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[Lafayette]

Actually, I still have the original game. Its on 5 floppy disks.

But.
The game works, but without sound and the resolution is horrible on my 19 inch screen.

I tried to change the competability and also changed it to lower resolutions and at 256 colors. It remained so unsharp...

Can it be run in a windowed version?

Heheh I even have the manual. When you want to play it ask for a word in the manual by giving a page, a line and word number.

Anyone have a clue?

Thx.

k: they don't make games like they used to. Despite the bugs and command difficulty, the game is still great

if you are having trouble playing the game make sure you have dos-box and you install it using the dos-box. You should be able to extract the sound if you do this.

Make sure that you put the FOG folder in the C: drive, then in dos box you have yo 'mount c c:\fog' then 'install'.

Thanks abandonware for having Fields of Glory availiable for dl, can't get it to work on windows 95 anymore, too hard to install.

Hi,

I tried King Doms step-by-step manual, but my pc installs only 3 files with less than 35 kb.
Have anyone a idea, how i can play FOG?


Thanks
Digit

this game made me cry. it really did. It had so much potential. I bought it when it first came out and was so very very pleased that it had been made.... then I played it! worked with experts?!! I think not!!! Cavalry defeating infantry in square, column defeating line without difficulty, cannon defeating cavalry in hand-to-hand! I dont know what the game mechanics are regarding combat but it seems to be fairly random. for any strategy that you may come up with, it would be equally as effective to just charge all your me forward.

I cried big manly tears of sorrow that day.

(it's okay, I had a big manly handkercheif)

[laiocfar]

Remember that each unit also got other ways to defeat that got the right formation. If most of the husars died when charging the cannon, they can be repelled in hand to hand combat. + Square formation its to deal very special situations like a breaked line. I dont know how works the game´s engine but i use the colum to march, the line to fight and the square to "special" situations. :bleh:

I did follow King DOm's instructions, and for a change the install did complete! Still though, when I ran 'fog.bat' it answers
"Runtime error 200 at 1066:OF77.
Trouble starting up sound code."
So I get to the main game menu, without intro or sound, I get to choose battle, choose side then the whole thing freezes.

[laiocfar]

Try by using dosbox.

[DSmidgy]

Square formation is for defending againt cavalary.

Similat game to FoG is Asterlitz: Napoleon's greatest Victory and Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Battle. They are derivate of Sid Meier's Gettysburg.

Originally posted by laiocfar@May 18 2006, 03:22 AM
Try by using dosbox.

I'm not that stupid. I said I followed his instructions step b step..
It's a pain in the back with Win XP anyway, why is that that the install program doesn't recognize the settings in the 'config.sys'? I did change what it asked for, but it's still marked red in the installation menu. And it finds only 919 K memory, please, it's a P4..

[laiocfar]

Square formation is for defending againt cavalary.

If you say it... Anyway if i get directly assaulted by cavalry i dont will break my army´s formation to change all the inf from lines to squares. I use square when cav breaks in my sides or back and always that separete units goes ambushed.