Ben

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.

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.

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.

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 ?

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

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.

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)

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 ] = $$$

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.

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.

glad to see this site is still up. ok, i've been wanting to find an editor that allows me to view xcom pck files. The reason being, is because i wan't ..no, need to have all those menu pictures to use as wall paper for my website ( minus the menu bars of course). anyone know of a good editor that will work with xcom ud gold edition? or could the admins put up a wallpaper section.? cheers, Ben good, you had the wall paper. But still, is there a really easy way to view the pck files? i understand they are pasquel pick files?