Posted January 15, 2015
It's just a niggle, but I get no animation during the intro. Does anyone know how to get the animation? I am running the game from the GOG default.
UK_John
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Registered: Sep 2008
From United Kingdom
Negatus
fnd need.fool it
Registered: Dec 2009
From United States
Posted January 15, 2015
The PC version of Starflight 1 is pretty lackluster. Are you sure there is any animation during the introduction? Maybe a planet rotation, but that's about it as far as I remember.
UK_John
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Registered: Sep 2008
From United Kingdom
Posted January 17, 2015
As I say, it's not a game killer, just a niggle, but wondered why I had no intro animation when YT video's do!:)
codefenix
finding a cure for mundanity...
Registered: Nov 2015
From United States
Posted September 14, 2016
As I say, it's not a game killer, just a niggle, but wondered why I had no intro animation when YT video's do!:)
It's the graphics mode. The zoomed-in swirl and spinning planet are in the Tandy/IBM PCJr graphics mode, not the EGA one. Go into the DOSBox config file and change the machine type to "tandy" (instead of "svga" or "vga" or whatever). Then make sure you select the RGB graphics mode when the game starts, as EGA won't work anymore.
Hope this helps.
Post edited September 15, 2016 by codefenix
UK_John
New User
Registered: Sep 2008
From United Kingdom
Posted September 15, 2016
As I say, it's not a game killer, just a niggle, but wondered why I had no intro animation when YT video's do!:)
It's the graphics mode. The zoomed-in swirl and spinning planet are in the Tandy/IBM PCJr graphics mode, not the EGA one. Go into the DOSBox config file and change the machine type to "tandy" (instead of "svga" or "vga" or whatever). Then make sure you select the Tandy/IBM graphics mode when the game starts, as EGA won't work anymore.
Hope this helps.
codefenix
finding a cure for mundanity...
Registered: Nov 2015
From United States
