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Posted December 02, 2008
I have bought Battle Chess from Gog, but there is a problem i am having. The animations and movements in the first Battle Chess is very very slow and frustrating. I wonder if it is a problem about windows compatibility or is it just the way the game originally was?
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Posted December 02, 2008
have you tried pressing ctrl-f12 a few times to see if that helps
Posted December 10, 2008
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keremix: I have bought Battle Chess from Gog, but there is a problem i am having. The animations and movements in the first Battle Chess is very very slow and frustrating. I wonder if it is a problem about windows compatibility or is it just the way the game originally was?

No, the game originally is much faster. I don't know why GOG release is so slow, I have the same problem. My thought is that they got the right to sell battle chess, put it in dosbox and release it without testing it or knowing how faster it should be.
ctrl+f12 doesn't help.
Posted December 30, 2008
We've checked it on different machines with different operating systems and it looks like that these animations are slow by design. Thus I'm marking this topic as SOLVED.
Post edited December 30, 2008 by Tirpitz
Posted December 30, 2008
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Tirpitz: We've checked it on different machines with different operating systems and it looks like that these animations are slow by design. Thus I'm marking this topic as SOLVED.

As I said the game originally is meant to be faster. When I was a child I played it on a 8086 and was faster than that. The problem is, imo, dosbox.
Is it possibile, instead, to add the windows versione that I know exists?
Posted January 07, 2009
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MIK0: As I said the game originally is meant to be faster. When I was a child I played it on a 8086 and was faster than that. The problem is, imo, dosbox.
Is it possibile, instead, to add the windows versione that I know exists?

We've checked it on Win98 and it was as slow as it is in DOSBox. Maybe it seemed fast on that 8086 (years ago, back when you were a child)? Please remember that we have a different standards for animation speeds in the present. :)
Also as far as I know (though, I might be wrong) Interplay did not released any Battle Chess for anything higher than Windows 3.x .
Posted January 08, 2009
It's always been slow. The animations are tied to the sounds, which are paced such that they can be swapped in and played in time with the anims on an 8086.
But back in the 80s we didn't notice. Damnable nostalgia.
Posted January 13, 2009
Thanks for your answer
Posted February 23, 2010
can the gog team improve on the graphics?I remember on my 3do the graphics on this game were a 100 times better and the sounds were better too,as it is it kind of sucks
Posted March 17, 2010
I just noticed that disabling the sound in the menu (accessed by holding down the right mouse button) significantly increases the animation speed ;)
Posted January 21, 2011
I swear to god my memory is perfect. The chessboard was blue, the sound was squeakier, and the animations were faster.

I had this on a floppy disc on windows 98 back in the day.
Posted June 22, 2011
It's definitely slow. Freezing up when it has to play a sound alongside an animation. The moves were medium-slow on the original (I've played the Amiga and I think other versions) but SMOOTH, and the slowness/jerkiness here isn't the same.

I turned sound off and it plays just like the original on a quick test, so it is a conflict with the sound.

Great to be able to play it again though, GOG! :)
Posted June 24, 2011
I suck at chess, so now I can get my butt handed to me in a timely manner. Thanks for the solution.
Posted December 18, 2012
"Works for me *problem solved*".

This type of customer service is why I'm leery to buy anything from gog...
Posted January 04, 2013
I remember playing this on the Amiga and the sound didn't pause the animation while the sound was playing. I was hoping for the same experience with this DOSBox version. Oh well, at least BC4000 is fun.
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