Solar Winds

[Draken]

Can anyone tell me how to start the game? lol.. all I get is either a frozen story screen or frozen game screen after the intro. Is there some button to push?

[Dogbreath]

Try turning off the sound and music, or starting in MS DOS mode if you have a Windows 98. (It did this a lot on my 95, though strangely it works perfect on any other computer)

[Draken]

Still nothing, altho I am running Windows XP :S think its just being geh...

[SlrWndsFn]

After a while I decided to try that damn good game again. Last time all went fine on my Win98 but now I get exactly what is said above: freakin' frozen bloody screen. What ever I do or try. Is there any patch or prog or way to get this working on XP? HELP! I really like the game and Id be sad if XP is a joykill. Same thing with both of them. Turned sound off, music off, no joystick, mouse enabled and then it starts but freezes after first picture. went in through comm prompt but no luck. Can someone try the game or tell me how to make it work?

[Interon]

Solar Winds is a buggy game. Since DOSBox is like using a different computer, it is worth a try, http://dosbox.sourceforge.net

[w]

What up buddy, what you need to do is go online and find a dos emulator. Windows XP dos is completly different. you can get the up date at http://dosbox.sourceforge.net
hope this helps you out. once you install the program make the .exe file a short cut on your desktop and click and drag solar winds run .exe program to the short cut that you put on your desktop and it will run like it should.
Draken,

[nubious]

DosBox Works - tested and confirmed!

[The Rick]

ok so when iu start the game, it freezes at the story page,,, so i downloaded dosbox..... and it seems to work , but now when i try to get to the game it says .... "unable to find BH_CHAR.DAT" ilooked in the files contained in the solar winds folder and its there..... does anyone have any ideas as to what i can do???????
pleeaase!!!!!!
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[rmonkey]

The only bug I ever found with the game is the: 'return scientist to titus' mission never dissapears. Also depending on how you deal with the ending, certain missions come back and stuff... odd.

[Blueoriontiger]

I'm back from the brink...

Go to Windows Explorer, and find the Solar Winds Folder. Highlight it, right-click it, and make sure Read-Only is unchecked. I have received that error many times, and I assume that it cannot write to that file because it is a read-only. Make sure all files could be written to.

Good Luck!!