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This problem with only the battlefield without characters, enemies & background I had earlier too when I played Star Trail on old Pentium 100 with Dos. The only solution I found for this was just to load the saved game before the fight and enter the fight again, then anything is there again. That seems just to be a bug in the game that happens sometimes.
Although this with the graphics glitch in DosBox, I don't have it whether I cast spells or something else during battles. Instead I have this glitch in the conversations, when I enter one the colors mess up and then anything is hardly visible. That said, I play the original bought German version of the game on CD, not the one from this site. I'll try your solution with the scaler, thanks for the tip

So after getting rid of the random-colors problem,
I think I found the solution for the scrambling of sprites during combat.

Search the package for a file named "fix.com"
Place it in the game directory, and run it.
That did the trick, at least for me....

So finally I can start off and play this great game!
:Brain:

Hey, I just discovered that fifth horsman actualy already told to use the fix.com in hit post on Dec 9 2005, 12:38 PM.

@Henrik: Perhaps it should be put in the RoA-ST game description that not only crack.com should be run but also fix.com?
Would save a lot of people quite some unneccessary frustrations, I guess.
THnx anyway, Abandonia, for providing this beauty.

[uk_john2005]

What amazes me, in these days of broadband, I do not understand why we do not have on games like this one the floppy version download (which is the one here) AND the CD version with speech. Yes, the latter would be a 200+mb download, but even on a 256k broadband that is managable. If you only have dialup the 11mb floppy is a sizable download in it's own right, so you'd be happy with that anyway.

I have the same problem with the original Jagged Alliance. Every site just has the floppy version for download with no speech, and yet the reviews of the same game (even on the same site!) they always talk about the great speech in the game in the review.

Abandonia, how about you being the first site that offers the floppy AND the CD version (where different) on games like Star Trail and Jagged Alliance?

[Sebatianos]

Originally posted by uk_john2005@Feb 8 2006, 09:11 PM
Yes, the latter would be a 200+mb download, but even on a 256k broadband that is managable.

Well there a little matter of server space and server cost. If we'd start putting up 200MB downloads the serves space would be filled up in an instant.

So the sizes of download are not to ensure you could download quickly, but to ensure we don't run out of space too soon. The general policy is - no updates bigger then 100MB and even those are extremely rare (anything bigger then 50MB should get special confirmation by the site's owner).

[uk_john2005]

That's a cop out. There are just not enough games like that out there, where the floppy version is there, but the CD one isn't. And the reason I said why not be the first, was because nearly all the games on this site are available elsewhere and links are available, so to say "we have the CD version of this, but due to server space there are some other games we might not have, but we are confident 100 other sites have it for download" would be an easy step. It would also be possible. I am sure. to take a few of the less downloaded games off for 6 months while the CD version was up, and then see how the server changes. Was the 200mb causing more problems than the lesser downloaded games were doing? Was it a big difference? The other point is I am guessing at 200mb. It might be under 100mb. Plenty of older CD games with speech are under 100mb, even while some are 300mb.

Underdogs makes big files available from them but through bitorrent. Some sites break down a big download in to smaller indivual downloads, a) to make it easier for people with slower connections, but also B) as it spreads the server workload.

And while I might be able to find Star Trail on ebay or somewhere, I have been looking for the original CD version of Jagged Alliance for 3 years now and ever since the release of Jagged Alliance 2, it has fallen off the face of the Earth!

I am much more interested when I hear "we tried that, but it didn't work", but in the world today I am getting a little fed up with "haven't tried it, but I am sure it wouldn't work".

Well, you could propose that to Kosta, he's the owner of the side eventhough he doesn't seem to do much here.

[Sebatianos]

Originally posted by uk_john2005@Feb 9 2006, 01:34 AM
That's a cop out. There are just not enough games like that out there, where the floppy version is there, but the CD one isn't. And the reason I said why not be the first, was because nearly all the games on this site are available elsewhere and links are available, so to say "we have the CD version of this, but due to server space there are some other games we might not have, but we are confident 100 other sites have it for download" would be an easy step.

:eeeeeh: :eeeeeh: :eeeeeh:

It's like telling one store - be the first to have this really expensive junk and get rid of everything else. If people come for other stuff you can send them to other stores, you'll still have that one big piece to sell to people who're interested.

Why on Earth should we take games down, just so we could have one or two large files??? Doesn't make sense.

If you simply want the full version - get it. We don't have it on the site and you obviously know many other sites (you even mentioned a few), so talk to them.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Heck, if you have broadband - install eMule and search for Star Trail in the Kademlia network.
Easy way to get large - and often also rare - stuff.

That's warez-talking.