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[PrejudiceSucks]

Nah, they're really expensive...

kix, thank you for your reply.
It almoust worked.
But still I can't start the game.
I type IDMAS and the screen becomes black, sometimes there are some coloured lines.

In the setup I use no sound cards and I have Windows XP.
Do you all here use Win XP?

I tried quite everything.
I can't wait to play the old Motorcity!

[tinkles]

Stick to DoSBOX. And run that sucker in a full window...fiddle with the sound setup options until it works with something (AWE 32, Adlib, Soundblaser, etc.)

Finally figured out that Unskilled workers can be used with the New Assmebly line Production option after I think 1911.

In high-output factories, assmebly line production was basically the move out of 5 guys putting a car togther surrounded by parts. If you have vehicles that you're selling alot of (more than 100/month) I'd pay the price and convert.

Thank you tinkles.
Your advice didn't work but I switched to a second Win XP computer and now it runs!

If I remember my old strategies I'll post them here.
In any case, I think you wrote a pretty interesting starting guide...

Thank you, bye.

Hello after a long long time I´ve played Oldtimer again and found myself with the same questions I´ve had nearly a decade before:
- How does advertising work?
I suppose that Newspapers are for cheap (ca.2000$) and exhibitions for expensive cars but I´ve never noticed any significant chancge in sales after changing the amount or distribution of money spent for ads.
How much should you spend (amount and %) ?

- Does anyone "find" new engines after ca. 1912?
The biggest one I´ve found is a 6 cyl 48 PS and if I read the save file correctly
that is the biggest one in the whole game?!
- Can you mix for example a small engine with a medium chassis?

P.S. Unskilled Workers are a substitute for the skilled workers after you´ve installed the Assembly Line in ca. 1910.

I wonder since my early childhood (my brother gave it (in German) to me when I was 8 and I played it for hours on my good ole 486DX, but never got too far (the best I ever had was I think 1905, after that I went bankrupt because my production halls where too far away from the halls with the parts in them (I didn't even know that that plays a role) and suddenly wheren't supplied any more) what the subtitle means... in German, it reads "Erlebte Geschichte Teil II", so I wonder if there ever was a first part of the series.
PS:I'm from Germany, sorry for bad English

[d300mhz]

Help!

It's 1922, and I can't develope an engine with horsepower greater than 48. None of my car's are selling anymore, and I believe it's because they don't have enough power. I've tried every combination of engine research possible, and even tried to order someone else's engines but to no avail.

If you can help me out, I'll owe you one!

Thanks.

To d300mhz

There´s a bug in the game not allowing you to develop or order any engine above the 6 cyl 48 hp engine available in 1903.
If you are capable of german language - there´s a german version called "Oldtimer" somewhere in the net without the bug.

[d300mhz]

Originally posted by Guest@Oct 10 2005, 10:17 AM
To d300mhz

There´s a bug in the game not allowing you to develop or order any engine above the 6 cyl 48 hp engine available in 1903.
If you are capable of german language - there´s a german version called "Oldtimer" somewhere in the net without the bug.

Thanks guest!

Look's like I'll have to learn German. It's too bad that one little bug prettty much ruin's an otherwise amazing game.

[laiocfar]

There´s a bug in the game not allowing you to develop or order any engine above the 6 cyl 48 hp engine available in 1903.
If you are capable of german language - there´s a german version called "Oldtimer" somewhere in the net without the bug.

I KNOW IT :ranting: ....well, i didn´t knowing but i was only changing the body and chasis but always the same motors, thanks to spread the word and these somewhere in the net are cofcofunderdogscof LOL