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[f105kid]

Originally Posted by the_fifth_horseman

Read the post above yours for that info.


What values did you enter in the sound configuration?

HELP! I love this game, have the board game and the DOS floppies and the manual, but gave up ever playing it on a Windows Box. Thanks to this thread, I now have DOSBox, but 1830 won't run. It asks me to configure SOUND. I don't know how to do that, and the tutorial and the wiki wern't any help.

Is there anyone who knows how to configure SOUND in DOSbox so that 1830 will run???

[f105kid]

Originally Posted by f105kid

HELP! I love this game, have the board game and the DOS floppies and the manual, but gave up ever playing it on a Windows Box. Thanks to this thread, I now have DOSBox, but 1830 won't run. It asks me to configure SOUND. I don't know how to do that, and the tutorial and the wiki wern't any help.

Is there anyone who knows how to configure SOUND in DOSbox so that 1830 will run???

More info: I am running DOXBox under XP, the error message is:

"Please run SOUND to configure 1830's sound."

I tried the dos command line:

SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T4

And when I ran 1830 again, I got the same error message.

HELP??

[dosraider]

In your games folder (WHILST IN DOSBOX) run
sound you'll get a menu
-> "configure sound hardware"
choices:

SB
220
SB
220
7
1

"quit to dos"
input 1830 to play.

[f105kid]

Many Thanks!!! I'm now a happy camper.

Originally Posted by dosraider

In your games folder (WHILST IN DOSBOX) run
sound you'll get a menu
-> "configure sound hardware"
choices:

SB
220
SB
220
7
1

"quit to dos"
input 1830 to play.

Ok When I Try to run Sound in DOSBOX, it doesn't work. It says sound.cfg is missing and to reinstall the game, but the file sound.cfg is there in the same folder. Is there another way to configure 1830's sound?

Hello, ... where i can find the passwords for the second password check?

First check e.g. Page 11 Line 5 Position 5 is okey, .. i can find .. but
Second check PAGE II LINE II Position 3 ..... i cant find!

Please help me!
thx

I still have the original floppys and manual for this game from 1995. The original was a board game produced in the UK , almost handcrafted. called 1829. This is a faithful software version, except for the shift to the USA. Avalon Hill bought the board game rights and produced their own version, then a PC version. This was extremely difficult to run on the PCs around in 1995 - it needed a state of the art machine and it used all of it - you had to boot with a special 1830 boot disk. Still a great game!

UK stave

Minor issue: on the higher difficulty levels, the AI players will act in a concerted effort against you. They don't care who of them will win, their sole concern is to stop you, the player. On the one hand, this is a little silly; on the other, it becomes necessary once you've learned the ins & outs of the game.

As to the Diesel Trains changing ownership and never moving (mentioned further up): that's a valid technique. Except under very certain circumstances, no company may ever be without a train. If the companies' funds won't suffice, the main shareholder has to put in some money out of his own pocket (selling stock for cash if necessary). If that still won't suffice, that character goes bankrupt and the game is over.
By constantly selling the same train from one of his companies to the other, the train will never move (and hence never generate revenue). However, in the meantime that character's other stock may rise in value and/or pay out some dividends, so that after some turns of idling he may finally purchase that second train. Maybe. Maybe not. At least he remains in the game, and where's live there's hope.

Finally....
The crack as offered on HOTU unpacks fine on Win98 systems, XP boxes will refuse to open it. Maybe if you get your hands on the old command-line pkunzip and try it in a DOS window (or under DosBox)... I didn't try this though.

Wether or not this game will run seems to be a matter of luck. I've had varying results on different OS'es and emulators and even on different machines running the same OS and emulator. It can be anything from a total no-go to flawless operation, perhaps the most annoying case was when the game ceaselessly kept prompting me for a password, and another, and another.

Either way, in my personal opinion, getting this game to work is worth any amount of hassle.

regards,
Schnobs

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perhaps the most annoying case was when the game ceaselessly kept prompting me for a password, and another, and another.
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This was alleviated for me by using the patch in post 30

[SothoTalKer]

If you really really want, you can get a small patch for this game on dlh.net:
http://dlh.net/cgi-bin/patdl.cgi?lang=eng&...ile=1830jul.zip

It only fixes a few bugs, but why not have the latest version anyway?

PS: What got fixed:

Fixed bug where using the C&SL special ability with a railroad
with no trains caused 2 leftward moves on the stock market.

Cosmetic glitch: the 10 town northeast of C&O base on
standard map should not be yellow! (This had no impact on play.)

The train buying AI is significantly faster now.[/b]

Just extract the files from the zip into your 1830 directory and overwrite the files.