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SOLVED Anyone found a patched tv.exe for Terminal Velocity?

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First post, by keropi

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Hiya!!!
Yesterday I installed my original copy of TV (big boxed too!) on my p200mmx machine... The cd installed the latest 1.2 version, all went well , I setup my sound and run tv.exe ... but NO. It just quits after the message:
Loading sound driver...
So I quickly moved my HDD to a pII/233 machine, booted DOS - same crash. One final test revealed that a K6-II/450 can run it (no surprise there - it is known that K6's are more tolerant to speed issues)
The first thing that came to mind was that tv.exe was a TurboPascal exe. Tried patching it, even unpacking it in case it was compressed with an exe compressor. No luck there too , looking inside the file I can clearly see "watcom C" message and it is not packed at all. Something must exist I am sure, the time TV was out was close to cpu's at 200+ mhz.... Any info would be appreciated!

ps. I found a way to load the game without tv.exe , just load the corresponding .com for your soundcard and then start game.exe . I don't know if this is a safe way to run it though...

Last edited by keropi on 2010-02-15, 22:15. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 1 of 3, by leileilol

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It worked fine natively on my speedier machines, it's got to be some conflict with your sound card. It is not a CPU speed related crash.

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Reply 2 of 3, by keropi

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then how do you explain that it will not run even if I select "no sound" on the setup ?

edit: this .bat works OK , and unloads the driver too

echo off
sb16.com   (replace it with whatever soundcard you have chosen in setup)
game.exe
sb16.com unload

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OK, I took the hdd from the k6 machine. put it in my 200mmx one. booted. TV runs FINE. Installed it on another dir (remember only the HDD is different) runs fine again. Same cdrom, same disk (original 1.2version) same everyrything. The old hd was a Seagate , now using an IBM one. strange eh?

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Reply 3 of 3, by keropi

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SOLVED:

it was MY fault. sound/etc was irrelevant. I was experimenting with a DOS version, and had edited msdos.sys
I had: WINDIR=. , WINBOOTDIR=. (no windows installed , using win98se DOS) , I should have put instead of . the correct choise: C:
tv.exe is a launcher , and was trying to execute: .\command.com /c game.exe
naturally .\ is total BS 🤣 , so changing the value in msdos.sys did the trick.

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