[Curley_Boy]

According to the compatibility listing on the main page, Tyrian works under Windows 2000. However when i try and run it, it exits to the command prompt with:

Runtime error 200 at 0006:301A.

I've tried the usual VDMsound & CLI2NOP but to no effect

[DosFreak]

Tyrian 2000 DOS does not work in 2000/XP. Sorry.

I heard that a different ver of Tyrian works but I've never found it or used it. It doesn't even work in emulators such as Connectix Virtual PC so I'm guessing it's a speed/processor problem.

[Curley_Boy]

I've managed to download Tyrian 2000... and using VDMsound:

1. SFX Freeze the game on startup
2. Midi can lock up intermittently
3. The game is Slowwww even in Turbo mode.

Still it *does* actually load now, which is more than can be said for v2.0. I'll continue testing to see if I can make any improvements. Guess it's silent mode from now on.

[djinn]

Quote:

I've managed to download Tyrian 2000... and using VDMsound:

1. SFX Freeze the game on startup
2. Midi can lock up intermittently
3. The game is Slowwww even in Turbo mode.

Still it *does* actually load now, which is more than can be said for v2.0. I'll continue testing to see if I can make any improvements. Guess it's silent mode from now on.

wow... i'm new here (hi) and i really hate to bump this old topic, but i did actually get tyrian full version 2.0 to work

tppatch, and moslo running at /32 on Windows XP was my solution, however...

The Bugs:
? No sound
? Freezes on certain occurances (level warp acquire/appearance)
? As with curley, the game is incredibly painfully slow (yes, even on turbo)

any suggestions, feel free to e-mail me at kurtis200200@yahoo.com

all help will be appreciated, thank you

[DosFreak]

Working with one of the Tyrian developers we finally got Tyrian working with DosBox. Check it out! I haven't tested it fully yet but it looks pretty good.

[djinn]

One of the developers?! That's awesome!

BTW, when you say "check it out", how do you mean...

Yes, through actual reading of forums, i have discovered that my post should have been in the XP section for games, not NT/2000. Sorry for this

[DosFreak]

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

Hmm, not sure if the official release supports Tyrian. If not I'll give ya a link for the latest binary of the CVS.

[djinn]

damn i feel like a noob...

"dosbox illegal command"...

help

[DosFreak]

That ver of Dosbox probably doesn't support it.

Here's a binary of the CVS from Dec 29th:

Game loaded up fine.

http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=3459&highlight=

[djinn]

Quote:

The topic or post you requested does not exist

and when it says "illegal command: dosbox." is that the same thing?

[DosFreak]

Not sure what your asking?

If you cannot find the thread then do a search for "weekly updated CVS builds".

[djinn]

waiting for my confirmation e-mail from mypixels.dk...

until then i can't get the updated cvs grr

[DosFreak]

Are you sure you can't access this thread? http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=3459&highlight=cvs+build

The mypixels forum is a totally seperate forum from VOGONS and the registration is a mess.

DosBox
http://vogons.zetafleet.com/files/dosbox/dosbox-debugger.exe.gz

Required DosBox files
http://vogons.zetafleet.com/files/dosbox/support-files.rar

[djinn]

Quote:

Are you sure you can't access this thread? http://vogons.zetafl...light=cvs+build

Quote:

http://vogons.zetafl...light=cvs+build "The topic or post you requested does not exist"

and thanks for the links

[djinn]

ahem.... gotta learn unix now...

btw, this is possibly not lawful, but is there a way i could decompile tyrian into it's text (C variant hopefully) form (to change things such as what weapons are called and add in extra shipediting capabilities)?