guderian

Nice sketches! I'd suggest one little change: http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/389714/FMArt2.JPG In the formation on the left, the alien will be able to see and fire at the southernmost soldier as soon as it opens the door, without necessarily stepping outside the craft. On the right, all the soldiers are (ideally) out of the line of sight until the alien steps outside, at which point the two guys right beside the door can give it the business along with everyone else.

Good call, 1.4 removes the distortion. The updated alien death sound is particularly egregious, but I guess I can live with hearing sectoids grunt instead of squeal, as long as it's a nice clear grunt.

Wow. Thank you. Thank you so much. The intro and xcomutil were fine, and the problem was in fact with sound settings, though not mine or xcom's - I had to change the irq address in dosbox to 1 or 2 for the game to run. The sound's still very jumpy and distorted, but it avoids the black screen on startup, so yay! Curiously enough, the irq setting that works with xcom is different from the one that works with all of my other games in dosbox (irq 7) ... I wonder why xcom's sound setup doesn't let you specify an irq address as well as the base port & dma channel? Anyways, I can play my favorite game again, and I'm sure a little more fiddling will improve the sound quality. Again, thank you.

So, I have the following: windows xp DOS version of X-com on cd latest dosbox (v 60) latest xcomutil (9.42) and I can't get it to work. I am able to run x-com smoothly directly from the cd in dosbox (using ufocd.bat) - and yes, it's got that awesome 486 speed. I am also able to run x-com from the hard drive using xcomutil without dosbox, but the sound is distorted and the speed is of course hideously fast. When I try to run it from the hard drive using dosbox, no luck. I don't think I'm making any of the obvious mistakes - I've got it mounted properly, cycles are set sky-high, etc. But I get a totally black screen. No sound. No text. No interface of any kind. Same results windowed or full screen. To paraphrase Bret Easton Ellis, X-com simply... is... not... there. Does anyone have an idea of what I'm doing wrong?