DOSBOX..I'm in Heaven! Master of Magic is finally Installed!

<AMooreonline.RemoveThis@juno.com> wrote in message
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> Well..It's going the snow hard up here in the Boston area today &
> tonight. I decided to try & get Master of Magic running on the PC.
> Tried everything the normal Windows XP way & nothing doing. Then I D/L
> DOSBOX & was reading a ton of different e-mails on their forums. Took
> me a few hours...but then I was watching the opening credits to the
> game. Damn near brought a tear to my eyes.
>
> The great thing is I'm getting all of the sounds..i.e. music & units
> sounds! No problems what so ever. Also...I have a 19" LCD monitor & at
> first the game looked simply horrid from the monitor trying to scale
> everything in "Full Screen" mode. Went on the DOSBOX forums & found a
> way to play in 320x200 resolution & it looks perfect! Well....I
> wouldn't say 320x200 is anywhere near perfect.
>
> I'm so damn pumped right now! I'm off to play Nature Magic, Warlord &
> High Elves to start. It's been like 5-6 years since I played this gem
> of a game. Even for all of it's flaws....It's still ranks in my top 3
> games of all-time!
>
> So..For some of you who haven't installed MoM in WinXP...It can be
> done with nice results.
>
> Alex
>

Well, I finally got around to playing with this. Success!! Sort of. I got
MOM installed, configured and working, and it is running well in Dos Box.
The only problem is the box is about 4 inches wide.

Any idea how to make it bigger? There's no 'mazimize' on it.

Jeff
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> Well, I finally got around to playing with this. Success!! Sort of. I got
> MOM installed, configured and working, and it is running well in Dos Box.
> The only problem is the box is about 4 inches wide.
>
> Any idea how to make it bigger? There's no 'mazimize' on it.
>
> Jeff

Hit alt and enter. Gives you full screen.
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>> Well, I finally got around to playing with this. Success!! Sort of. I got
>> MOM installed, configured and working, and it is running well in Dos Box.
>> The only problem is the box is about 4 inches wide.
>>
>> Any idea how to make it bigger? There's no 'mazimize' on it.
>>
>> Jeff
>
> Hit alt and enter. Gives you full screen.

That did the trick. Thanks.
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> "spartacus" <rmielech DeleteThis @comcast.net> wrote in message
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>>
>>> Well, I finally got around to playing with this. Success!! Sort of. I
>>> got MOM installed, configured and working, and it is running well in Dos
>>> Box. The only problem is the box is about 4 inches wide.
>>>
>>> Any idea how to make it bigger? There's no 'mazimize' on it.
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>
>> Hit alt and enter. Gives you full screen.
>
> That did the trick. Thanks.

Or you can configure it to be full-screen using dosbox.
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AMooreonline RemoveThis @juno.com wrote:
> Well..It's going the snow hard up here in the Boston area today &
> tonight. I decided to try & get Master of Magic running on the PC.
> Tried everything the normal Windows XP way & nothing doing. Then I D/L
> DOSBOX & was reading a ton of different e-mails on their forums. Took
> me a few hours...but then I was watching the opening credits to the
> game. Damn near brought a tear to my eyes.
>
> The great thing is I'm getting all of the sounds..i.e. music & units
> sounds! No problems what so ever. Also...I have a 19" LCD monitor & at
> first the game looked simply horrid from the monitor trying to scale
> everything in "Full Screen" mode. Went on the DOSBOX forums & found a
> way to play in 320x200 resolution & it looks perfect! Well....I
> wouldn't say 320x200 is anywhere near perfect.
>
> I'm so damn pumped right now! I'm off to play Nature Magic, Warlord &
> High Elves to start. It's been like 5-6 years since I played this gem
> of a game. Even for all of it's flaws....It's still ranks in my top 3
> games of all-time!
>
> So..For some of you who haven't installed MoM in WinXP...It can be
> done with nice results.
>
> Alex

Guys.... Another success story. Got Fantasy General to play with music
& sound. It plays without any real chop @ all! Great game & I'm having
a blast! DOSBOX is truly a miracle.

Alex
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AMooreonline RemoveThis @juno.com wrote:
> Well..It's going the snow hard up here in the Boston area today &
> tonight. I decided to try & get Master of Magic running on the PC.
> Tried everything the normal Windows XP way & nothing doing. Then I D/L
> DOSBOX & was reading a ton of different e-mails on their forums. Took
> me a few hours...but then I was watching the opening credits to the
> game. Damn near brought a tear to my eyes.

I've been playing it frequently during the past month as well using
DOSBox. I'm not sure what games would be in my top five games ever but
Master of Magic would be guaranteed a place on it. In the past week
I've managed to complete two impossible campaigns which I was never
able to do previously. It's a nice accomplishment after waiting all
these years.

Currently in the game I'm playing Sss'ra has cast Time Stop. I've
never had this happen from a computer player before: It's annoying! I
thought the game froze initially since he had such a large mana
reserve. For the past ten minutes the game has sat there making a
'click' as if a round was ending every minute or so. This could take
forever. Golly..

While waiting for the wizard to exhaust his mana I've begun to
speculate about various things. Is it possible for a city to rebel
when your tower is within it? Even if ther were no guards and taxes
were set to the highest, could your home base rebel? What would
happen? Would you be banished?

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AMooreonline.RemoveThis@juno.com schrieb:
....
> Guys.... Another success story. Got Fantasy General to play with music
> & sound. It plays without any real chop @ all! Great game & I'm having
> a blast! DOSBOX is truly a miracle.
> Alex

I tried to get both Panzer and Fantasy General to run in DOSBOX under
WIndows 98SE - but both only without sound
Which settings do you use?
bye
Michael
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In article <1140465497.364922.100540.DeleteThis@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
mattchu.mattchu.DeleteThis@gmail.com says...

> Currently in the game I'm playing Sss'ra has cast Time Stop. I've
> never had this happen from a computer player before: It's annoying! I
> thought the game froze initially since he had such a large mana
> reserve. For the past ten minutes the game has sat there making a
> 'click' as if a round was ending every minute or so. This could take
> forever. Golly..

I feel once he gets to maintain TimeStop for more than 5-6 turns you're
dogmeat. Because his power base will be growing exponentially with all the
extra nodes and towns he cracks while you get to sit and watch. I've had that
happen to me a couple of times :-\
If you've allowed him to get that big I suspect you have to start casting
Detect Magic frequently and torpedo any Big Nasty Global Enchantments he
attempts. And, ferchrissakes, start taking those nodes away from him BEFORE he
can do it <g>.

I make it part of my trading strategy to peddle away as many expensive spells
as I can that can't be used against me directly. Awareness, Summon Champion,
Wind Mastery, Create Artifact, Heavenly Light - in the hope that tha AI will
piss its mana pool away on those. Mostly works

As they get past that threshold I make it my mission to go 'capitol hunting'.
Getting him banished is almost as good as casting TimeStop, except for his
wandering troopies.

> While waiting for the wizard to exhaust his mana I've begun to
> speculate about various things. Is it possible for a city to rebel
> when your tower is within it? Even if ther were no guards and taxes
> were set to the highest, could your home base rebel? What would
> happen? Would you be banished?

No, I don't think you would lose your capitol. But you wouldn't get any
production from it either, because all the little workers would be out in the
streets, demonstrating, instead of churning out [whatever] goodies.

-P.

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mattchu wrote:
> AMooreonline DeleteThis @juno.com wrote:
> > Well..It's going the snow hard up here in the Boston area today &
> > tonight. I decided to try & get Master of Magic running on the PC.
> > Tried everything the normal Windows XP way & nothing doing. Then I D/L
> > DOSBOX & was reading a ton of different e-mails on their forums. Took
> > me a few hours...but then I was watching the opening credits to the
> > game. Damn near brought a tear to my eyes.
>
> I've been playing it frequently during the past month as well using
> DOSBox. I'm not sure what games would be in my top five games ever but
> Master of Magic would be guaranteed a place on it. In the past week
> I've managed to complete two impossible campaigns which I was never
> able to do previously. It's a nice accomplishment after waiting all
> these years.

Well, I too have now got it running in DosBox, in Win2k on my laptop,
WinXP on one desktop and Linux on another - so I can play it anytime,
with sound! I'm also trying an impossible campaign, but I've set magic
power (nodes) to low, which is kind of a cheat (because the AI prizes
nodes quite a lot). So although I'm behind on magic power, it's a lot
less than it might be.

> Currently in the game I'm playing Sss'ra has cast Time Stop. I've
> never had this happen from a computer player before: It's annoying! I
> thought the game froze initially since he had such a large mana
> reserve. For the past ten minutes the game has sat there making a
> 'click' as if a round was ending every minute or so. This could take
> forever. Golly..

Wow, I've never seen this either. In my game I seem to have only one
wizard on Myrror (the Aztec guy, can't recall his name) - I've bottled
him up in his capital, which is handily on a peninsula. The other three
all appear to be on Myrror, and none of us have taken any towers yet.
I'm just churning out my first Paladins (yes, I'm playing High Men) so
I should be able to take a tower with that.

The only drawback is that the other wizards (with whom I have no
diplomatic relationships, since we've not met yet) are constantly
casting Disjunction so I've given up trying to maintain any globals.
I'm currently researching Incarnation (a lucky rare since I only have
four white books). I read a guide to winning on impossible by "rushing"
to Summon Champion and getting a killer stack of good heroes, but I
think it's rubbish. On Impossible it's all you can do to survive and
spell research goes really slowly for the first couple hundred turns. I
even picked Sage Master instead of my usual Archmage, and it's still
slow.

> While waiting for the wizard to exhaust his mana I've begun to
> speculate about various things. Is it possible for a city to rebel
> when your tower is within it? Even if ther were no guards and taxes
> were set to the highest, could your home base rebel? What would
> happen? Would you be banished?

No. You can't lose your capital except to conquest. You'd just have no
income or production from it, meaning its building maintenance would
need subsidising by your other cities.

CC
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Michael: Ok...If you have WIN98...Then you shouldn't really need
DOSBOX. When we refer to DOSBOX...We are not talking about the regular
DOS that's available in WIN98. DOSBOX is a program made for people that
have Windows XP. You see...WINXP doesn't have a true DOS background
like WIN98. Anyway...You should be able to get the music & sound
working in WIN98 for Fantasy General. What type of sound card do you
have?

Alex
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Peter Huebner wrote:
> In article <1140465497.364922.100540.TakeThisOut@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
> mattchu.mattchu.TakeThisOut@gmail.com says...
>
> > Currently in the game I'm playing Sss'ra has cast Time Stop. I've
> > never had this happen from a computer player before: It's annoying! I
> > thought the game froze initially since he had such a large mana
> > reserve. For the past ten minutes the game has sat there making a
> > 'click' as if a round was ending every minute or so. This could take
> > forever. Golly..
>
> I feel once he gets to maintain TimeStop for more than 5-6 turns you're
> dogmeat. Because his power base will be growing exponentially with all the
> extra nodes and towns he cracks while you get to sit and watch. I've had that
> happen to me a couple of times :-\
> If you've allowed him to get that big I suspect you have to start casting
> Detect Magic frequently and torpedo any Big Nasty Global Enchantments he
> attempts. And, ferchrissakes, start taking those nodes away from him BEFORE he
> can do it <g>.

I just crushed him a few hours ago. Clearing out the nodes eradicated
his power base and even though he managed to start the Spell of Mastery
it was too late. Victory was a matter of crushing his cities
one-by-one at that point. Hoo-ray!

> I make it part of my trading strategy to peddle away as many expensive spells
> as I can that can't be used against me directly. Awareness, Summon Champion,
> Wind Mastery, Create Artifact, Heavenly Light - in the hope that tha AI will
> piss its mana pool away on those. Mostly works

I never considered it that way before. Often I select the Artificer
skill and guard the Create Artifact skill as a last-resort, bargining
chip. Even when I come up against an armed hero from the enemy it's
usually not too difficult to overcome them. Hmm. I'll try trading the
spell in the future with the hope that it'll become a mana sink.

> As they get past that threshold I make it my mission to go 'capitol hunting'.
> Getting him banished is almost as good as casting TimeStop, except for his
> wandering troopies.

Yeah, that's how I handle the late game: Doing my best to keep them
permanently banned until absolute victory is reached. <g>

> > While waiting for the wizard to exhaust his mana I've begun to
> > speculate about various things. Is it possible for a city to rebel
> > when your tower is within it? Even if ther were no guards and taxes
> > were set to the highest, could your home base rebel? What would
> > happen? Would you be banished?
>
> No, I don't think you would lose your capitol. But you wouldn't get any
> production from it either, because all the little workers would be out in the
> streets, demonstrating, instead of churning out [whatever] goodies.

Good to know!

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AMooreonline DeleteThis @juno.com schrieb:
> Michael: Ok...If you have WIN98...Then you shouldn't really need
> DOSBOX. When we refer to DOSBOX...We are not talking about the regular
> DOS that's available in WIN98. DOSBOX is a program made for people that
> have Windows XP. You see...WINXP doesn't have a true DOS background
> like WIN98. Anyway...You should be able to get the music & sound
> working in WIN98 for Fantasy General. What type of sound card do you
> have?

Soundblaster Live.
Not Windows 98 proper, but Windows 98SE.
bye
Michael
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Trying to get "Cavewars" to run thru' DosBox. I tried first the newest version, then the .63 version. Both give me the same problem.

The program asks me to put in the disk and hit ENTER. When I do, it just keeps asking the same thing, over and over again.

What am I doing wrong here???
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