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THC842 Registered user Last page view: 4498 days, 20 hours, 49 minutes and 31 seconds ago. |
I am trying to run adom 1.1.1 on vistas. The onlyproblem is getting the game to go full screen. I have actually seen this problem on every version of windows after ME. Does anyone know how to solve this? |
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Silfir Registered user Writer of Overly Long Guides Last page view: 4080 days, 21 hours, 55 minutes and 41 seconds ago. |
The DOS version of ADOM doesn't run in fullscreen on Vista. Believe me, I tried. Vista doesn't have the driver required anymore. They put in shitty 3D windows nobody uses or cares about past three seconds of novelty, and they took out the fullscreen graphics driver for MS-DOS. There's talk about "moving on" and "progress", but they won't ever be able to justify this to me with their 10 GB of pure software bloat. winbeta has never been fullscreen for me - I think it isn't capable. If you manage to get it to work, tell me by any means - it'd bring back much of the joy of ADOM for me. Maybe ADOM Sage will work? You drop the golden ball. You kick the golden ball. It slides to the west. Suddenly Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, appears! "That's not how you play Quidditch! are you even listening?" Which direction? (123456789) 4 Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is hit by a bolt of acid! Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is annihilated. You hear the ecstatic cries of a large crowd! |
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Jan Erik Administrator Last page view: 13 hours, 4 minutes and 51 seconds ago. |
Well to be fair having to retain full legacy support for DOS software has been holding windows back a bit, lots of weird quirks and limitations, so I can understand them finaly dropping most of it. Sucks for us who like "retro" games, but there are several deacent 3. party DOS emulators and virtual manchines and such that can be used DOS box for example. Jan Erik Mydland HoF admin |
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THC842 Registered user Last page view: 4498 days, 20 hours, 49 minutes and 31 seconds ago. |
silfir-i run the game (personally)on a 10 year old CPU the uses windows ME, when i download the game from the site i always go after the the non-winbeta version if that helps. Also, HOLY ESSS, i got a response from JAN. have not seen him in here for awhile! [Edited 1 time, last edit on 2/23/2009 at 09:11 (GMT -5) by THC842] |
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Silfir Registered user Writer of Overly Long Guides Last page view: 4080 days, 21 hours, 55 minutes and 41 seconds ago. |
My laptop is barely ten months old and never ran anything but Vista. I'd still prefer Vista over ME though... @ Jan Erik: I get that, yeah. I still don't see why they couldn't put fullscreen in cmd.exe... I try to avoid having to run games through DOSbox. Somehow, other people are much better at fiddling with its settings than I am. You drop the golden ball. You kick the golden ball. It slides to the west. Suddenly Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, appears! "That's not how you play Quidditch! are you even listening?" Which direction? (123456789) 4 Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is hit by a bolt of acid! Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is annihilated. You hear the ecstatic cries of a large crowd! |
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THC842 Registered user Last page view: 4498 days, 20 hours, 49 minutes and 31 seconds ago. |
I think the very fact that i will have trouble running this one game on full screen is preventing me from upgrading my entire CPU system, i am a nerd. |
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gut Registered user Painted this one too. Last page view: 4909 days, 23 hours, 30 minutes and 27 seconds ago. |
> The DOS version of ADOM doesn't run in fullscreen on Vista. Believe me Oh, for shame on you Silfir! : ) I've just now upgraded to vista myself (thanks a heap Darren : ) ), so bear with me on this if I screw up something. Install DosBox to it's default location, then create a shortcut to dosbox.exe. Edit the properties of the shortcut, and set the 'target' field in the following way: "C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.72\dosbox.exe" -conf "C:\Program Files\DOSBox-0.72\dosbox.conf" "c:/windows/mclips/adom111/adom.exe" That is assuming you have your dos version of ADOM 1.1.1 in the path entitled c:\windows\mclips\adom111, which by all means you shouldn't : ) This will allow you to automatically launch ADOM (via DosBox) with a simple icon double-click. Next, just press ALT+ENTER to enter full- screen mode. This doesn't fix the attrocious font problem, but that will have to wait until I have some more time. For now, I don't even remember the name of the proper font : ) EDIT: Upon reflection, it would probably be worthwhile to just edit the dosbox.conf file to change fullscreen=false to =true. EDIT 2: ADOM sage, here I come : ) Put me in the 'fool filter', where I belong! [Edited 1 time, last edit on 3/7/2009 at 07:51 (GMT -5) by gut] |
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Darren Grey Registered user Last page view: 4251 days, 21 hours, 13 minutes and 31 seconds ago. |
You finally got a new computer, eh? Personally I prefer XP to Vista, for compatibility reasons amongst many others. Of course if you have a better computer now you should probably make good use of ADOM Sage :P Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse." |
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Hatefulgravey Registered user Last page view: 5347 days, 18 hours, 41 minutes and 53 seconds ago. |
I have a lot of time put into DOS box, even with XP there were some things that only worked with DOS box or just worked better with it. I have never dealth with changing .conf files. I just use it like DOS. So I got Vista and I use DOS box just fine. The only thing is my right shift key wont work in it. Not sure if this is ADOM or DOS box but it makes me crazy. Anyone know what I can do here? Just makes me crazy. I can work around it, but it would be nice if I could do it without that. Playing for 10 years, got nothing to show for it. |
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gut Registered user Painted this one too. Last page view: 4909 days, 23 hours, 30 minutes and 27 seconds ago. |
I've never before even heard of that. It would almost have to be something related to dosbox though, because if it were an ADOM issue, I prolly would have heard of it by now. Put me in the 'fool filter', where I belong! |
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liptick Registered user The elf lover Last page view: 5258 days, 3 hours, 20 minutes and 47 seconds ago. |
Hatefulgravey : heres a quick test. open dosbox, try using the right shift key just for capitalization or something. if it works, adom isnt completely compatible which i doubt is the case. if it doesnt work still, then its dosbox, but only for you :P |
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Danoen Unregistered user |
You can just use the adom windows version and enlarge the font to whatever size you want with this: http://www.geocities.com/adombot/tweakfont.zip Just run the tweakfont.exe, select your adom .exe-file and choose a font. |