Please say its less than 2gigs?

[wodin]

I have to download on my daughters net book then transfer it to my usb mem which holds two gigs so I can then play it on my gaming rig.

S0 less than 2gigs?

[Arjuna]

Yep...its a little less than 1Gb

[wodin]

Hurrah!!!

[MajFrankBurns]

How about "Will it work on a Netbook?" I just bought me one and Panzer Command Kharkov works on it so how's about BftB? Huh? What say you?

[wodin]

Its very CPU heavy this game....so I doubt you will be able to play the big scenarios....COTA's big scenarios can slowdown a little when Im upping the speed on my duo core 3.7 with 2 gig and a 4870 1gig card.

I use my daughters netbook for the internet only as they just aren't made for games.

[Arjuna]

MajFrankBurnes,

Don't know if it will run on a netwbook. We don'[t have one to test it on nor do we vouch that it will do so.

What's the screen size of a netbook. If it's at least 1024 x 768 and it can run Win XP or better then there is a good chane it will run. However, we make no promiss that it will. BFTB will run on my 7 year old dev machine which is now a very sad beast, spec wise. For me I find it unacceptably slow on this old machine, but it does run.

[MajFrankBurns]

You can adjust the screen size to 1024 x 768 but it's base size is 1024 x 600. It also came with XP installed.
 
I've gotten the following games to run on it already:
 
Combat Mission series
 
Take Command 2nd Manassas & Bull Run
 
Conquest: Medieval something by Slitherine
 
Civilization II Gold
 
Master of Magic
 
Master of Orion II
 
X-Com's both of them
 
Age of Rifles
 
Centurion Defender of Rome
 
95% of all the SSI games I have and rpg gold box series games
 
Panzer Command: Winter Storm & Kharkov (this one required 1024 x 768 also) Amazingly I can run these in High terrain and High Details with 8 anthroscopic filtering on. Hell I think it runs faster on my netbook than my I7 lol!
 
1830 Railroads & Robber Barrons
 
A ton of DOS games from the 80's to Win98 era. Games I can't get to run require a stupid cd disc to be installed and the netbook doesn't come with a cdrom because of its size. I do have an external hard drive I am transporting most games from my desktop to it though.
 
@Wodin the Netbook as it is runs LOTS of GAMES on it and runs them well too. It won't run graphics intensive games of course but I don't play them anyways. It runs every HPS and SHRAPNEL game I have and so far all of the Matrixgames I have thrown at it.
 
back at Arjuna I still have a very powerful desktop to play BftB even if it doesn't work on the Netbook. It would have been interesting to hear how it runs before I install it on it though. You really should test ALL avenues of gaming platforms for the computer you know? [:'(] Netbooks are becoming very popular for the young as they are cheap $200 and parents are more willing to shell out that kind of money for a computer for them than $500 plus on a laptop or desktop. This thing is perfect for work and easy to hide when someone pops in. I can close the lid and cover it up with a sheet of paper and you wouldn't even notice it was there if you didn't look hard for it. [:'(]
 
If anything I'd say the Netbook right now is great for retro DOS gaming and even some modern ones that aren't graphics intensive. Plus there's a new one on the horizon an 1.8xghz model and a better graphics card. Looking at most wargames and of course all DOS games the Netbook can easily become a great compact portable wargaming and strategy gaming machine.
 
Now to just find a way to get Medieval Total War to run without a cd disc. [&o]