Old games from Avalon Hill

[Agathosdaimon]

thanks for that info - i just got Orion Pirates and tried it out yesterday without the mod and it seemed to be working better than SFC2, i have added the mod now and your instructions so hopefully that fixes the problem i was getting with the UI in the game being too small for the screen and stuck in the top left corner.

I incidentally as i like to be a purist on some old games, found a 20 boxed copy of Orion Pirates too so i will have a legit copy at hand also for my collecion

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[Red2112]

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Scotty, reverse warp factor 9.6!!!

I Imagen you are all familiar with "Stage 9" Project...
http://stage-9.co.uk/

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[Agathosdaimon]

ORIGINAL: Red2112

Orion Pirates is a game on it´s own, that I now of. I worked just fine on my Windows 10x64bit with the mentioned mod and tweaking. You can get Orion Pirates at Old-Games, that´s where I got mine.

okay well it seems the mod is not ideal - i installed it like you said and now Orion Pirates is just a black screen - it briefly says loading but then it just goes black and nothing happens

[Red2112]

Hmm, strange it worked for me. Or maybe I missed something, do check the HD mod thread just in case. Did you tweak the sc2.ini file as I wrote?

Some of the games in Old-Games are not workable on W10 right of the bat (unless it says so), so you do need to find solutions on your own. I think SFC2 was one of them. GOG has the first SFC Gold but that too seems to have some issues with W10, and/or it just plain looks awful in the graphics dept.!

[Red2112]

This is how your root file should look...



EXE Icon...



SCFOP .ini file tweaks...





Works just fine for me...



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[Red2112]

You might need to install the "SFCOP 2500-2563" patch. If you don´t have it let me know...

[Agathosdaimon]

thanks i am starting from scratch again , i did everything you said but no go- something odd with that SFCOP 2500-2563 patch was that after install it removed the uninstall files for the game so i was actually unable to uninstall it

[DerJager]

Man, you fellows are old! I haven't seen references to this kind of stuff for a long time, er, I mean, I haven't read about this in any history books recently. Not that I would know anything about it all first hand. I mean, I am far too young for that of course.

Cool picture of the Doomsday Machine, or whatever that might have been called. If I'm right, it's just a lucky guess. I remember perfecting my tactics to destroy that thing in the original SFB board game.

What I mean to say is that I read how it could be done somewhere, and no I don't remember where.

Just sayin'....

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[DerJager]

Yes, Federation ships of the stated classes. Phased movement that was pre-plotted, plasma and photon torpedoes, various classes of phasers, disrupters, and suicide shuttles. SFB was a great game. It was actually such a good game that it suffered a similar fate to another great game, Squad Leader. Both were developed far too far, adding too many levels of complexity that utterly destroyed their playability.

[Agathosdaimon]

success with Starfleet Command 3 i might just add here - i installed it again and this time am running it through DXwnd and it runs beautifully in a windowed mode - maybe dxwnd might help me get SFC2 OP going properly again too

[Red2112]

ORIGINAL: Agathosdaimon

success with Starfleet Command 3 i might just add here - i installed it again and this time am running it through DXwnd and it runs beautifully in a windowed mode - maybe dxwnd might help me get SFC2 OP going properly again too

Glad to read that! In my case, I did not have to use DXwnd for SFCOP, actually I don´t even have DXwnd runining any more, just used it for Talonsoft´s BoB, but since having EGtBR, I don´t use BoB any more, so no need for DXwnd.

As for SFC-3, well as E stated, it´s not the same as SFC-1/OP, it´s a light version with eye-candy but hey alot of other games are like that! The most important is that you have FUN playing it! [:)]

[Agathosdaimon]

i like SFC 3 also - actually being that i am often terrible at trying to survive even just a 1 on 1 duel in the SFC games, if SFC 3 can be a little easier that is fine by me - i still find it a challenge. I played a duel with a romulan ship as the opponent and it was having a field day cloaking and reappearing behind me to blast my enterprise some more - so this i find plenty hard - but i do also like 1 and 2 and am glad i can find a way to make them work, dxwnd is working out quite well as a solution - it helped me to also get M1 Tank Platoon 2 up and working on windows 10, a feat otherwise impossible

[klhbekool]

I have SFC3 can't get it too work. I will try your suggestions. SFB just went way too far with the expansions. I still play Federation Space.

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[Red2112]

Well, we should be talking about old AH titles, so which AH title do you still have/play now days?

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[Red2112]

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[fritzjoel]

Kampfgruppe and Mech Brigade by SSI.