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[The Fifth Horseman]

Yes and no.
Far as I know, the original source has not been released.
Something approaching it could, however, be recreated by disassembling the game executable.

I think that we can play ignition by internet with logmein-hamachi. Do anyone want to play?

[_r.u.s.s.]

i tried it with my friends once.. didn't work =/

Originally Posted by _r.u.s.s.

i tried it with my friends once.. didn't work =/

Hi Russ, Does the file Ign_3dfx.exe works on your computer? If it does, then I think that we can play online.

In my computer it works perfectly, so I can choose the multiplayer net option, then choose the conection tcp/ip or something like that (is the fourth option), and at the end I can create the race online. And then with the Logmein-hamachi IP you can look for this race and join it.

If you want we can try to play one day soon.

[Dea85]

Originally Posted by dosraider

-> dosbox.
http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=22241


FYI: works also fine in dosbox 0.74

Hi!
I played this game a lot back in the days, and wanted to start playing again. I'm using windows 7 ultimate 64-bits and dosbox 0.74. In my config file ive made some changes to my resolution and fullscreen, changed aspect to true, cycles=10000, cycleup=1000 and cycledown=1000.

However, when i try to launch maindos, it just fades to black and nothing happens

What am i doing wrong here? WOuld be very grateful for any help.

Best regards, Andreas

[dosraider]

Originally Posted by dosraider

Simply mount your CD drive as D:\ in dosbox with whatever CD in it and run the game with
maindos
from the game directory.
No probs here......

It apparently won't run if you don't mount a CD .....

...did you?

If yes, a bit more details on how exactly you run the game could be helpful.
(mount lines, inputs ....)

Did someone have problems on win7 as well as me ?
When I tried to run the game(clicking ign_win.exe or sth like this) the black screen showed up and then it disappered. No game was running, neither any process. It looked like the game was starting, then turned off itself, before being fully loaded.
It had worked on my old PC.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Compatibility modes. Failing that, MS Virtual PC with a copy of Windows 95. Failing that, DOSBox and run the game in its' DOS mode.

[alexxboij]

So i have been trying and failing for sooo many hours now.. I am very confused on what to do here.. I tried downloading Virtual PC and run dosbox in there, i've run dosbox in WIN7, and when i think i finally made it, dosbox tells me that i cant run the game in dos mode. And when i try to run the ign_win nothing pops up. I would really appreciate if someone reached out and helped me with this.

EDIT: I got it working, this post helped me out to get it working! just mounted c and d and it works..

[aperture]

Do you want to play Ignition on Windows 7 (x86 or x64), but have always been annoyed with menus where you can actually see a darn thing?

If that's the case, then I have a patch for you!

Long story short, there are 3 problems where trying to run this game on Windows 7:

1. Microsoft removed the 320x200 resolution from DirectDraw on Windows 7, and Ignitions menu are 320x200
2. You get a psychedelic colour palette during gameplay
3. Anything that is not gameplay, such as the menus and intro, doesn't display (black screen)

Oh, and other minor inconveniences include menu SFXs only working if you have a CD, as well as the Windowed mode, which seems to be included in the executable (runtime address 00493728, IGN_WIN.EXE address 00091D28: 1 = fullscreen, 0 = windowed) not working at all, be it on 7 or even on XP, where fullscreen does work without the need to patch.

The following patch addresses issue #1 & #2: ignition_win7_patch_v2.7z

Once applied and provided you launch the game from the batch file and can figure out the menu navigation (Enter, Esc, Enter, Enter, Enter if you want to play), you will be able to run the game fullscreen, in glorious 800x600.

Now for some more details:
- The patch includes an IGN_WIN.BTZ, which is the file that stores the configuration settings. Unlike the one from the archive provided here, it has 800x600 selected by default. Oh, and it also defaults to the bus, because I like the bus
- The original IGN_WIN.EXE performs 2 fullscreen resolution checks when it launches: 640x480 and 320x200, and will bail out if ANY of these fails. This is done by calling DirectDraw's lpdd->SetDisplayMode() from the routine @ address 0045BD70, which is called indirectly from 00417EA0, using 004BA6E0, 004BA6E4 and 004BA6E8 for the requested width, height and bpp attributes. Unfortunately for us, Microsoft, in their great wisdom, decided to ditched 320x200 support from the latest ddraw.dll, which results in SetDisplayMode() returning errorcode 0x80004001 (Not Implemented).
Our quick and dirty patch then is to replace all 320x200 references with 640x480, which is still supported. This doesn't solve the other issues, but at least, if you really want to play, and don't mind the other issues, you can.
- The problem with the psychedelic colour palette for 256 colour games is highlighted here. Basically, Windows 7 keeps the taskbar on top, even in fullscreen mode, which screws up the colour palette. The trick is to launch the game from a batch, file that disables the taskbar

Finally, for the love of God, do NOT enable mipmapping and persp. poly from the GFX settings on Windows, unless you like to see game crashes. Without that, the game runs great.

Oh, and I would just love to see an updated Open Source version of Ignition, for various platforms. This game seriously rocks.

EDIT: v2, with a batch file to fix the colour palette during game. If this doesn't work, you can try the various tips from: Starcraft on Win7.