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First post, by feipoa

Posted on 2014-10-30, 19:40

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I installed Battlezone from an extracted ISO files over the LAN. Battlezone requires a CD to start. I coppied the iso image to a physical CD and put the CD in the drive when asked. I click OK, but the program keeps asking me for the CD and will not start Single Player mode.

Is this problem occuring because I installed Battlezone from the LAN and not the CD drive? Or could it because I installed Battlezone to C:\Program Files\Battlezone instead of the default directory of C:\Program Files\Activision\Battlezone ?

I tried 3 different Battlezone nocd patches. loader.exe, bz_loader.exe, and runme.exe. Neither of them worked. The game continues to ask me for the CD. Does anyone have any idea as to what I could be doing wrong?

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Reply 1 of 10, by Qbix

Posted on 2014-10-30, 19:48

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I take it that the game is freeware and such ? Or are you thinking that you are on the wrong forum ?

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Reply 2 of 10, by feipoa

Posted on 2014-10-30, 20:36

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I thought they opened the source code for the game; I may be mistaken. I could post to http://www.battlezone1.com

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Reply 3 of 10, by Targaff

Posted on 2014-10-30, 21:12

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One of the devs is maintaining an unofficial patch (see here), but a third-party site has put together a custom installer based on that patch is not the same as the game being open-sourced.

Reply 4 of 10, by leileilol

Posted on 2014-10-30, 22:03

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Also those patches are compiled with newer VCs and require a DX9 card so no chance for 486 testing on those.

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Reply 5 of 10, by nekurahoka

Posted on 2014-10-30, 23:27

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Well, my first instinct was that the install has a registry entry pointing to the LAN address as the source drive, but I can't find a relevant registry entry in the first place (I have the game and CD). There also doesn't appear to be an entry pointing to the source drive in the game's config files. You might try reinstalling using the CD you burnt. I bet it'll fix it.

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Reply 6 of 10, by feipoa

Posted on 2014-10-31, 00:37

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Targaff wrote:
One of the devs is maintaining an unofficial patch (see here), but a third-party site has put together a custom installer based on that patch is not the same as the game being open-sourced.

If installing the game using the installer provided by this third-party site, does that imply the game is now classified as "freeware"? Version 1.4 of the installer will work with Win9x.

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Reply 7 of 10, by Targaff

Posted on 2014-10-31, 01:28

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No, it means that someone feels convenience is more important than copyright. It's no more "freeware" than versions available from abandonware sites are "legal".

Reply 8 of 10, by leileilol

Posted on 2014-10-31, 01:46

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Sadly. They're just as bad as the Soldier of Fortune community in that aspect. and the Quakeworld community. and the Quake2 community. and the UT community, all having to resort to piracy to rebuild their 'dedicated communities'

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Reply 9 of 10, by feipoa

Posted on 2014-10-31, 02:05

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I had no idea. I thought sometimes private developers get permission to continue development or improvements on some old abandon games. Or is this never the case?

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Reply 10 of 10, by Targaff

Posted on 2014-10-31, 02:18

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Occasionally, sure, but usually the companies aren't interested.

The Battlezone series in particular has had so much love from its community over such a long time that it really should get a release on GOG or similar - it doesn't even really need any work at this point, since the unofficial patches have done all the legwork for them. I have some sympathy for the communities in that regard. In the meantime, though, I don't think those installers require anything else and are probably a better option now than trying to run it on a retro machine at this point.

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