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Hi guys:

I downloaded the Age of Rifles from the Underdogs site, and everything unzipped fine.

Now I have to configure the sound for the game.

Here's the problem:

My Age of Rifles is in the following location on my hard drive:

c:\Age of Rifles\wgrifle\rifles

But, when I go to te MSDOS prompt I cannot get to that directory to configure the sound.

Here are the steps I go through at the DOS prompt in my feeble attempt to get to the directory that Age of Rifles is in:

1)C:>WINDOWS (what I see when I first activate the DOS window)

2) C:>WINDOWS cd\ (I enter cd to change to the root directory)

3)C:> (I am now at the root directory)

4)C:>cd\AgeofRifles\wgrifle\rifles (This is what I type next)

5)Invalid Directory ( This is the message I receive once I complete step #4).

What am I doing wrong? I'm not the greatest techie in the known world, but I didn't tink it was going to be so complicated. I have tried a number of different entries but nothing has worked.

I am sure that there is probably a step I am not doing, or doing it incorrectly. I would sure appreciate any help if you can. I am dying to play this game.

My system is Win'98, PII 350, SB Live!, Voodoo3 2000. Standard setup.

Thanks <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

Originally posted by Von Rom:
Hi guys:

I downloaded the Age of Rifles from the Underdogs site, and everything unzipped fine.

Now I have to configure the sound for the game.

Here's the problem:

My Age of Rifles is in the following location on my hard drive:

c:\Age of Rifles\wgrifle\rifles

But, when I go to te MSDOS prompt I cannot get to that directory to configure the sound.

Here are the steps I go through at the DOS prompt in my feeble attempt to get to the directory that Age of Rifles is in:

1)C:>WINDOWS (what I see when I first activate the DOS window)

2) C:>WINDOWS cd\ (I enter cd to change to the root directory)

3)C:> (I am now at the root directory)

4)C:>cd\AgeofRifles\wgrifle\rifles (This is what I type next)

5)Invalid Directory ( This is the message I receive once I complete step #4).

What am I doing wrong? I'm not the greatest techie in the known world, but I didn't tink it was going to be so complicated. I have tried a number of different entries but nothing has worked.

I am sure that there is probably a step I am not doing, or doing it incorrectly. I would sure appreciate any help if you can. I am dying to play this game.

My system is Win'98, PII 350, SB Live!, Voodoo3 2000. Standard setup.

Thanks <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

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Your mistake is that you don't realize that dos only accepts 8 charactors for the directory name, I'm willing to bet that to change to that directory you can go to the root directory and then cd ageofr~1, cd wgrifle, then cd rifles.

Dos truncates the win95 style long filenames to six char and a ~1 for the first, a ~2 for the second with the first six charactors the same.

Two easy solutions to this are: rename the directories with 8 charactor or less names, or create a .bat file that will jump you to the directory you want to go to, so you never have to type cd xxxxxx~1 again.

I have a voodoo 3 3000 and had to use univbe to trick age of rifles into thinking I had a vesa video card, univbe errors out saying that it isn't a supported video card, but it works anyway.

Just like Steel Panthers 1, age of rifles wants a vesa card and voodoo's don't return the proper response.
thanks, John.

john g: Thanks 'ol buddy for the reply.

After seeing what I did wrong, and the fact that it doesn't matter how many (or how few) folders make up a game directory, I deleted the first two folders (Age of Rifles\wgrifle) and kept only the last folder (rifles).

Then I went to the DOS prompt, and typed in C:>cd\rifles

And presto. . . it worked!

Then I typed in "sound" and I configured the sound. I didn't need those other vesa drivers, it detected my SB Live!.

And then I was playing the game. I have wanted to play this game for years, but could never find it anywhere. I like the game's interface and layout.

What I am really interested in is playing some of those obscure battles.

I highly recommend this game to everyone. It's available at the underdogs:

http://www.theunderdogs.org/

And as a special favour to you john, I also recommend the game "Macheavelli the Prince", also at the underdogs. It is very deep in strategy, trading, economics and political maneuvering.

Thanks again, john g. You made my day <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

BTW, just one last question.

Does anyone know where I can obtain a pdf manual for Age of Rifles?

Originally posted by Von Rom:
BTW, just one last question.

Does anyone know where I can obtain a pdf manual for Age of Rifles?

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No!
But if you haven't, I suggest you go to Norm Koger's Web page and down load the "Universal" 1.04 patch.
I've got the manual so if you have problems let me know and I do what I can.
Played the heck out of that game.
Norm sez it works fine on 95, tried a couple of times with no problems.

Thanks abradley: I appreciate the advice.

After fooling around with the game for a while, I am surprised no one has re-made this game, or updated it. I like the fact they used a woodgrain look for the layout of the game. Well ahead of its time.