it.

If you experience lag problems in dosbox (e.g. jump 8 days or whatever) use crtl+F12 until the emulate speed is at 12000.. later in the game you might have to speed the emulation up more.

good luck

There is a DosBox FAQ on the main page, another on the DosBox home page and a few more in our Troubleshooting forum.

Also, if you are new to this kind of stuff, you might consider using D-Fend, a frontent utility that allows you to create different sets of configs for your games.

Where do you find the gadget factory? i cant findit anywhere :wallbash: :crybaby: :hairpull: :ranting: :sos:

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Jun 14 2006, 01:31 PM) [snapback]236731[/snapback]</div> i can't build a building becous my computer trips when i click on a building :sos:

how to trim the hedge in the hippy houses?

Hey guys, im trying to play constructor but i cant run it, beacause i have xp. i would asking if anyone can explain waht i have to do to install it, and to play it, step by step plz... thank u cya

Jeez. Just read this thread and remember to run a search in Troubleshooting forum. Not so hard to do.

i love that game, but it's too dificult (even with cheats)

can any one good hearted post the full version of this game , it is very classic brings back old memories :)

tnx in advance :)

The version on Abandonia _is_ full.

Hi, I don't have a scanner but I have been thinking about either taking photos of my manual or simply writing it up (started a while ago already at 10,000 words) and placing the correct images in. If I can't get good quality photos then I will continue writing this manual but I can't say when that would be done the manual is hard to get perfect and it even has spelling mistakes (very foolish ones at that) so as to make Acclaim look better I have corrected them. ^_^ For example they wrote "many" instead of money, they really should have proof read it properly.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(theduke2011 @ Jun 13 2006, 04:47 PM) [snapback]236485[/snapback]</div>When YOU toggle the auto-repair on a repair man, you must also make him walk to any of the buildings on the esatate of your choice. The repairman will then automaticly go around that estate and fix buildings around. It' not enough to just select auto-repair. Have you tried that?

@all the others that have posted on this thred page: the answers to your questions are in this thread. Take a bit of time and go through it. You'll find a lot of usefull info.

Cheers.

Do you people READ sometime? This is an old game and does NOT run in XP. In fact there are only two ways running this game. It is either DOSbox on a WinXP machine or a Win98 on old hardware. The second option is better ofcourse. And Abandonia: you DON'T have the full version here. Full version is like over 300 MB. I have the full version, old hardware, Windows 98SE and I can play multiplayer (LAN only though) with NO faults! God damn people, if you really want to play this game, go get the hardware and the full version!

The full version indeed doesn't work on xp at all, but the abandonia version works perfectly fine on my computer, and I have xp, :huh: and some pretty good hardware. I have said before in this thread how I did it!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(navarro @ Jul 2 2006, 11:54 AM) [snapback]241011[/snapback]</div> Sorry navarro, I meant those many people who are whining about such features which are only available in full version. By the way, is there a true legal way how to get the full version now? I got mine via BitComet because I simply couldn't find it anywhere on sale. And because Acclaim is dead, I think it is OK to do so. What's your opinion?

Hey,

I've found a Manual :brain: , a walktrough some cheats, etc. at

http://dlh.net

just search for "constructor" in the upper left corner. Some of the material presented is in german, but the manual is in english.

Seems it is only a text manual, so I may aswell continue writing up my manual with the correct images and such, but good find.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Jul 2 2006, 05:02 PM) [snapback]241049[/snapback]</div>If Acclaim is dead indeed, :whistling: as long as there aren't any webpages pointing you how to pay for buying this game (online - ofcourse), I don't think there's a problem with that. But just try not to share it anyway - just in case. Get it just for personal use.

constructor was such a brilliant game so i downloaded it without any hesitation and also i downloaded dosbox and and other program that was written in the compibility.. from now on what should i do thank you?

Check http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php? - it is quite helpful for users unfamiliar with DosBox.

guys in fact there is such a brilliant way to run the program(game) it'S d-fend v2.. download it then it works with dosbox in synergy..in god we trust:D

Still nobody has given an answer to the question what to do when the game returns to dosbox and says : "unable to find Movie file"

does nobody knows it?

If you have this version of constructor that you get from abandonia, AS I HAVE SAID BEFORE, it has nothing to do with any movie files despite the error message. Tweak those dosbox settings using D-Fend.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(navarro @ Jul 17 2006, 04:05 PM) [snapback]243642[/snapback]</div>
Ok, i understand, thnx

is there some easy way of explaining how to "tweak those dosbox settings"?

Yes. Use D-Fend. Or read the official FAQ at the DosBox site.

That i did, downloaded D-fend and dosbox

but running with d-fend i get the same thing,

but i don't know how to tweak the settings with d-fend, is there something i should deactivate/activate to not get this?

And i can't find anything in FAQ or on Forums

about crashing to windows with the message : "Unable to find Movie File"

It's quite annoying because i was starting to enjoy the game, i've been playing for like a hour and a half when the game crashes

[font=Arial][size=4] Any Body Here Know where I can find the Street Wars (Mod Rule) freeware????? :hairpull:

You mean a shareware version of streetwars?! I'd like to see that!

@Olaf. Post here a list of the settings you have made for constructor. (Everthing, like did you tick the "behave inteligently" box, or the "use XMS" or "game need loadfix" box, stuff like that. Maybe I can give you some advice...

edit:
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Olaf @ Jul 17 2006, 04:33 PM) [snapback]243648[/snapback]</div>Ahaaaaaaaaaaah. I thout this message occured to you (becasue it happend to me too) BEFORE starting the game. Well that has nothing to do with the dosbox or your sistem. Let me explain:

If you've been playing the game for only 1h 30 mins, you probably get sacked for some reason: debt at the bank, land usage of your estates (not enough), to many black marks you get from unsatisfied tenants, failure to fullfill a task given by the city council (dunno wich of these, but I'm quite sure it is one of them). Well, when you get sacked, a movie is played (like some sort of an "outro"). And the game ends, anyway. Because the abandonia version is not 100% complete (missing movie filex and probably other not so important crap fo the game)... there you have it.
Just start a new game try to go with it. Let us now if it works. :cheers:

If you have any question about how to play this game, visit svatopluk.com. There you can answers to some of your basic questions. It helped me a lot :ok:

By the way. Ar there any trainers for the game? THe chets don't work in windows.

I'm really thankful. I have the CD and since I upgraded to win XP i haven't been able to play this game. I downloaded this constructor.zip and just copied the game.exe to the previos installed (full instalation) dir ,opened it on dosbox and changed de cycles to 10000 and it worked really good. With vids and all languages and everything. I just completed the first mission now. :brain: I've never done this before.

When I try to run this game, it gives me the error; Error = Unable to locate network drivers...

I'm not all that good with a computer, but it was one of my favorite ones back then... :D Help anyone?

Can anyone tell me how to add the movie files from my CD to dosbox plz? when i copy the whole lot to dos box it says it needs to run from d drive and i followed tutorial instructions to run from c drive all the time. I have searched thread but no joy

thanks in advance

wonderfull, thnx to the person who explained how to deal with the lag (cause it was annoying).

I have downloaded it and extracted all the files. i double-click on game and a black screen appears then another one straight after it filling the whole screen, it has a few lines of writing on it and it goes away within a few seconds. i have not dowbloaded dosbox or anything like that.





Please help me!!!!!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Aug 15 2006, 03:46 PM) [snapback]248719[/snapback]</div>Well, do that wich you said you haven't firs! It happend to all others who run on win98,xp,me etc. :huh:

thanx say i know its a big ask but could you sort of help me step by step or whenevr i have problems






p.s just out or interest do u support Rapid or Steau(sp)

off-topic: I'm not much of a soccer (football) fan! :)

right i am stuck now i am on http://www.abandonia.com/main.php?nav=games&FAQ=1 and everything has worked fine, i have used constructor instead of flash. everything has worked fine until i got to the part where you type install, when i do that it says illegal command: install, then when i do setup it says illegal command setup. when i do config it says:

C:\CONST\config
config tool :
Use -writeconf filename to write the current config.
Use -writelang filename to write the current language strings.


p.s i just wanted to know what team u supported because my team Middlesbrough F.C knocked out steaue in the semi-final of the uefa cup and all the rapid fans were happy

There is still an error if you set the animation off ... Error: can't find the movie or something like that =\

Animations are little movies that are played in the game's toolbar screen on the upper-right, movies are played full screen mode. If the movie files are missing and are "called for" the game crashes.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Aug 19 2006, 06:29 AM) [snapback]249573[/snapback]</div>That was me posting above, I wasn't logged in. Sorry.

I have lag when a factory is on my screen. who knows how fo to fix that? I have read this entire thread. I use D-fend and have changed the settings ( memsize/cycles/fullscreen ). When I don't have a factory on my screen the game runs as it should.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Aug 21 2006, 09:30 PM) [snapback]250074[/snapback]</div>The problem went away for me when I set Cycles to 13000.


The problem I'm getting is that hitting Alt+Enter doesn't full-screen it, just presents it the same size with a gert black border around it.


Other than that, all is well under WinXP and Dosbox!

I fund out, if you want to play Network in this game, type in DOSBOX:

IPXnet startserver - The server

Test: In my version after this, Network is working :sneaky:

IPXnet connect - for client

For help: IPXnet help

Thats is :-)

could someone please tell me what i have to do to play this stupid game. there are so many different threads with very little help.they tell u a small bit of information. i have downloaded the game and wen i go to play it, it goes full screen and then dies. I just downloaded DOSBOX but havnt got a clue what you need to type in where and when in order to play. Thanks!:)

Dosbox: Basic Setup and Installation

There are several other FAQ's on the subject, one on main Abandonia site and some threads on this very subject in Troubleshooting forum. I'm too busy to go looking after them for you, but... well, I think you can find them yourself without much problem.

Assuming you now have DOSBox installed...

Step 1: Download and Install D-Fend from HERE.

Step 2: Using the D-Fend wizard, browse to the constructor GAME.EXE file where it says Game EXE. You don't need anything in the setup box. Type "Constructor" as the profile name. Go to the next page (Button marked >>)

Step 3: On the next page, choose 15000 under the cycles dropdown box. Default settings work fine for the rest of this page. Click next.

Step 4: Click Auto Create, and go to the next page.

Step 5: Click next FOUR times, to get to the memory requirements page; use the dropdown box to set 63mb.

Step 6: Click next, then click finish. You will return to the D-Fend main screen.

Step 7: Right-click Constructor in the D-Fend window, and choose Run Game.

Step 8: Once you're in the main window, be sure to navigate to Game settings and change "Display all video animations" to 'No'

Step 9: You can hit Alt + Enter when the game is the active window to fullscreen it. The same key combination will drop out of fullscreen when you're done. You may want to lower your desktop resolution temporarily to 800x600 or so to view it best.

Step 10: Henjoy. Great game, but devilishly hard.

I have a problem. I'm fine with lag and all that junk, but whent he game is open in dosbox through D-fend (won't work without it) if I click on different things the game just shuts itself off?? Any ideas??

Please don't shout at me! In the space of 3hrs I have carefully read this thread and followed intructions but still can't get this game to work.

So far I have downloaded the game downloaded dosbox 0.65 and downloaded d-fend. It's saying my dosbox isn't configued and won't run dfend. I have found the idiots guide to dosbox but still can't configue it please can someone email me a step by step guide on how to get this game running. I will remove all downloads and start again if ness. removed.ok

Many thanx

Scooby :ok:

You might want to check out the official DosBox FAQ, and particularly this part of it. It is quite helpful for users unfamiliar with DosBox.

Is it possible to play this game with windows XP?

As far as I know. You might need some tweaking to get it run well, though.

If it doesn't work for you, try using VDMSound or DosBox (both downloadable from Abandonia's programs and utilities page).

been through all the helpful hints and still no joy. tried to install it thru dosbox also but comes up with cd required but the cd is in the drive. I give up! Fooking computers nothing will ever beat the simplicity of the Spektrum +2 48k of raw power! LOAD, PLAY simple BERRRRRRR BIPPPPPPPPP!

Scooby :ok:

Hey you constructor fans!..

I'm just letting everyone know, that i bought a copy of CONSTRUCTOR FOR XP.. On ebay....

type it up, and have fun :)

of course it cost money, but not hassle..

Here's the Link Fellas..

I'm not making any money off this...

I'm just trying to solve some problems...

and if you can buy it for XP..

maybe one of you smart guys out there can figure out how to rip it..

http://cgi.ebay.com/Constructor-Classic-Re...1QQcmdZViewItem

The Guys Handle is:

xp_retro_gaming

thanks mate

Hi i downloaded the game in bout 5mins but i unzipd it and cant figure out how to play/install it..... any clues?

DosBox.

First of all, if you guys (or girls) are still having trouble i've seen most of the posts of which people are having trouble with so here’s what I did...

First of all download Dosbox in one of the above posts and the game itself either from your connection but if it’s too crappy then someone else’s.

Once the Dosbox is done downloading I remember in one of the posts some one said to change the dosbox config and replace some of the text well for you noobs here's how you do it...

Right click on dosbox.cfg file (I don’t think the format letters are correct) and click on properties and once the properties box pops up then click on change where it says | Opens with: dosbox (CHANGE...) | then click on note pad.

Open up the dosbox which should open up note pad and look for the part where it says [cpu] and replace what ever the other guy said and this should fix the lag problem a bit.

Next actually opening the game

Before that you must set up the sound so this is how you do it. You click and drag the file SETSOUND to the dosbox file as in this...| SETSOUND | --DRAG--> | DOSBOX| as the icons (You will also have to do this in most of the games you download from this website if its dosbox is needed...) for all the sound types (MIDI and others you must select AUTO DETECT in which will find the dosbox's emulated sound cards and once your done test the sounds to see if they are working, for the Digital you should hear a old man saying "Hello this is constructor are you receiving??" and for the MIDI you should hear a crappy sci-fi sorta music.

To run constructor do the same thing as SETSOUND but instead do it with the file GAME

Some of the stuff in Constructor are missing (trust me I once had the game) so in Game Settings (in the game) where it says "Display all video animations = Yes) Change it to NO so it wont crash again saying that this and that is missing

This is all I could remember from all your problems but if there are any unsolved ones please email me jax1506@hotmail.com

I will be finding other downloads and seeing if they have all the stuff there since you guys might be annoyed at the fact that your probably thinking that your missing a lot of cool stuff from the animations but your not really…

Try it out, have fun and look out for me!

This is my configuration of the Dosbox (0.65 version), it work well LOL
Attention for these two lines in the section [cpu]
core=dynamic
cycles=auto

This config work well for the most games.

Hi everyone! I've had the same problem you all have: I coudn't play either Constructor or Street Wars (the name of Mob Wars here in Spain and Europe) because I used Windows XP. I really love those games, so I spent a whole week looking for solutions and trying different ways. Finally I heard about Virtual PC. You can download it free from Microsoft, I think (it is also very easy to download from eMule). It's an awsome program that emulates any computer you want, and very easy to use (much more easy and efficient than Dos Box). The only think you need is to create a virtual hard drive and then install the MSDOS (you can find it looking for it in emule, very easy to install too) or download a hard drive with MSDOS (extension .vhd). If you want, you can contact me and I'll send you my virtual hard drive. ([BEEEP]@hotmail.com) The experience was great!! The game works exactly the same as the original (no need to adjust speed), the sound was correct, as well as the graphics. I haven't tried playing Street Wars yet (I'm downloading Windows 95) but I suppose it will run OK. Well, I hope this was useful and you can play them without problems, because they are some awsome game and it's a pity they are no longer played. If you need something just mail me. See u and good luck! :ok:

Hi All
I'm trying to run construtor on a XP machine. I cannot find a solution to the error I'm getting. When i use DosBox to mount the game etc and run the game.exe

I get the following Error

Error = Error reading INSTALL.DAT for PATHS

Hi! I'm running the game in DOSBox, but the graphics isn's working? I cant read the letters or see anything?? I'm running DOSBox on a Machintosh laptop (iBook G4). Do you know what could be wrong?

Been discussed. Read this thread or search the Troubleshooting forum for more details.

this forum is from long time ago.. so i dont spect any answer.. but when i try to excecute.. game.exe.. its like it starts with DOS mode.. but automaticaly.. goes to windows deskop again.. dont know why is that.. i have Gforce 4.. 64mhz. Win XP platform.. any help ?

Use DosBox to run the game. You can download it here.

And as a side note, learn what is the _real_ speeed of your CPU. Because I'm pretty damn sure it's not 64 mhz.

I can fully download it, but when I go to try to play it, it cuts out of the program.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(doma @ Dec 26 2004, 10:27 PM) [snapback]41870[/snapback]</div>
The game runs laggy on a too fast machine. my machine has an AMD 4200+ which lags a lot and is super choppy at times

People that don't know how to configure dosbox....

I found a similar solution to the problem by running virtual pc 2007.

You need a win 98 iso or the actual cd and install it on virtual pc.
I have the original constuctor iso also and it works perfect on virtal pc 2007.
The network play works also and it has all the cinematics and animations on it.

If someone can tell me where I can upload this 450mb iso I'd be happy to share the full thing and include steps on how to run it on virtual pc 2007.

Virtual pc 2007 is free and you can get a win98 iso easy.

EDIT: NVM I just found out that the full installation of 400mb doesn't even include computers in the network play.
The one that is posted on this site has network ability with computers.
The only problem I have now is sound problems where I get a stutter sound that runs until I close the game. Any help?

You can split the archive into several parts and upload to Rapidshare or a similar service.

Once you get a sufficient postcount (I think it's somwhere between 5 an 20 posts... this has been subject to frequent changes ever since it's been put into place), you will be able to access the ISO Cellar forum, which is used specifically for such purposes.

Yeah I was thinking about breaking it down and putting it up on some ftp site but I was hoping someone was having a ftp server where you don't have to have limits on it.

I also found out that the CD includes a win_95 run and a dos function which both are full with movies.
The DOS version has computers included in the multiplayer but the win_95 version doesn't.

I have original CD. Been trying to get this game to work for years, checking back every so often to see if someone has made a patch. So why dosnt someone make a patch. Is it not possible to adapt the games Win95 capability for use with xp. With out using dosbox.

With dosbox people who own original have problems with error message cant find cd. The game isnt that old compared to similar games/older ones. Games that have been adapted for xp. Without understanding the deep complexities I cannot truely comment on this.

Its a pain!

[i]<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Braindead @ Dec 26 2004, 10:38 PM) [snapback]41878[/snapback]</div>I have tried, actually i cant use DosBox, have to read the manual. <_<
I have got a different problem, when i'll get "fired" or whatever it's called the game closes and a dos screen pops up and says, cannot find video, i also dont have any sound, and im running Win98SE, help?
Please?
/
Joel

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Zero @ Mar 16 2007, 07:51 PM) [snapback]283892[/snapback]</div>At my website i have got a server with a limit of 2500 mg, is that enough?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Joel @ Mar 19 2007, 07:18 AM) [snapback]284166[/snapback]</div>As far as I know, not all the movie files are included within the download. I always figured this was just the building movie files though...

@Daniel
same problem, place CD in Cd station :(.
Looked on the internet several times, couldn't find any patch

I mount the .ISO as drive H:\
Then i open DOSBox.. mount drive H:\ as D:\
open D:\ and then i try to open game.exe
but all i get is the text "Error = Constructor cd must be in drive"...

WHAT TO DO ???

First of all... never, NEVER use an external image mounting program with DosBox. Use Dosbox' internal IMGMOUNT utility instead.
Second, you may have to mess with low-level support and labels... Here's how to do it.

where can i download this game??
i want to play it :sos:
thank you :kosta:

umm.. click 'get it'=P
(this is the first time i see that somebody noticed little letters "Discuss this game" sooner than the download link)

Oh, it's happened quite a few times before... vide some of the "cleanups" moved to HoS. :P:

WoW i jUsT noticed that this topic start in dec 21 2004. and i just post now and still active
unbelievable!!!

btw thank you for the answers im downloading the files now...

sorry in my poor english.. im a Filipino..

THANK YOU :kosta:

i download the game and the dos box..

im using windows xp..

what should i do next to play the game??

im noob about this..
sorry..

i can play now...

but theres no sound what should i do??

First of all, are you running it in DosBox?
Second, did you run the game's sound configuration program?

its alright now i can play but its so lag...

so im playing no sound..


btw how can i level my tenants??

Set core=dynamic in DosBox.conf.
Increase frameskip
Increase cycles until the CPU usage is 100% (in FULLSCREEN mode - the windowed mode uses more CPU power)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Daniel @ Mar 17 2007, 09:12 PM) [snapback]284032[/snapback]</div>
Hello
I have original CD too and it works!
You first have to download DOSBox (I have version 0.70)
Don't install the game, you'll have to install it through the DOSBox.
Once you've downloaded the DOSBox, install it.
Put your CD in your cdrom drive.
Open the DOSBox.
Then you must mount your cdrom drive (let's say it's called F:\) so that you can open it in the DOSBox.
You can give this drive another name in your DOSBox but let's say you give it the same letter (f).

But first of all, you have to find out (before mounting your cdrom drive in the DOSBox) what is the number of your cdrom drive, by typing mount -cd + ENTER. This command will tell you the numbers of each of your cdrom drives, either the real ones and the virtual ones.
Once you know the number of the cdrom drive in which you placed your CD, you can type (for windows xp):
mount f F:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl + ENTER.

Explanation:
f = the name of the cdrom drive in the DOSBox
F = the real name of your cdrom drive in your PC
0 (or 1 or 2 or ...) = The number of the cdrom drive, reported by mount -cd
ioctl = for win2k/xp/linux

Once you've typed this, DOSBox tells you "Drive F is mounted as CDRom F:\"
Then you type f: + ENTER
Now you can install your game:
The file in your cd that can install the game is "install.exe"
So you type install.exe + ENTER

You follow the instructions for the installation of your CD.
I had created a folder, BEFORE doing the installation, on my hard drive called "OldGames" and thus I installed the game into this folder.

Once your game is installed, you'll have to mount your folder as a drive in the DOSBox.
Let's take my example: My game is installed in E:\OldGame. Thus, the "game.exe" finds itself in E:\OldGame\ACCLAIM\CN\GAME.EXE

In the DOSBox, once my game was installed, I typed: mount c E:\OldGame + ENTER
Now, E:\OldGame is the drive C:\ in the DOSBox.

NOTE: I think that each time you want to command directly to the DOSBox (like mount your cdrom drive or "mount -cd" or things like that), you have to return to Z:\

Thus to go into my "OldGame" folder, I type: c: +ENTER

Then, each time you want to go further in your folders, you have to type cd "The name of the folder" + ENTER.

So then I type: cd ACCLAIM + ENTER
Then I type: cd CN + ENTER
Then I type: GAME.EXE + ENTER

And my game runs.
And I'm happy :brain:

NOTE: To have fullscreen: ALT + ENTER. And to quit the fullscreen and return to a windowsize: ALT + ENTER.

Each time you'll want to play, you'll have to open your DOSBox, first mount your cdrom drive and then mount your folder where you installed the game, and finally follow the same procedure.

So I hope it will work with you too!!!
Good luck!

P.S.: Sorry for my english, I did the best I could...

@constructionplayer

I tried your instructions but it still says i need the cd in my drive (and i have the original disc in)
I'm cornfuzzled

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Magnum @ May 14 2007, 08:14 PM) [snapback]290279[/snapback]</div>
Did you try to mount your cdrom drive again when you get this message?

Maybe once you've installed the game through the Dosbox is it better to start again from the beginning
and mount your cdrom drive and then mount your game folder... I don't know why it doesn't work
with you.

I get the error "Unable to create Config file directory" when using DosBox. Any help?

CAN ANYONE HELP!
i have downloaded msdos box and constructor but i cant get into the game anyone help please
im a SAD panda

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ May 26 2007, 12:24 AM) [snapback]291381[/snapback]</div>Is this your first game using DOSBox, or did other games work before that?


<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Jun 4 2007, 11:04 PM) [snapback]292932[/snapback]</div>More info, PLEASE! Like:

Give an as exact description of the problem as possible.

BOK PIPLČI,VOC AP JEL VAM BORING IL NOPE? POSIBLI VAM JE BORING! MENI JE TERIBL BORING! AE TALKAJTE SAMTING NA HRVATSKOM A NE NA FAKERSKOM ENGLESKOM............IL GOVAJTE HOMU SVOME U BED I SLIPAJTE DO BESVJESTI ENGLENZINE JETNE! A D BEST VAM JE DA SI TOMATOM BLOVATE OFF GLAVU - :tomato: I ONDA COLAJTE MENE DA VAM HELPAM :sos: JESTE VI OKEY U HADSI SVOJOJ? PA JA VAM DONT HELPALA....E I AKO MI INTKO UBACI SOMTING REPLIKU JA ĆU MU HEDSU ODKATAT :titan: PA BU SE PREJAL :kosta: SVOME.........DONOV KOME......GOVAM JA NAV A VI SE KILAJTE! JESTE ME ANDERSTEND IL VAM HEFTU HANDRID TAJM TALKAT?

Repost that question in English, please. We don't speak Czech here.

Hm well this person is talking a mix of Croatian and English that's barely readable, something along the lines of "I'm bored so I'm writing this etc." deletable spam, yes sir.

Hi...can anyone help me? ;p
I'm getting this message: 'Unable to find Movie File'....but in the game setting there is only the option "display all video animation'...but it doesnt work...and I always get the same message
what do I do? ;x
thanks

i set the 'display all video animation' to no and it works just fine

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(constructor player @ May 16 2007, 03:17 PM) [snapback]290498[/snapback]</div>it's the same with me. i made what u said but it keeps saying constructor cd must be in drive

I read post 261, p.18 by Elwood, which was incredibly helpful. It works as stated and I think it confirms I have configured both DOS Box and D-Fend correctly. However, I get the exact same problem as IcenFlame (post 277, p. 19 - sorry I don't know how to do quotes on this forum):

Hi All
I'm trying to run construtor on a XP machine. I cannot find a solution to the error I'm getting. When i use DosBox to mount the game etc and run the game.exe

I get the following Error

Error = Error reading INSTALL.DAT for PATHS

Does anyone have any idea what this is about?

You need to edit Install.dat to include correct paths to where the game directory is located in DOSBox

i don't want to be rude or sth... but why can't just sbdy up the .iso of that game?:[
i already wanted to pay it but i can't find one with a price below 40~ euros...
also this game wont make any trouble being uploaded, because its already that old... plsss. =)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(FuN @ Jul 16 2007, 08:45 PM) [snapback]299722[/snapback]</div>Ok, ISOs is an "issue" here in the sense they are usually too huge for AB. BUT: Register as a member, post helpful posts for guests and other members to enjoy, and who knows what will come out of it ;)

What Midget meant is: We've got an ISO of it in what we call the ISO Cellar. However, that is only accessible for registered users with 20 or more posts.

oh :] sry... didn't know that...
gogo register! ^.^

Just one thing... don't try spamming to get that postcount in one day.
It shouldn't be a problem to get 20 posts over a period of three to five days. Just take a look on what discussions are going on and participate. Look around, try to help with something if you can - for example, that sorting project we've got going in the Requests forum is a perfect opportunity to rack in some easy posts.

PS. Remember that posts made in 3xBlah don't increase your postcount.

niether competition/games btw

MISSION PROBLEM:

I`ve been playing for a while and I`ve been given a task to build 4 MOCK TUDOR houses on one estate with a greenhouse and trees. The problem is I can build only 3 mock tudor houses. I`ve tried to solve this problem by capturing my enemy`s tudor house with sorroundig buildings (to destroy them) and build my 3 tudor houses. The problem is that computer makes so small gardens in all his tudor houses that I CANT put a geenhouse in it.

Anyone help?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hoverowski @ Jul 17 2007, 05:30 PM) [snapback]299891[/snapback]</div>
Mhm... can't you just destroy the computers mock tudor houses? I mean just take over his "mock Tudor" houses and then destroy them. Now you should be able to build more than 3 because there is a maximum number of houses that can be build of one type!
greetz Its0nlyFun

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Its0nlyFuN @ Jul 17 2007, 07:39 PM) [snapback]299927[/snapback]</div>
Mhm... can't you just destroy the computers mock tudor houses? I mean just take over his "mock Tudor" houses and then destroy them. Now you should be able to build more than 3 because there is a maximum number of houses that can be build of one type!
greetz Its0nlyFun
[/b][/quote]

That did the trick. Thanks! :)

Hmmm...i have a problem with water leakage, well, basically the house starts leaking water, and i couldn't find a way to stop it, so i say, "what the hell" and destroy the house, little do i know its spreads to all the rest of the houses on the estate, i had too much stress with it i just quit :P

So, my question is, how do you fix leaking water in houses?

Hi guys!
I had this game long time ago, so I decided to download it and try to play it.
I installed the Windows Version and tried to play it with the Compatibility Windows 95 on Windows XP.
But when I run it it asks me for CD. Anyone has a solution?

well, the game should be run in dosbox and dont forget to disable 'display all animations' in the menu

Well, but dosbox seems to be a pain in the behind to configure.
All I need is to find a way to pass by the problem of not having a CD in the drive (or a pirate one, as I lost the original). Would be easier, wouldn't be? As there isn't a crack (or I didn't find one), someone knows any other way?
Would appreciate some help.

its not realy a pain=) just run it and it took me 1 minute to mount drive. after downloading dosbox (there are default configs already) just type in "intro" in to console and everything is explained in there.. and if you still dont get it then there are step-by-step walkthroughs on the site

btw the game is cracked already, its issue with your NT operation system

Well, if you need a crack, then you're out of luck here I'm afraid.

About DOSBox: It isn't all that hard to configure. The most important thing is to read the DOSBox "walkthrough":

http://www.abandonia.com/forum/index...howtopic=14913

and be patient about it. You will get the hang of it, and if there are problems, search our forums and then ask for help if you still need it.

Bom, eu corri o game.exe com o dosbox, mas continua-me a pedir por CD no drive!
Configurei como está num post na pag. 4.

Alguém sabe a solução?

I already configured it like in the link you gave me, but it stills asks for CD!
Do you know how to solve this?
Thanks

well.. can you please give us list of commands you used, your pc specs and version of dosbox? its not that easy to hack in to your computer and watch for what have you done

My PC is a Pentium IV, 3Ghz, 512MB RAM, 115GB Disk Space...

The rest, I did exactly like in the tutorial, except, of course, the part to "install and run" the Constructor game. I even used the same paths and directory names, just to be easier.

DOSBox is 0.70.

Windows XP Home by the way! Forgot to mention it.

Hi all. I just saw this game and spoted that IT IS street wars prequel. Does somebody know where to get that ? I REALLY loved Streed wars : Construction Underworld....

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Jul 26 2007, 07:22 PM) [snapback]301477[/snapback]</div>Try to mount the game's directory itself as a fake CD-ROM drive (MOUNT it with a -t cdrom switch)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Jul 26 2007, 07:21 PM) [snapback]301475[/snapback]</div>tutorial is tutorial, but you could still use different directories to mount the drive

hello

would someone please tell how to change my dos-box from windowed mode to fullscreen

i'm playing at the moment in a tiny window on my huge monitor and it's hard to see the details...

i have the latest dos box version and use windows XP home edition...

i just installed dos box and mounted the game... it works perfect... i have sound and everything... it only lags at one moment when i upgrade for the first time the rooms, after that it's perfect :D

so.. how to change to fullscreen??

thanks for the reply

To toggle between full screen and window mode, press Alt + Enter

now how stupid am i not to notice it????? :/

it works

thanks for the fast reply :)

Well I'm able to play the game on my laptop. It's weird, because in the other, I did the same thing and didn't work. Anyway, thanks for help!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hoverowski @ Jul 19 2007, 05:33 PM) [snapback]300222[/snapback]</div>
Mhm... can't you just destroy the computers mock tudor houses? I mean just take over his "mock Tudor" houses and then destroy them. Now you should be able to build more than 3 because there is a maximum number of houses that can be build of one type!
greetz Its0nlyFun
[/b][/quote]

That did the trick. Thanks! :)
[/b][/quote]


And the next mission??? The 5 houses of 3 plants???

I don't know the solution.

What is necessary to do?? Complements??

Hi!

I've downloaded the .iso version of this game, and got it working when i replaced the existing game.exe with the one from Abandonia-version. I run the game trough VDM Sound with the NOFLB.com / Game.exe .bat file. It seems to work great except for the lack of sound :S. When i run setsound in regular windows mode it works perfect and is able to play the test sounds etc. But when i run setsound through VDM there's no sound att all.
What am i doing wrong?

I've attempted the advice given in page 3 of this thread but am unable to get rid of the lag.

This was one of my favorites as a young one, i longed for this game, but only got it a few years after it was released, still awesome game though :)

It is a great game, but these is a bug in this archive. When I finish first level by earning 1000000 dollars the game crashes and I get the message like this: "Couldnt find a video file..." Please, help me solving this problem.

Turn off the videos... this has been discussed a dozen times already, dammit!

iv downloaded constructor but it doesnt seem to work i click on the game and a black screen comes up then it says sum stuff then just closes again but the game doesnt start or anything. can someone help me please as iv been looking for this game for agessss. thanks. :sos:

iv got it workin on xp!!!!!!!!!

you just download "dosbox" then drag and drop constructor "game" file onto the dosbox file itself (open the dosbox progrom folder and drag and drop constructor game file on the dosbox main file and it will automatically open up dosbox and run fine :ok: ) it works perfectly no lagging or sound problem and the graphics are A1. i love this game hope my dodgy info helped some troubled souls out there for this wikid game. :w00t:

lost movie file... cannot play
*meep* that

i also keep geting lost movie file error,

and theres no where on this forum somebody actually explains where to get theis file so we all can play this game propley,

if i come accross how to resolve this il post it up.

ITS ANNOYING :titan: :wallbash:

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(NAV @ Sep 4 2007, 11:18 PM) [snapback]308874[/snapback]</div>The movie file is on the original CDROM only. Back in 1997 that's how game companies distributed stuff for copyright protection. The download would get just too big with the movie file.
Can anyone help me with houses that are flooding. I tried maintenance men and upgrades but I can't stop the flood.

Hi @ all

I´ve downloaded this great game from this great site, but it does´nt run very well. Everytime I click any building I get kicked out with: "Error = Unable to spool file .\flics\HSEHOMEB.FLC" in the dos-screen.

What the ....?

Are there any solutions for this? :sos:

Hey, I still have my original CD but cannot get it to play. Whats the easiest way of getting it to work on XP?

DOSBox.

Umm, ok. I have downloaded DOSbox and have installed Constructor to my C:. When I am in DOSbox and try to load the GAME.EXE file from either C: or off the CD in D: it says CD is not in drive.

if you want to use cd, you need to mount your cdrom as well.
mount [virtual_drive_letter] [real_drive_patch] -t cdrom

by the way, if you have the full cd version you could host us an image=P

post an image of what?

I have mounted both drives and installed through dos box. If I load from the CD or the HDD I still get the message Error = Constructor CD must be in drive.

image of the game. use wikipedia to find out what a cd image is

I tried to do what a unregistered person said at May 12 2007, 01:53 PM
and it really works!!!!!! thanks for that!! i tried it for hours to play the game and with that unregistered person i get it to work! if someone has a question, perhaps i can help someone with my experiences! e-mail: [BEEEP]@hotmail.de

Just read the above post and I agree. This way really works!! So unbelieveably happy now!!!!

I cant make it work :(
Im useing windows XP, is it some other way to make it work ? :cry: remember i played this..:D

DOSBox.

for those of u havin troubles with getting the game on you just get dos-box and drag the game on to dos-boz icon let go and it runs instantly :ok:

when i mount cd drve and then from the c: drive it says unabe to locate system.ini file, could anyone help

movie disable
 

in order to solve the

Error = Unable to find moviefile


what should be done?

how can i disable the movies?

in game options

Network
 

I've found myself addicted to this game but yea, I've gone through the whole game now. :love: :(

Thought it would be fun to play against another hume instead of the com all
the time, but no way to enable network play? :wondering:

Hey all, I dunno if anyone has answered this already, i was gona look thru all 300 or so posts but 99% of them were about getting the game to work. So my question is, I know how to put trees etc. into yards.... but how do u take them out again if they complain about them?
Thanx :)

It's been a while since I played but from what I remember...

Under the map/TV monitor on your screen, there should be an icon for gadgets. I think it's shaped like a christmas tree, though that might be the factory production screen.
Once you've figured out which button to use, click on it to send out a delivery man to place the object.
(Pro tip: Put a subway station on each estate, and put one right outside the entry to your gadget factory to speed up delivery.)

Some gadets, like PCs and Burglar alarms must be put inside houses. You can either direct tenants to go collect them or, from the gadget factory screen, you can have them delivered to your tenants.

To remove gadgets, send a foreman to demolish them.

For the benefit of (near) future readers, here's the two bits of advice which helped me out.

I ran it with Dosbox (My version is 0.69, I don't know if it's been updated) and I ran it on my Windows XP machine.

I don't consider myself any kind of computer wiz, so this should be in the reach of a casual user.

So, thanks to those two guys!

Even with this, the game crashed when it tried to play the "winning" movie, but from that I remember, it wasn't that interesting anyway.

Thanks to the Abandonia folks for having this game around. I've got 3 copies of the game sitting around somewhere (Original shortly after it was released, Bargin Bin Windows 95 version and a PSX version I got as a gift) but I just couldn't get the Win95 version to work on my PC.

It has. The latest is 0.73, and the one I'm using right now is 0.72. Much faster than 0.6x.

Error = Unable to find movie file
 

I've got a problem. I'm using dosbox 0,72 and it works well. But sudenly I see message:

Error = Unable to find movie file

In game settings there is an option:
display all videos animations. I changed value to "no", but it didn't help.

Could you hepl me? please.

Since you're in the game and fiddling with the options, I assume it's starting up okay and running alright.

Basically, to keep the bandwidth demands down the Opening Sequence, Lose Movie and Win Movie have been cut from the game. You're probably seeing those messages when you either win the game (Based on the win conditions you chose at the start) or you lose.

(You can lose by accumulating 100 black marks by failing to address tenant complaints, failing to complete special council missions or from having your homebase destroyed by gangsters.)

The game would have ended itself if the win or lose movie played, so you're not missing out on gamplay either way.

I think you can find all three movies (intro, win, lose) on YouTube, if you're desperate to see them.

Constructor AVIs
 

The videos that show at the start of Constructor, when you lose or when you win.
These were located in a folder called WINDATA in the Constructor game folder (when installed from CD) and on the CD.

CONINTRO.AVI
CONLOSE.AVI
CONWIN.AVI


Constructor AVIs

Video Animations
 

DATA.FIL file located in FLICS folder on CD and in Constructor game folder when installed from CD.
Extract FLICS folder to Constructor game folder, default:
C:/ACCLAIM/CN
Contains all the video animations. Includes intro, win and lose videos within DATA.FIL.
You can now select Display All Video Animations : YES

CONSTRUCTOR FLICS DATA.FIL

Hi guys I just downloaded the constructor zip file and the dosbox 0.72 and when put the file game.exe appears the following message:

error: unable to create a config file directory

What I need to do?

i have this game on PS1, its graphics are bright like all pc-play station converted games of that time and it is near impossible to play as you quickly run out of money, i hope the pc version is better

I've just been recently playing around with this game... There are a few "must do" things before you can go to the next level, but all in all, the game is pretty intuitive (P.S.: be sure to indicate if "unplayable" refers to gameplay or tech issues! ;) ).

Actually, I find this like many of the "Sim" games from Maxis. Doesn't have a huge learning curve but for the things needed to make "next level" items, like tennants, etc. In fact, I find it has the hallmark of most games that I admire/enjoy; that it frustrates you just enough to make you want to keep going =P

I've run into a couple of bugs though: One is that at the point where you seem to fail hard enough to lose, it tries to start an animation that makes the game crash back to DOSBox, and second, the factory that makes things like trees, computers, double glazing... doesn't seem to want to deliver, even though it appears that it should.

Edit: Ok, I found how to get the double glazing (and other gadgets) installed for the tennants... Apparently, you can get them to pick it up themselves! Click on the house that needs the gadget, select the gadget screen, select the gaget to be installed and hit the "sell" button... the tenant wil go to the gadget factory and pick it up.

constructor
 

Hi all!
Can anybody help me?
I am just playing this game,without "enemy" just build and build,and i have a mission: You have developed several stunning properties and have earned a reputation as the best building corporation in town.Therefore you now must complete a luxury development of three level 5 houses which occupy all of an estate .each are must have top of the range rooms with asbours and garden furniture.
I tired it,but i always die!I tried build thee house level 5 on the same estate,after each one different state,i put 2 asbours in all garden with garden furniture,and i upgraded all rooms to the best level,but i allways die!
What should i do?what is my mistake?
Please somebody help me!
Thanks

The links are dead :o

when i will start the game there comes only
ERROR = UNABLE TO SET BANKED GAPHICS MODE

what can i do???

Y remeber having this game,but y think y errased :oh: and y cant remeber why.....:(

Solution for "Unable to spool file"
 

I know this is kinda old. But i loved this game so i've been trying to play in on windows XP. (What an headache to make it work >.<!! )

I used dosbox and started playing. But everytime i do something, an error comes up something like "Unable to spool file ..."

A few hours ago i found the solution in a brazilian forum here: http://www.600ml.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11941

Just needed to download those two files :
Parte1 - http://www.mediafire.com/?ditfyw0u0fd
Parte2 - http://www.mediafire.com/?bzgoxyyxczn

Unzip them and then add them to the FLICS file in the Constructor File. Works Perfectly.

Hope it helps

the reason you got the error message is that this game is a rip and it tries to look for video animations. most of people just disabled the video animations, but having them in here is nice as well, if the size weren't this big we could put it on the main site

Help?
 

I need help with DOSbox my computer alwas does a > when I try to type a :

How do I change it?
Have try but it Don't works for me:(..

You probably need to switch it to a different keyboard layout or remap the inputs using its built-in remapper.

I would say Ö (Shift+ö), but when you came as far as when you need a colon, then you have your backslash at the right key, so your keyboard can't be German.

or you can simply open dosbox.conf in notepad, and add the command "keyb gr" at the end then your keyboard is switched to german

Guys, hello.
Well,
I m an italian boy, and I hope you will help me because on italian s forum there s nothing about it. I wrote also on a Russian forum after this, but nobody could help me.
I saw in this topic that so many players had my problem with construcotor.

I start the game with Dosbox, and I play it.
Now the game works, but when I click on a home or on the QG apperas me this error : constructor unable to spool file .\flics\hsehomeb.flc
I saw you upload some files that are not online.
Well, In italy it s the 3 00 am, and I m desperate, I hope you will help me.
Please, please, please.
Make it for pizza and spaghetti, su su.
Sorry for the apostrof, but after I used dosbox i change my keybord from the italian to the english one, and now I m not able to retrive it XD

Ciao e grazie.

ehi,
nobody remember how play this game?

yo
 

LOVE constructor, i grew up playin this game constantly! Downloaded ok, unzipped ok, but everytime i open game.exe it loads through the dos box and then goes back to windows like nothin happened? anyone shed any light on this for me?

How to solve the problem with "spool files" in the constructor game
 

2 DeathRockBoy and others

If you have any problems with the *.flc (video) files, you should just start the game, go to the Settings menu, and TURN OFF the "Display All Video Animations" option.

OR you can seek for the video files on the internet, they've got a size of ~150mb.

For all the people having trouble, this is how I got it to work:
 

Okay, I have had ALL of the issues with running the game mentioned on pages 1 through 25 or so. (I grew tired of reading mass "HALP! I CAN HAZ CONSTRAXTOR IN XP??!!" posts, so skipped the last pages)...

...but this is how I got it to work:

First of all, I have a pentium 4 2.4GHz with 1.5GB RAM, and some sort of semi-decent graphics card from 2001 or so. And I run Windows XP.

Second, I _USED_ to run win98 SE back in the day, so I still have my product key and backup of the disc.

I know my way around in DOSbox, but this game would either get choppy sound when I increased the CPU cycles too much, or it would lag terribly or hang completely when placing buildings over large areas when I decreased the CPU cycles to where the sound would be acceptable (but still choppy).

I simply downloaded the microsoft virtual machine trial (google it) and set up a win98 virtual, then installed from my CD backup. Shared my oldgames folder on the network, and made sure the virtual machine was in the same workgroup.

Now, I could access constructor in my virtual machine window, and simply double-click "game.exe" to run the game without lag, and with perfect sound!

The game still crashed the first time I tried, but setting "display all video animations" to "no" in the game options seems to have resolved this completely, as I have now built my brick yard, and still haven't had problems.

--- See below for gameplay hints that I remember from playing before ---

Gameplay hints
 

Okay, so you're having gameplay trouble? Read on.

Starting out, it's good to disable the computer opponent, so that you can learn the build order, and how to get around to do stuff in the game. This will disable some missions, like the "get rid of troublesome tenant at blablabla estate". (That can be resolved by having a foreman take over his house, BUT! That will lead to enemy foremen constantly bugging you trying to return the favour.)

Now, to start out, you just build the wood yard, as close as possible to your HQ. It can be good to add a little extra space inside the fences to put a dog house there later. (Dogs chase away enemy foremen trying to take over your factory). You will have two foremen, each with 3 workers assigned to him. To assign the two additional workers you have, select one of the foremen, and add the workers with no "[ ]" on them, then select the "reunite team" button.

When the wood yard is completed, build one house of each kind available to you, but leave space for the cement yard on that same estate. (This will save you time when the three residents on that estate starts complaining about noise; you just move the team in one factory to the other factory, which leads to a short, but adequate pause in the noise).

Rent the houses to the "wife abuser" couples (these pay less, but make kids faster). Have one couple producing lvl 1 tenants, and the other two produce workers. If you feel it's taking too long, upgrade their bedrooms.

When your cement yard is complete, immediately buy another estate (preferrably close to your starting one), and build one of each new house. Don't bother with giving them any space, because you'll sell them as soon as you have your brick yard. When the brick yard is available, build it on the same estate, and sell the lvl 2 houses. You only got the brick yard to gain access to building a school anyway.

When you have the school (on that same estate), use ALL of the remaining space there to build a final lvl 1 house. That should make for a pretty huge garden for that house. Fully upgrade the bedroom, and have that lvl 1 couple start producing lvl 2 tenants. You'll need a lot of them. If you lack funds, then build lvl 2 houses and sell them right away. They'll get blown up anyway, so you don't loose estate space.

When you have messed around a little in the game (built a gadget factory, and got your residents set up with trees and other stuff they might demand), buy a large piece of land. This will be your milk cow for the rest of the game. Set it up as follows:

One BIG lvl 2 house in the middle, with TWO of the smaller lvl 2 houses on each side. In the middle one, place a "hippie" couple. In all of the other four, place punks. Give the hippies a hedge (they'll demand one pretty fast if you don't) and the punks their white picket fences. Have the hippies make police cadets, or have them make lvl 3 tenants for later use. The punks should ALL be set to pay rent.

This will very soon lead to the punks growing angry with the hippies hedge. They'll demand drastically lowered rates, or else they'll give you 100 black marks (bad). However, solving this situation will reward you with 20 white marks (good), and multiply that with four punk couples, that's 80 white marks... each month or so! 100 white marks can be cashed in for 10 000$.

So now, all you have to do is: When the punks complain, go to their house (you can do that from the complaint letter) and switch them to making a kid instead of paying rent. They'll stop complaining, so now you can switch them right back to paying rent, which will lead to another complaint next month. Rinse and repeat with all of them, and you'll be set with money for the rest of the game. Black marks aren't a problem either, since white marks will cancel them.

-----

That's how far I've gotten yet. A few tips:
- Police cadets can be set to patrol enemy territory. Right outside an enemy pawn shop, for instance. (Solves the enemy thief mission).
- Some gadgets in the gadget factory requires you to upgrade your wood/cement/brick/etc yards to factories.
- Some gadgets can be collected by the tenants themselves (double glasses, alarms, etc) which saves time for your delivery guy, of which you'll only ever have ONE.
- You can set up more than one hippie/punk estates if you like to keep busy, and could use a lot of cash
- Don't buy ANYTHING to tenants unless they require it in written form. I once bought a garden gnome to one of four tenants in a lvl 4 tenant estate, and INSTANTLY got four complaints. Three couples wondered why their neighbour had gotten something THEY didn't get, and the last one wanted that ugly gnome removed...
- When the park mission arrives, make SURE you manufacture the pond and the trees right away, but before placing them, make SURE to put a subway entrance right on the entrance to the park FIRST. This will save a lot of time for the delivery dude.
- Make sure to have around 4-6 of each lvl tenant in your HQ at all times. Not more than that, since it will lead to overcrowding missions, but preferrably not less, because tenants die from time to time, and if you can't refill their houses, they'll get infested.
- Repair guys will NOT repair non-residental buildings when set to auto-repair. You have to turn it off, and manually order them to the building that needs repair.
- Gangsters gain new weapons from killing stuff. Build a hospital to heal them up faster, and watch over them. If they kill a building, make sure to get them out of there before the building blows up, else they die in the explosion.

Hope I helped :)

Plz provide me with files!
 

I use DosBox 0.72 to run Constructor, turn off "Display All Video" option and the game works pretty good.
However, some times Constructor crashes and shows this annoying message:

Error = Unable to find movie file

I know that the reason is some files in FLIC folder are missing. I've read this topic, and found some links to download them but unluckily, links were dead.
Please show me how to find those files on the Internet.

Thank you.

Show how to find files on the internet? :mhh:

Google?

Yes. Having those files in FLIC folder, the error will go. :-)

finally there is a solution for the missing flics file...
refer to page 39...
thanks...

THANKS!
 

THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Now I can enjoy this game 100% fully.
It was annoying when it crashed - "Did I win...? Did I lose?!"

Now it works perfectly! :)

Found an MSI installer with all the animations included
 

So I have on my hard drive (found via torrents) an MSI version of the full game released by Classic Gaming. If interested I can put it on a rapid share or something. [BEEEP]@gmail.com

"Classic Gaming" is nothing but one big scam. I wouldn't trust ANY software from them.

I'm not one to disagree, from what I can tell, all it really does is install dosbox, and the game, then starts the game with a dosbox script. The one bonus is it DOES have all the animations

If you were registered on the forum, you'd know we have a copy of Constructor in the "ISO Cellar"...

lvl 2 tenants
 

I can't put lvl 2 tenants or higher in the houses :S I've already built everything, bought all the items, upgraded all the rooms, and lvl 2 tenants still appear as gray :S

Hello,

since yesterday I'm playing constructor, it's a funny game :)
But i've ran into a problem: in a house is the fence broken by an enemy, so i've sent a worker party with a foreman to it and construct a new fence. But they never start! The whole time on 0% construction. Is this a bug or what I'm doing wrong? Usually it works...

hey
 

anyone know how to assign f1, f2, etc. to a workgroup in the game ??

Does any one know were can i get this game download because i bought it and borrowed it for a friend never got it back my email is [EDITED]

On the game page, the link you posted, the Buy It button will take you to GoG to buy the game. Here is the direct link just in case http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/constructor .

We do not host games that are being sold or protected and we do not help people get the games that we don't host.

constructor
 

where i can download flics file in constructor ???????

The game is sold. If you want it - or any media content it contained, such as the video files - you have to buy it.

filcs
 

no ! i can get free. you must download contructor.ISO in google and copy folder flics and folder windata from constructor.iso . So you can
[FLAGS]
AlwaysShowFlic=Yes

CDFlics=Yes

flics
 

download here

[LINK REMOVED]

thaks

by

[EDITED]

Achievement unlocked: broke the forum rules. Would you like an IP ban with that?
:rules:
The rules are there for a reason - and part of it is to protect the site from being shut down. Abandonia is not a warez site. Downloads of any games that are still sold are warez. Do the math before I hit you with a brick.

flics
 

hmmmm
up to you
So i'm sorry.....
But i just want to download flics.....
Okey Not link

No Fence building
 

That happens to me as well on occassion but this is the only trace I could find of it happening to anyone else on the internet! Sometimes it is because there is something on it's way to the house (normally a psycho) and they won't build until he has been and gone. Sadly though it sometime has no clear reason and the only thing you can do is sell the house. This is a real pain, espcially in the sort of mid-game stages when all the estates are full and you can't just rebuild. So I say glitch / bug with no clear fix.

And to set the function keys to groups, select who you want in your group, hold CTRL and push the key. If you are using DOSBOX you'll need to change the key map, infact if you want to make life a little easier you can remap the function keys to CTRL and the key to save holding CTRL and then remap the normal numbers to the function keys so you can use F1 to assign a group and 1 to select it ;) I'd also move the arrows to ASDW and some other keys around to make life even easier (every little helps in this game!)

Constructor Gameplay
 

Hey all, if any of you are unsure about what type of game Constructor is, or you are thinking of buying it, but want to see more gameplay footage, head on over to youtube and search for madmatt667 - I have a few dos games that I record, so please take a look.
Most games are recorded using dosbox and other capture software - my Constructor ones work fine in Windows XP

Thanks

madmatt667

You have to click on the house and fix it manually . This will cost you money but its the only way to fix the house . Get police on the estate .

Hi! I have the same problem as stated above, but nobody seems to have paid attention to this question. How do you complete this mission? I built three level five houses, each filling an entire state, renovated the rooms to the max and put an arbour and garden furniture in each garden, but nada, nothing. I'm playing the version that's downloadable from psn on my ps3. It is ported and has a few glitches, it might be that, but hope it's not a game breaking one. Anyone know a way to finish it or perhaps go around it?

Where can I get it????
 

Gog have stopped doing it or it's been removed for some reason....

I've searched everywhere for this game, I loved playing it back in the day and really want to renew my passion for it lol

Any pointers apart from ebay etc...

Download would be best and yes i'm happy to pay.

If there's anyone out there still playing this and interested in playing some multiplayer, come on hamachi network gogconstructor password 123

I can't believe I can help with that, as he could have discovered the answer months ago, but as how I got problems with the Park mission, I'll help.

I was playing it once and I got there. You have to place 3 houses (or as many it asks) for level 5 tenants (the level is the tenants level) and do what the mission says, be sure to get a big space to it as you'll need it for the outside furniture. Remember to put them INSIDE THE HOUSE! They must be living there. And take a look if it's not asking for a specific space, like the Park mission. For me it worked, some minutes later I got squashed by the computer AI, but I think I forgot to protect some things...

Constructor's back on GOG, after two years of being removed. It is no longer abandonware.
https://www.gog.com/game/constructor