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  1. I do own the games UFO defence ( original & gold ) TFTD and i even used to have Apoc. proof--- The music was done by John Broomhall (UFO) & The technical supplemenet for UFO has written on the front page : "Your X-com UFO Defense package should contain a Player's Handbook... etc" BTW i don't have photoshop so , really I don't see any quick way to convert the files with the programs I have.
  2. lol Daishiva's program worked for me ( except it won't load "big objects" ) now i know why nobody has the sprites - It would take a month to convert them all to GIF format. ! I'll keep you posted on my progress.
  3. I tried Daishiva's pck view - it worked but none of the selectable paletts produced perfect results. Could be that i'm using xp pro at school :dontgetit: I'll try using another OS . In the meantime - if you have them all ripped please email me at benny@xboxottawa.ca and i'll host them to the public.
  4. Ok thanks , i'll try to extract the files myself today... But my school's computers don't like to have programs installed on them. I'll let everyone know if i decide to host the files. pckview from the xcom util homepage doesn't work for me . I think because i have ONLY the xcom "gold edition" from the pc gamer diskette. Which program is a stand-alone pck viewer ?
  5. NO ! lol, i would host them on my website ie FTP them from school to an online server . I don't think anyone has to worry about swapping sprites from a game that came out over 8 years ago. I think a lot of that legal bs has expired . I'm holding the PC Gamer disk # 5.10 "Classic Games Collection " which includes a full install of xcom ufo as well as several others -The Secret of Monkey Island hasn't been a secret for a very , very long time if you get my drift. I can do some research on the topic if it would change your mind ... but , i'm hoping someone will let me grab the files from them so i can toss them up on my website. any idea on the file size ? benny@xboxottawa.ca
  6. yes, unfortunately im usually stuck at home with dial-up.. or at school with admined computers. I can't install anything basically, directx 9 is out of the question. If you could point to where i could download the files ( ufo defence ) I will most certainly host them for everyone else here. It's the least i can do, and frankly won't affect my bandwidth diddly squat ( i'm used to hosting huge files ) btw the avatar creator is great. And if the images wern't anti-aliased i'd probably sit there for .. no i wouldn't thanks in advance. benny@xboxottawa.ca BTW if you like halo videos go visit my site.
  7. ok. I spent 3 hrs today using cool edit pro converting xcom sounds to mp3. I have all of them , 79 unique sounds ( weighing in at aprox 1MB ) I'm willing to share for the complete graphics collection. I'll have them up on my site shortly. benny@xboxottawa.ca ( i spent 7 years playing xcom... now i've switched to Halo lol)
  8. Oh, the reason i want the "sprites" is because i really badly want to make a flash cartoon series using the xcom world. I think it could be awsome , but i would need EVERY last image in the game. Unfortunatly i'm dim and can't rip them myself.
  9. Can we make a graphics section containing all the converted pick files ? I'll host them all on my website, I'm more than willing too - and have unlimited bandwidth. Might as well bundle them all up for the public , every one is looking for them. please email me if you have them all on your computer.. preferably bmp's and zipped, And i'll grab them from you. benny@xboxottawa.ca
  10. Ben

    multiplayer program

    Really, i hope they added some sort of skin, but that's not as important. I'd really like there to be a multiplayer community, does anyone on this forum play ? or know of a group that plays often. i'll check their forums too . thanks
  11. No i definitely meant blaster - bong... you know, the one that summons a giant mushroom and puts everything asleep within a 100' radius? Actually , there isn't a better name for it really. Blaster Bomb pretty much sums it up right there.
  12. So i downloaded it from the authors site. I'm left with an ini file. how does one get it to run. Awsome idea BTW. http://www.xcomufo.com/ < the link to it is here , any one get this thing to run on gold ? thanks
  13. Having an alien base on the side to raid weekly is one of the best ways to make huge money... but it's a dirty job. Im surprised you don't have to pay your mercs more for those missions, Mind you it get's a whole lot easier with MC. Once you get more than one skyranger team on the go you can attempt to capture all of the alien ships ( 5 i think, usually anyway) when they drop in to persuade a countries government. Timing is crucial for they don't stay to long. as i havn't done it in some time i can't remember exactly how much you can make.. but it's over 5mil im pretty sure. [2 battleships, 2 large , and one terror ship ] = $$$
  14. Wow, you guys are the best. lol. The chatter on this board is quite nostalgically relaxing. i'm STARTINg IT up AgAIn , i can't believe it. Haven't played in two years... and now it's 1998 all over again. Hey, anyone else go throught the tops of the battleships via flying suit and blaster bong. ? Any one else get pissed off when you accidentally blow away the ufo power source? or spoil several corpses .. i hate that lol. I also hate it when i run around the entire map looking for a panicked sectoid, and it ends up inside the avenger.
  15. What worked for me , and i have gold edition. .. and i'm pretty sure this works with everyone. go to you dirextx diagnostics ( program files ) and disable hardware acceleration. you should be ready to go.
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