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Well, if u manage it to rule 2/3 of galaxy, it is better to end the game, simply cuz they didn´t got any chance

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Originally posted by laiocfar@Nov 9 2005, 05:13 PM
The thing that i hate of Alpha Centari was the graphic of the guy who carry a cart with a laser over it. I can´t explain why but i hate the guy with the cart. :angry:

Yes, I agree... Beside the harmful graphic of Alpha Cen (I usualy confused when looking at the terrain of the planet) is the music... both can kill all your nerve!! :sick: espacialy the sound in that game. I always turn it off when play it... (If not, I can only play it for 2-3 hours NO MORE)

Ascendary has good graphic and good sound that encourages me to play long time enough (though, just advance only 10-20 years)

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The thing I disliked in Ascendancy, beside the poor AI, is the 2/3 of the galaxy rule, or whatever it is. You are kicking behind and taking names, and then because you colonize one too many planets, suddenly the game is over and you've won. I want to be able to make use of that new planet and go on to anhiliate the rest!

Unlike SID's Mier's game that has configuration to modify the rule fo the game make this left no option fo victory to player. That why I can't play it agian again........ :yawn: (Imagine what you have to face with every time you play it)

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Originally posted by Petter1979@Oct 30 2005, 10:40 AM
I have another good suggestion, this is about mouse speed in dosgames, if the mouse speed in ascendancy for example is slow you can use a program mousectl.com to speed it up.

you need to create a bat file in the ascendancy directory, called ex: ascend.bat

then you copy this following text into it:

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@echo off
mousectl.com 5,6,7,8,10,10,10,10
ascend.exe

Mousectl.com program needs 8 values seperated by a comma.
Some suggestions for speeds:
5,6,10,15,15,15,15,15
5,6,7,8,10,10,10,10

If you have the game without any of the 2 patches, you have ascend.exe after mousectl.com in the .bat file.
If you have the antagonizer patch, you replace ascend.exe
with antag.exe or if you have the maintenance patch, you replace ascend.exe with
patch.exe
If you are using VDMSound, you just rightclick on the .bat file you have created, and chose:
"Run with VDMS"

you can get the program mousectl.com from here: http://www.ufo-x.com/file/mousectl.zip
unzip the file into the ascendancy directory.

How do I create a .bat file?

Create a text file with notepad, then rename it to bat.

Is this still available for download? The link doesn't appear to work. I bought this years ago, but can't find the software anymore. I'd love to play it again.

Aah..disregard. The site just apparently doesn't like the firefox browser. Worked fine with IE ;)

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Originally posted by Guest@Nov 14 2005, 12:03 PM
Aah..disregard. The site just apparently doesn't like the firefox browser. Worked fine with IE ;)

It works fine with Firefox, actually, but we were having server problems earlier today. Maybe that's why the download wasn't working for you.

Could be. I was able to download it without issue. Do I actually have to go and hunt for the Dos drivers for the audio setup, or is there a workaround for XP?

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Originally posted by Guest@Nov 14 2005, 12:56 PM
Could be. I was able to download it without issue. Do I actually have to go and hunt for the Dos drivers for the audio setup, or is there a workaround for XP?

As I recall, DOSbox simulates old AdLib sound on its own. I'm using WinXP, and though its scratchy, the sound is still pretty good.

The game will run on XP, at least for me, but it doesn't like my USB mouse - running it in DOSBox works perfectly though.