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General discussionEveryone who likes fighting games: Vote for "Time Warriors"(18 posts)(18 posts)
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Posted June 09, 2017
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Cifer84: I don't quite understand the info under your link. Why deleting glide.dll? Would this help to run it under a modern system (with DOSBox or so)? Nevertheless, my wish to add it on GOG still remains (sadly I'm very pessimistic about that), almost all games I buy here are old games I own as retail versions.
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timppu: The list I linked was for nGlide, which is a 3Dfx Glide emulator for modern systems, so that you can get the enhanced 3Dfx graphics with such old Windows games, even if you don't have a genuine 3Dfx Voodoo card anymore.

I think the extra instructions there are for modern versions of Windows, where the Windows installation utility for Time Warriors apparently fails. So instead, they suggest you just copy all the files from the CD to a folder, delete that one file, and run the game directly using the executable.

I don't recall, but did the game CD have also a DOS version of the game there? If there are other issues with the Windows version on modern PCs, then the DOS version might be easier to get installed and running, by using DOSBox. But if you want the better 3Dfx graphics in DOSBox (with the DOS version), it might be you need a special version of DOSBox which has 3Dfx Glide emulation embedded (no need for nGlide then). Not sure if nGlide works also with DOSBox games, using vanilla DOSBox?

I might try to find my game CDs, if I can locate them. I know they are in one of the big boxes where I keep my old retail games (organized in several storage boxes, one containing action games, other one strategy games, third adventure games, fourth RPGs, fifth simulations (including space combat sims)...
Thanks for the info, I wasn't familiar with 3Dfx Glide. Right now I would just be happy to run this game somehow, maybe then I can check out 3Dfx Glide. I'm pretty sure that Time Warriors was not MS-DOS, but under this link it's says Windows 9x which means MS-DOS based WIndows systems. Should you ever find this game CD and succeed in getting it run under Windows XP, 7, 8 or 10, please let me know how you did that.
Posted June 09, 2017
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pimpmonkey2382.313: Speaking of PC fighting games, I'd like to see One Must Fall come here, the one with the mech, robots or whatever they are.
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huppumies: Oh yeah, OMF would be amazing. Also One Must Fall: Battlegrounds.
Didn't know that even existed, voted.
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timppu: The list I linked was for nGlide, which is a 3Dfx Glide emulator for modern systems, so that you can get the enhanced 3Dfx graphics with such old Windows games, even if you don't have a genuine 3Dfx Voodoo card anymore.

I think the extra instructions there are for modern versions of Windows, where the Windows installation utility for Time Warriors apparently fails. So instead, they suggest you just copy all the files from the CD to a folder, delete that one file, and run the game directly using the executable.

I don't recall, but did the game CD have also a DOS version of the game there? If there are other issues with the Windows version on modern PCs, then the DOS version might be easier to get installed and running, by using DOSBox. But if you want the better 3Dfx graphics in DOSBox (with the DOS version), it might be you need a special version of DOSBox which has 3Dfx Glide emulation embedded (no need for nGlide then). Not sure if nGlide works also with DOSBox games, using vanilla DOSBox?

I might try to find my game CDs, if I can locate them. I know they are in one of the big boxes where I keep my old retail games (organized in several storage boxes, one containing action games, other one strategy games, third adventure games, fourth RPGs, fifth simulations (including space combat sims)...
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Cifer84: Thanks for the info, I wasn't familiar with 3Dfx Glide. Right now I would just be happy to run this game somehow, maybe then I can check out 3Dfx Glide. I'm pretty sure that Time Warriors was not MS-DOS, but under this link it's says Windows 9x which means MS-DOS based WIndows systems. Should you ever find this game CD and succeed in getting it run under Windows XP, 7, 8 or 10, please let me know how you did that.
mobygames seems to say it got both a dos and a windows release.
Post edited June 09, 2017 by pimpmonkey2382.313
Posted June 09, 2017
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Cifer84: Thanks for the info, I wasn't familiar with 3Dfx Glide. Right now I would just be happy to run this game somehow, maybe then I can check out 3Dfx Glide.
Most probably the game supports also "software renderer" which is probably easier and more fool-proof to get running, but it will look somewhat worse then (blocky textures, maybe the textures will twist and warp oddly when the characters move, etc.). 3Dfx Voodoo (and other supported 3D accelerators) made the graphics look a bit smoother and cleaner, and also faster (but on modern systems you probably don't see the speed benefit that 3D accelerators gave back in late 90s, as nowadays we have plenty of CPU power anyway).

As Pimpmonkey mentioned, Mobygames says there were both DOS and Windows versions of the game available. This also sits well with the game's release year (1997), back then quite many games had both a DOS and Windows versions available, quite often on the same CDs. For instance Dungeon Keeper Gold, Fallout, Time Commando, Master of Orion 2, Carmageddon etc.

If I remember later, I'll check it out.
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