Imperium Galactica

[jaza]

Okay cheers for that I'll update.
I've managed to fix the problem, finally in a round about way following this tutorial. ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.php?t=612827 as that had my exact problem. But cheers for letting me know about the latest version much appreciated.

Jaz

[dosraider]

Enjoy it.

THX for that link, seems interesting.
http://ataricommunity.com/forums/showth ... p?t=612827

[DeeYo]

I'ma having a problem here too.

I have DosBox 0.70 and Windows XP. When I try running the game in DosBox (mount c c:\IMPERIUM, c: ,imperium.exe[I'm not really good at DosBox]) it's totally normal, except for the sound, because there is none, although when I type install.exe, I test the sound and it works.

Also, when I click on "start new game", then "normal", I get an "insert Disc 1" screen. Even if I put that disc in, it still says "enter disc 1".

I tried modifying the CPU cycles (it lags from 15000 to me) and sometimes even the frameskip (from 5 it lags) but nothing else. Insert disc,*click*, insert disc, I'm inserting*click*, insert disc, I'm getting angry*click*, insert disc, RAGECONTROLEFNINE.

Could you help me?

[DeeYo]

Oh, and also. I tried downloading patch 1.3 but I could never find a downloadable link. Click but nope. (Patch 1.2 however, worked.)

[dosraider]

I have DosBox 0.70 and Windows XP.....

No, not good, get 0.74 and follow those guidelines:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5443

...mount c c:\IMPERIUM, c: ,imperium.exe[

No, not good, see above.

[DeeYo]

Kay, got 0.74, now what? I don't really understand the BIN and CUE things above, I mean I'm a complete beginner at this DosBox coding stuff. (To me, everything that isn't normal, understandable speech is coding.)

And I still cannot download patch 1.3, somehow, all the links I see are broken.

Gah.

[dosraider]

Do you have the CDs...?

[DeeYo]

Yes, I do have them.

[dosraider]

Get ImgBurn from
http://www.imgburn.com/

Create a bin/cue image from both CDs, name them
c:\games\ig1\ig1.cue and bin
c:\games\ig1\ig2.cue and bin

mount them in dosbox as follows:
imgmount d c:\games\ig1\ig1.cue c:\games\ig1\ig2.cue -t iso

As all is already explained on previous page I'll 'echo-quote' myself:

Next input:
d:
install

You will get an install screen, click on 'install game, this should be the result:




Hover with your mouse as in the next pic click on it and next hit enter, accept c:\imperium, you must get a screen indicating the files are copied to the harddisk:




Next step still in the install screen, click on autodetect sound, should detect SB with the appropiate settings, run a test, now you will see that you can save the configuration.
As here:


Save and exit, you will see a c:\imperium prompt.
input
imperium
to play.

Now if you close / restart dosbox and wanna play:
Mount your CD again as D and your inputs will be
That is of course if you have followed ALL the instructions !!!

cd imperium
imperium

You even haz pictures how to do the stuff.
Remark: delete any previous game folder you had before applying this; it's worthless anyway.

[DeeYo]

Yayz it's working! I still don't understand how do these files work though, but nevertheless, I can now enjoy the game! Thank you!

[dosraider]

You're welcome, enjoy the game.
Reminder: CTRL+F4 to switch CDs when asked.

I still don't understand how do these files work though,

Doesn't matter, you don't need any knowledge as long you can follow instructions.

[Waffen9999]

Hey, I hope you're still around and can maybe try and help me out. I fear I'm even a bigger putz with this stuff than some other folks but I tried to follow exactly as you said and I get this message "Could not load image file: c:\oldgames\imperium\ig1.cue MSCDEX: Failure: Invalid file or unable to open"

I have the 4 files, 2 cue's and 2bins, the cues are only 1kb and the 2 bins are 660,674kbs for the first disc and 650,618bs for the second disc. I have them saved as Ig1 and Ig2 respectively. Operating under the Dosbox0.74 on Vista.

I used that ImgBurn software and well here's hoping you can give me a hand. Sorry if that's not much to go on, but I'm not very technical with this stuff. Hope you can help dosraider, if you need more just let me know.

Thanks.

[dosraider]

Mount lines?
Correct path under Win to the CD images?

[Waffen9999]

Mount lines?
Correct path under Win to the CD images?

Mount lines I typed out were basically as you have shown on page 2 of this thing. This is exactly what I type.

imgmount d c:\oldgames\imperium\ig1.cue c:\oldgames\imperium\ig2.cue -t iso

Because it's already at the drive due to configuring the options. Like when it loads up I'm in the C drive so if I type in "dir" for the directory, it shows just "Imperium"

The CD images are in the same folder.
C:\oldgames\Imperium


This is the link to what I was talking about in terms of setting up the configuration first. http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5443


If I just type in normally "cd imperium" than "imperium" it'll load up but I can't play for some reason though I had it working last night.

[dosraider]

....Vista.

....

This is the link to what I was talking about in terms of setting up the configuration first. http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5443

Wrong.

Is for XP .....

That's for Vista:
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10437
Not the same.
I would advise you to start over from scratch.

Next: Delete your old CD images and create new ones, this time do it correct when under Vista and save the images in:
c:\users\your name\isos\

Your mount lines for the images will be:
imgmount d "c:\users\your name\isos\ig1.cue c:\users\your name\isos\ig2.cue " -t iso

Then install the game in dosbox from D: on C: as described in previous posts.

[Waffen9999]

Ok something still isn't right. I'm doing it step by step as you have written here. I did the normal config as shown under that vista thing. So at the bottom this is what I have typed out. Not sure if that space needs to be there as I couldn't see in the sample picture.

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount c "c:\users\The Kaiser\oldgames"
c:


# You can put your MOUNT lines here.

So now, I deleted the old CD images and made new ones. I saved them in my c:\users\my name\isos\

So now, I open up Dos box and typed in, exactly as you had the following.

imgmount d "c:\users\your name\isos\ig1.cue c:\users\your name\isos\ig2.cue " -t iso

And I get this. "The image must be on a host or local drive." If I remove the "" I get the message, "Image file not found."

[dosraider]

Whoops I made some tipooz ... can happen.
Each image needs a " at begin and end with a space between them.
imgmount d "c:\users\your name\isos\ig1.cue" "c:\users\your name\isos\ig2.cue" -t iso

Reason is the space in your user name, if you don't have a space you don't need them "" things.

BTW, if IG is the only game you play you can add them CDimage mount line in the dosbox conf [autoexec] sub as last line.

If later you want to (temp)disable that img automount you can add a # in front of the line. Then dosbox will not execute it.

[Waffen9999]

It worked! You're a genius! On a side note, I don't suppose you know where I could obtain the 1.2 or 1.3 patch? I've scoured the net and no place seems to have it. I found the Hungarian patch and installed that thinking it wouldn't change text but lo and behold, everythin is in Hungarian now so I have to fix that.
It probably would be the only thing I use, so I would just add them like this?

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount c "c:\users\The Kaiser\oldgames"
c:
imgmount d "c:\users\your name\isos\ig1.cue" "c:\users\your name\isos\ig2.cue" -t iso

# You can put your MOUNT lines here.

[dosraider]

Yep, something like that, except that 'your name' probably needs to be 'The Kaiser' ... ?

As for a gamepatch :
"The Patches Scrolls", my friend, The Patches Scrolls. everyone should have that site bookmarked, really.
http://www.patches-scrolls.de/
(sometimes a bit slow, once in a while down, but still the ultimate site to find patches)
And yes, they have all the patches for Imperium Galactica.
English ones included. ( US and Eur/English)
Use the search function with "imperium", you will get them patches.

[Waffen9999]

It works and all, except one small problem. After installing the patch <thanks> I now have no sound. It's definately the patch as I deleted the game reinstalled it and fired it up before installing the patch and I can hear everything just fine. Any ideas? It's the 1.3 patch as that was the only one I saw listed. I just unzipped it, copied it into the folder overwriting everything it wanted.