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[Machiavelli]

Originally Posted by Scatty

Hmm, are you sure you actually have Fate of Atlantis and not Last Crusade? Indiana Jones - Fate of Atlantis only runs in VGA mode (320x200, 256 colors) as much as I know. Or maybe there's some incompatibility problem between DosBox and your computer.

Yes, the box is quiet clear that it is FoA, though I have Last Crusade too.

Originally Posted by The Fifth Horseman

Distorted in what way, exactly?

Just the character models look a little too pixilated. The back of the box shows better screenshots and I can't remember what the game looked like when I played it when it came out. Maybe it is the resolution thing.

Originally Posted by Kippesoep

While Indy 4 can run in EGA mode (try it out by starting with "ATLANTIS E" -- type "ATLANTIS ?" to get a list of command line options), by default it'll run in VGA mode.

Copying the folder to the hard drive is not a good way to install.

Since I have the talkie version too, I just tried installing it and here's what I did:

mount c d:\oldstuff
mount d z:\ -t cdrom
d:
atlantis

(I have a folder called "oldstuff" on my D drive and my CD-ROM drive is Z in Windows). The above commands then start the installation procedure. Use the arrow keys to move the cursor down to "Sound Blaster & Compatibles / Adlib" and press Enter. Then move the cursor right to "Sound Blaster & Compatibles" and press Enter again. Accept the default port 220 (enter), IRQ 7 (enter). The press Escape and Y to save settings. In the menu that appears, press Enter to start the game.

If you later want to play the game again, just repeat the above commands (the game will then start immediately after typing "atlantis", as the configuration has been saved).

Will doing this install lose my saved games?

[The Fifth Horseman]

Will doing this install lose my saved games?

Just copy your save files elsewhere and then copy them back into the directory. They should work just fine.

Just the character models look a little too pixilated. The back of the box shows better screenshots and I can't remember what the game looked like when I played it when it came out. Maybe it is the resolution thing.

Screenshot from the game, please. In DOSBox, CTRL+F5 saves a screenshot in the Capture subdirectory of whatever dir DOSBox has been installed to.

[Kippesoep]

Originally Posted by Machiavelli

Will doing this install lose my saved games?

The game creates a folder (in my example: D:\OLDSTUFF\FATE). Copy your SAVEGAME.* files into that and you can use those.

[Scatty]

Originally Posted by Machiavelli

Just the character models look a little too pixilated. The back of the box shows better screenshots and I can't remember what the game looked like when I played it when it came out. Maybe it is the resolution thing.

Well, don't forget that the shots on the box are much smaller than how the game looks on the monitor. Of course, since the screenshots, compared by that, are in higher "resolution" on the box, you can't see the pixels as good as on the normal stretched out display of the game on the monitor, where they're larger and approach the eye more apparent.

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Sorry for double posts, thought I could edit original. I'll also have to say that the bottom part of the screen, about 2-3 inches is black and I can't get to it with my mouse.

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Doesn't look like I know how to post good SS...

But anyway, I'll try to describe what it looks like. Basically, Sophia's face is a single blue dot, for her eye. IDK, Last Crusade looked better. Like I said, I can't really remember how it "used" to look.

Thanks for everyone's help. I'll probably be posting more about other games soon enough.

[Scatty]

Maybe this will help. Open the file dosbox.conf with Notepad, under [render] change the aspect=false to aspect=true.
That will stretch the resolution to it's original size, if your graphics card supports it.