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[Patrunjelu]

this game rulez

[thatmexicanguy]

Loved this game. I remember playing it when I was little, and the first time that monster jumped thru the window in the beginning scared the crap out of me... still kinda' does, actually, LOL.

[Juntread]

Hi there, So glad i can finaly solve the game's puzzle like 13 years later
I'm trying to make the game work with sound..had to0 install it in dos version, with the wicked off graphics with no correct text wrote anywere in the installer....Koz if i install it with windows the game will say no cd and stuff....But here my problem, i cant get no sound at all, the game runs perfectly but when i activate sound it freeze the character after half a step forward...and make no sound anyway...
I tried to make the sound be activated with the dos installer but it makes no changes...
I've got a soundblaster X-fi e-pro.
I tried using dosbox too, but i canot set a mounted drive as when i press the backslash it makes like if i pressed enter on a texter...goes to the other line....frickin wicked....And i cannot get it to run the game by drag-and-drop like told earlier in the whole tchat here in the forum........it makes a (/) cursor..LOL..by the way dos is so frickin complicatred...even more when its emulated :tai:
im under Xp....Soon under vista if i can get some 512mb 266mhz ddr ram at a so cheap price that ill just stay silant....(wicked, the board canot use 400mhz ddr ram)
i just whish i could hear teh vinyl with the gramophone...and feel the ambiance a bit more...:P
Thats all...just whish someone has the Right answer
(too great...im almost not scared anymore of that game..all these years after its release)

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Oh noooooo there comes the worst thing that could ever happens with the game; a bug.
It happened at the whole beginning when going down the first stairs and it happens again so near to the end
The character goes in the tunel behind the barrels in the whine cellar and when it shows the worm hole scene, the character turns back and goes back uin the hole...Whatever how many times i try to pass throught again, whatever if i quickly press the up arrow so it doesnt interferes...or change action..equip any objects...the character just goes through, stand, turn and return in the cellar room.....What can i do then.....Atari/Infogram should realy make a redesing of that game...with new graphics made out of the old drawings with a little enhencement...new characters...a bit more text in the books...mayby more books....and a bug correction..hahaha...seriously, this game is fameous.....but so dissapointing falling on such a bug so near to teh finale:P

[The Fifth Horseman]

As for DosBox: You can set drive mounting in dosbox.conf, so you won't have to type it in manually. (for exact how to, read your readme)

As to the backslash/enter issue, are you using a non-english keyboard layout? Try switching to UK or US layout and see if that helps.

[Juntread]

An english kn layout huh......oooh well:P
Finaly beaten the game...The trick with the dead men's tree is realy easy, kill the green slug as many times it comes to disturb you, (after putting the talisman in place of course)
when you're quiet, light the lantern, save, throw it...you need to be the most near to the tree to be able to reach it....then it turns red, you die....try again, fire, tripple the up arrow like a drum and escape.....as teh run key is way hard to make work...you might have to do it many times..also if your health is low .. dont even think about makin it in one piece...:P
the bone-head car driver scared me for a second haha:P

Okay, maybe I'm stupid or something, and I probably am, but I can't even get the into the game. Sort of.
Okay, so Dos works on this computer. I've unzipped and all that. I open the game. I go, new game and it asks me for two items on page X of the manual. I downloaded the manual but there is no page that high and no item pictures in there.
Am I stupid or is this a trick?

[The Fifth Horseman]

The game should be already cracked. Try:
a) confirming without entering anything
b) confirming with entering a random sequence

Okay so what happens is I choose any random ones and it goes to the choose character screen. After I choose my character it goes into another screen (presumably the introduction) and nothing happens. I can see something at the end of the road which looks like it should be doing something.
No writing pops up, I can't use my mouse or type.

Do you just have to be patient?

[The Fifth Horseman]

You're not trying to run the game in Windows, are you?

[Mousazz]

Everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!


I had a H.P. Lovecraft game called "Call of Cthulhu". it's modern game (better graphics than half-life 2), BUT IT WAS MADE BY "H.P. Lovecraft". CAN YOU BELIEVE IT. After this game, i don't think any kind of another modern game, or dos H.P. Lovecraft games. it's the game that gave my the creeps, but not effects (Call of Cthulhu feels like the enemies would be right outside your door, and you are getting away from them). bad thing i deleted it .
Then i started Call of Cthulhu, i think i was playing at living room, lights on. however, it still gave me creeps, as you can think every shot would kill you (i was on easiest setting) but it never did. also, you can think enemies would be right outside your window, and would kill you anytime you play.
sorry i was . to say truth, Alone in the dark is nothing compared to Call of Cthulhu (bad grafiks, and no need to get spooked) but look at the time! Alone in dark was made at 1992, and Call of Cthulhu, i don't know, maybe 2005. but, for it's time (not so sure ) great.
I don't get it why should you get scared?.. ups!, sorry i never checked Alone in the dark so i don't know about sounds.

sorry i was