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Old 01-03-2005, 10:25 AM   #111
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Just got the game, havent played it before, but since its Star Wars, im giving it a go. Couple things tho. Where the heck do you go for training? I dont mean that proving ground thing, i mean actual training. Also, why are the controls so slow? I can hardly move.
                       
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Old 13-03-2005, 05:42 AM   #112
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When I used Picards instructions for dosbox, I type in the 'mount c c:\dosprog' command, but then it comes up with a message 'Directory c:\dosprog doesn't exist'. What am I doing wrong?

By the way, I have the cd image mount in drive 'f:'.

I have 'local drive c:', and 'compact disks d:, e: and f:' in 'My Computer'... 'compact disk d:' is real, while 'compact disk e: and f: are fake (I think?? )
                       
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Old 14-03-2005, 09:27 AM   #113
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Originally posted by Guest@Mar 13 2005, 05:42 AM
When I used Picards instructions for dosbox, I type in the 'mount c c:\dosprog' command, but then it comes up with a message 'Directory c:\dosprog doesn't exist'. What am I doing wrong?

By the way, I have the cd image mount in drive 'f:'.

I have 'local drive c:', and 'compact disks d:, e: and f:' in 'My Computer'... 'compact disk d:' is real, while 'compact disk e: and f: are fake (I think?? )
It means, that the direcotry c:\dosbox not exist. On witch drive you have installed your game? i.e. if you installed xwing into d:\games\xwing, then you enter

mount c d:/games/xwing

That means, in dosbox you will go to drive c: (that in reality is d:\games\xwing), so you start the game with

c:\xwingcd



                       
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Old 19-03-2005, 06:44 AM   #114
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Originally posted by Meril+Mar 14 2005, 10:27 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Meril @ Mar 14 2005, 10:27 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Guest@Mar 13 2005, 05:42 AM
When I used Picards instructions for dosbox, I type in the 'mount c c:\dosprog' command, but then it comes up with a message 'Directory c:\dosprog doesn't exist'. What am I doing wrong?

By the way, I have the cd image mount in drive 'f:'.

I have 'local drive c:', and 'compact disks d:, e: and f:' in 'My Computer'... 'compact disk d:' is real, while 'compact disk e: and f: are fake (I think?? )
It means, that the direcotry c:\dosbox not exist. On witch drive you have installed your game? i.e. if you installed xwing into d:\games\xwing, then you enter

mount c d:/games/xwing

That means, in dosbox you will go to drive c: (that in reality is d:\games\xwing), so you start the game with

c:\xwingcd [/b][/quote]
This is wrong. He needs to mount the drive in dosbox before installing the game.

Create a folder called dosprog on your c drive. Then follow picards guide, it should work now.

I gotta say, though, that VDMsound is a lot simpler to use, and it works better too. Dosbox tends to slow some games down a bit too much for my pc. Just remember to enable mscdex in VDMsound, if you're gonna run x-wing, or it wont work.
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Old 23-03-2005, 05:04 AM   #115
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I have read all the posts and followed instructions. I have vdms, and i have put x wing onto a cd and then installed it on my hardrive

but even using vdms it still says x wing cd cannot be found

anyway know anything that might help

it would be much appreciated
                       
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Old 23-03-2005, 09:59 PM   #116
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Anyone know where I could find scans of the manual or reference cards for this game?
                       
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Old 27-03-2005, 09:07 AM   #117
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Originally posted by einherjar+Dec 28 2004, 02:05 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (einherjar @ Dec 28 2004, 02:05 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Eagle of Fire@Dec 27 2004, 03:47 AM
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The copy I had was 5 "floppy" disks (called hard disks back then),
Floppies never been called "hard disk". An HD is what is several gig big in your computer and allow you to stuff on it...

I never had that much problem completing any of X-Wing missions. God knows that I almost scrapped my mouse playing this game tough! :blink:
Are you sure? They were always called hard disks around here, and the harder disks were hard drives. The 5" (or so) disks were floppy disks. [/b][/quote]
Ok, To be a bit more Technical, The "hard Disk" your refering to is the 3.5 inch Floppy Disk, Commonly called Hard Disk back then, Do to the fact the the 5.25 inch was very plyable, and the 3.5 had a Hard case on it. It was not a industry term, but just a term many people people used to help associate one from the other. And I would of loved to see a "Hard Disk" Hard Drive, that carried Gigabytes of Information on it back then. Considering i was still using a 120 MB Hard Drive in those days.... Hope that clears everything up
                       
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Old 28-03-2005, 01:31 AM   #118
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This game I bought on floppies, also Imperial Pursuit and B-Wing add ons.

I finished all missions without cheating (other than the in-game resurrection thing). Now it this had not been a Star Wars themed game, I would never have finished it. Can't say I enjoyed the game that much though.

Example: in one mission you must escort a flight of Y-Wings attacking an Imperial frigate. It sucked. I had to order the Y-Wings to halt to prevent them from getting destroyed (they never use torpedoes). I killed all the Ties and then I SINGLEHANDEDLY took on the frigatem, bringing down its shields with my two puny lasers (A-Wing).

What a miserable excuse for a mission!

Never going to bother again with X-Wing. Tie-Fighter was MUCH better, more userfriendly. Even X-Wing Alliance was better than X-Wing. And what was the point of having veteran wingmen in X-Wing? They got killed as easily as the computer drones.

Okay, end of rant. Thank you.
                       
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Old 31-03-2005, 03:43 PM   #119
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I'm searching Code for X-Wing from 1992/93 (it's on 5 floppy disks), after install in the menu I have a message: Copy Protection, 3 marks in Dark katarn Font and text: See manual page 13 or 9 or else. What's the Code? I need to unlock this Game. zaxonspox@interia.pl
                       
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Old 04-04-2005, 08:38 PM   #120
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For people still having trouble installing this game or getting it to run...

You need..
The archive, and DOSBox 0.63. That's it.

unzip the archive to somewhere useful..
Like, c:\dosgames\xwingCD
This is going to be your pretend cd drive using DOSBox

Make an Xwing directory , such as c:\dosgames\Xwing
This is where the game will install to

start dosbox, type these commands...

imgmount d c:\dosgames\xwingcd\xwingce.bin -t iso

mount c c:\dosgames\xwing

now, change to d: in dos box, you should get..

D:>

type install, or install.exe
you will not see these using dir, don't panic.

If you are in dosbox and have mounted the C:\ drive as above, you can install to c:\ and

in reality it will go to C:\dosgames\xwing.

Should install

Running it:

Properties of my desktop shortcut, Target:

"C:\DOSBox\DOSBox-0.63\dosbox.exe c:\Dosgames\xwing\bwing.exe -conf XWing.conf"
Note, you can use xwingcd.bat instead of Bwing.exe and it will work as well.

What do to with .conf file
get out of DOSBox of course, explore to your DOSBox directory...
Copy the default .conf file and rename the copy XWING.conf

At the bottom of the conf.file , add the imgmount as illustrated below. Make sure you save it as "Xwing.conf" and not Xwing.conf.txt. Or just rename it after :P

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
imgmount d c:\dosgames\xwingcd\xwingce.bin -t iso

All you need to do now is click the shortcut.

Oh, and find a manual.
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