Sorry forgot to mention using Windows XP home ed with NTFS file system on HD!

(obviously talking to meself at this point)
OK... i managed to manually install the game by copying files and fortunately directory structure was the same between cd and install.
Heres what i found out.
1) my cycles were set WAY TOO HIGH. Although fine for the simple games id tried before, the graphics and sound of this game required much more complex emulation and cpu usage. For this game 5400 seemed to work best but that was still too high - i occasionally had 1/4 inch plateus of 100% cpu usage in task manager.

2) at 5400 cycles normal movement was playable but not smooth combat was choppy but withstandable and i couldnt use the shopkeeper.

3)i believe if someone out there had one of those 3ghz compus this game would probably be completely playable

4) when installing this game the data.a00 is an .arj file that should be decompressed into the thunder directory, mscdex must be used to play game with all sound. Game is started by typing "main" in thunder directory

hi
i am trying to run thunderscape, an old RPG from SSI, and i am unable to get the game to load. i'm using the free copy distributed by Home Of The Underdogs, and i'm running it on a 2ghz athlon XP, with 1gb ram and XP home. i have the latest version of dosbox and the D-Fend front end thingy. the game is a verion with a no-cd patch applied.
thunderscape won't run at all in windows.

the game (or dosbox) crashes after displaying
"line=0
error number=0
error status=0
no cd
module = ".
if i mount a cd drive dosbox or the game crashes after displaying
"version 1.10a
Init heap of 7000000"
i'm not sure if the problem is with dosbox or the game, but the game seems more likely. this has me completly confused, so does anyone know what causes this or even have a vague idea what causes it?
i did a search on this forum, the d-fend front end and google but i can't find anything.
Thanks

from the beginning...

unpack the tscape zip file
inside are
thunder.arj
thunder.a01-a09 (parts of the .arj)
thsca11.exe

unpack the thunder.arj
inside the unpacked thunder directory is another thunder directory
copy all the files from this directory into the root thunder.
unpack thsca11.exe
its a patch
copy the main.exe into the thunder directory

run setsound in the dosbox
run main

works for me.

damn it... i thought i was still logged in.. oh well... a post just because the last one didn't count towards my total.

ribbon13. I merged the two topics, but I posted directly here for you to keep your post count. 😎

Hey ribbon13 quit talking to yourself 😉