[Janos]

I HAVE THAT GAME

But I don't remember the name, though. Ladder Man or something equally stupid?

[Turnsky]

Jumpman IIRC

[Nico]

My version on M05 was called runner, IIRC.

[Grim Divine]

Best ever:

1. do not build avenger until very late game (final alien base attack)....
2. put 3 plasma hovertanks and 2 commanders on transport....
3. soldiers stay inside , tanks blast everything ....
4. wait for "alien commander/navigator (etc.) has panicked" announcement...
5. take 2 soldiers with stun cannons inside battleship...
6. capture aliens...

always attack medium (or was it large?) ufos which are landing NOT in the cities. These are supply ships, supplying alien base (You get tons of eleirium? 115).


Attacking alien base is another thing....
Take 14 soldiers, heavy plasmas, find psyhodelic loking wals and run there like hell. Go upstairs, kill alien commanders, blow upper level up.

Been playing X-COM since 1996.

[Ulala]

Eep, don't have a link to the welcome beam. But welcome anyway!

[karajorma]

Don't need a link anymore Ulala. Just type welcome surrounded by colons.

[castor]

Originally posted by Setekh
I love rediscovering old games. Cookie to anyone who recognises this classic, and double cookie if you can name the platform too.

Thats "Lode Runner" obviously running on some C64 emulator?

[Setekh]

Haha! Castor, you got it, 2 from 2. Damn that's a good game.

Welcome to HLP, Grim Divine. Where do you hail from?

[Raptor]

Ah, good old UFO: Enemy Unknown (European Name.  In the US there was already a game called UFO, so I've heard).  Loved it.  I prefered it to TFTD, mainly for the infinite ammo weapons (Lasers).  Too bad it and Win98 don't see eye-to-eye.

TFTD was MUCH harder (have both, and completed them), and the added levels during base attack was a great inprovement, but there are flaws that kinda put me off (lack of bouyancy caused by the water, for instance).

Sure, Heavy Plasma may be a uber-weapon, but I'll take the good old earth built Laser Rifle any day.  That and a powersuit.

If they do do a remake, they really ought to (slightly) update the story a little (2005?), and VASTLY increase the range of weapons.  The old set is very genric.  Things like shotgus, miniguns;), MP-5s, M-16s, flamethrowers;7, 9mm handguns, .44 magmuns:devil:...etc.

Oh, and seperate the civilans movement turn from the ailens.  That's really annoying.

Tryed that quake based demo version.  Undecided.  Generally better, but...

[Flaser]

As I said check out this site:

http://www.projectxenocide.com/

This is the other project working on a remake - and after version 1.0 is out, they plan to incorporate a huge load of new features.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Raptor

TFTD was MUCH harder (have both, and completed them), and the added levels during base attack was a great inprovement

mmh? there were levels for base attacks in UFO too
I didn't beat TftT, mainly because I could never manage to prevent my whole squad from freaking out past a certain point in the game.
I could deal with the lobsters, with the nautilus, with every friggin mob, but psychology slapped me
Oh, I couldn't deal with the three days spend to find that damn last alien lost on some liner boat, which freaked out every turn, and prevented me from finishing the stupid level, either.
THAT really pissed me out, to be honest.

[Sandwich]

You know what would be uber-cool? A port to the Palm platform. I know there's a Pocket PC version in the works, but I want a Palm OS version!

[Nico]

You know what would be ubber cool? that it works under XP, for a start

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]I sense a disturbance in the sarcasm, as if billions of people cried out and were suddenly ridiculed...
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[Flaser]

Originally posted by Nico
You know what would be ubber cool? that it works under XP, for a start

Maybe with an FAT partiotion - but I seriously doubt it holds ture for all installs.

Yes it RUNS - but when it loads up tactical for the first time your in for a nasty suprise.
Moreover geospace runs too fast.

You need Dosbox for this.

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by Nico
Oh, I couldn't deal with the three days spend to find that damn last alien lost on some liner boat, which freaked out every turn, and prevented me from finishing the stupid level, either.

That's when you take a huge load of explosives and blow up the whole boat until you find it.

[Janos]

I'm completely lost trying to make this thing work on my comp. The download (CE) worked fine, except the graphics didn't work. Could see nothing.

Help me. I'm getting frustrated on Win XP.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Janos, set yourself up a small DOS partition and boot into it, winXP sucks.
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[Sandwich]

I'm running it on a Win98 install.

[Flaser]

Get Dosbox.

Run it in dynamic mode, but whenever the battlespace loads up - so before any ground mission - start it in full mode.

It's troublesome, but easier than messing with a Dos partition - and who the hell saw pure Dos run on our latest CPUs? I didn't - though it doesn't have to mean neither did anyone else...