First post, by Diamonion
I'm getting ready to move, and as part of the ever present fun of getting ready to move, I've been sorting through old games, deciding what to get rid of and what to keep. And of course I stumbled on my old BotSP disks. Not having a floppy drive any more, I was forced to get the game from HotU, hoping that I could get it to work right. Installing was easy enough, shuffling things through folders to simulate changing disks, and the game seems to run fine. Until I start to play.
The selection screen and such works fine. You can choose scenarios and all make your 'character', get to the main map screen. The Buttons there all work. Run puts the game going. Ja/Us take you to the orders screen. And these are where the issues come from. If you go to the orders screen, the game seems to freeze solid. The mouse moves around the screen, but clicking does nothing, no button responses.
IF you hit 'run' instead, the game moves smoothly, enemy fleets disappear and appear when found by floatplanes. And as soon as a surface fleet engagement happens, though... the game freezes again. The mouse moves, but you're not taken to the battle screen, nothing happens. You're just stuck on the main screen, with the little 'battle' icon on your attacked fleet. Any ideas/thoughts/solutions to the issue? To add things along, I'm running everything in windows 7.
