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Posted July 30, 2009
A few weeks ago, I was talking to someone about PCs and they brought up that they needed a FAT16 drive. I said "Why do you need a FAT16 drive?" with them saying "To play Daggerfall." I said you don't need a FAT16 drive, you use DosBox." with them replying "DosBox doesn't work with Daggerfall." I said "Did you try the new version?" with him stating " No, but it doesn't work in DosBox." I said "It works in the new version" with his reply " But you need hacks to get it to work." I said the new version doesn't need hacks and should work fine." That's the just of conversation and they said that the would try the new version with me not having heard anything since. I thought the conversation was interesting. It also took a bit to convincing to get them to buy Stonekeep on GO which they really wanted to play again.
Posted July 30, 2009
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RocksinBoxes: A few weeks ago, I was talking to someone about PCs and they brought up that they needed a FAT16 drive. I said "Why do you need a FAT16 drive?" with them saying "To play Daggerfall." I said you don't need a FAT16 drive, you use DosBox." with them replying "DosBox doesn't work with Daggerfall." I said "Did you try the new version?" with him stating " No, but it doesn't work in DosBox." I said "It works in the new version" with his reply " But you need hacks to get it to work." I said the new version doesn't need hacks and should work fine." That's the just of conversation and they said that the would try the new version with me not having heard anything since. I thought the conversation was interesting. It also took a bit to convincing to get them to buy Stonekeep on GO which they really wanted to play again.

Yea, there's plenty of people here to help get it working if the person needs it. Very interesting conversation.
Posted July 30, 2009
Come to the GOG IRC channel (irc.quakenet.com #gog) and talk to Qbix about it . He develops DOSBox..
Posted July 30, 2009
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JudasIscariot: Come to the GOG IRC channel (irc.quakenet.com #gog) and talk to Qbix about it . He develops DOSBox..

I think they were able to get it working. I recall it was something about not being able to install it in the old version, and I think I just had to to get them to try the new version. Unless something special had to be to get it working in .73. I should swing by and tell Qbix what an awesome program DosBox is. It has saved me many hours of grief trying to get these Dos games to work on Vista or even XP.
Posted July 30, 2009
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JudasIscariot: Come to the GOG IRC channel (irc.quakenet.com #gog) and talk to Qbix about it . He develops DOSBox..
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RocksinBoxes: I think they were able to get it working. I recall it was something about not being able to install it in the old version, and I think I just had to to get them to try the new version. Unless something special had to be to get it working in .73. I should swing by and tell Qbix what an awesome program DosBox is. It has saved me many hours of grief trying to get these Dos games to work on Vista or even XP.

He may be QbixAway but you can still try to reach him :D
Posted July 30, 2009
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RocksinBoxes: I think they were able to get it working. I recall it was something about not being able to install it in the old version, and I think I just had to to get them to try the new version. Unless something special had to be to get it working in .73. I should swing by and tell Qbix what an awesome program DosBox is. It has saved me many hours of grief trying to get these Dos games to work on Vista or even XP.
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JudasIscariot: He may be QbixAway but you can still try to reach him :D

I will try and do that. Thanks! :)
Posted July 30, 2009
Buh? I even had Daggerfall work in the previous versions, but the last gave me a nice performance boost.
Posted July 30, 2009
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Gragt: Buh? I even had Daggerfall work in the previous versions, but the last gave me a nice performance boost.

Did you have to use any hacks or do anything special to get it work? I read on here that you had to have to use hacks on the old version. I might have been mistaken. I did try Daggerfall on .73. That brings back memories from a while ago.
Posted July 30, 2009
No hack was needed back then, and I think I used one of the 0.6x versions, couldn't tell you which one exactly.
Played the game a bit since it was released for free but it was fine in 0.73 when using the right options.
Posted July 30, 2009
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Gragt: No hack was needed back then, and I think I used one of the 0.6x versions, couldn't tell you which one exactly.
Played the game a bit since it was released for free but it was fine in 0.73 when using the right options.

Thanks for the information. I didn't know it worked 0.6x versions. All I was able to find was people having problems.
Posted July 30, 2009
I think it is anyway, I'm not 100% certain, but I know I used no special hack for the game back then and certainly didn't need to with this version.
Posted July 30, 2009
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Gragt: I think it is anyway, I'm not 100% certain, but I know I used no special hack for the game back then and certainly didn't need to with this version.

I agree. There might have been some misinformation floating around online on whether the game worked or not.
Posted July 30, 2009
Previously, Daggerfall's CD detection wasn't working in DOSBox, so the hack was the only way to play it. Now that it is emulated correctly it's not needed, although you need to mount the CD folder in the correct manner otherwise Daggerfall won't work.
Posted July 30, 2009
I always used DFInstall to get the game install with Z.CFG configured so that the game wouldn't ask for the cd. I do not really consider this as a form of hack.
Posted July 30, 2009
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Gragt: I think it is anyway, I'm not 100% certain, but I know I used no special hack for the game back then and certainly didn't need to with this version.
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RocksinBoxes: I agree. There might have been some misinformation floating around online on whether the game worked or not.

The Z.cfg should look something like this with a little editing in the Dagger folder. I did this a while back because I was having trouble with the CD not being recognized. I heard editing the Z.cfg works without any cracks but I patched it and cracked it just to be safe. The only downside if you want to call it that is your friends have to copy the movies to the HD if they want the movies.
type dfall_huge
path c:\dagger\arena2\
pathcd c:\dagger\arena2\
fadecolor 0
mapfile d
rendergame 1
user 1
startMap 179
region 17
helmet 0
maxSpeed 200
controls betaplyr.dat
maps mapsave.sav
cheatmode 0
If you need any files let me know I'd be happy to e-mail them.
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