[Audyssey] Eamon Deluxe, Successful On Windows Vista!
Hey folks, Here's the steps on how I got Eamon Deluxe to work oon Windows Vista. This is method 2 of 3 from the article: Workaround to This System Does Not Support Full Screen Mode in Windows Vista Find the full article at: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/06/27/workaround-to-this-system-does-not-support-full-screen-mode-in-windows-vista/ My own findings will follow: *Text from article starts here* The following steps guide you on how to install the Standard VGA Graphics Adapter in Vista. 1. Right-click on the Windows desktop and then choose Personalize from the pop up contextual menu. 2. Click on Display Settings link from the Personalization dialog window. 3. On the Monitor tab of Display Settings window, click on Advanced Settings. button. 4. If you're not already on the Adapter tab, click on Adapter tab to activate it. Then click on the Properties button under the Adapter Type section. Allow UAC permission request. Properties of Video Adapter 5. On the Display Adapter Properties window, click on Driver tab. 6. Click on Update Driver. button. Then select Browse My Computer for Driver Software option. Browse for Vista driver 7. Click on Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer option. Pick from a list of device drivers 8. Select and highlight Standard VGA Graphics Adapter from the list when prompted to select a device driver you want to install for this hardware, then click on Next. Standard VGA Graphics Adapter 9. Windows Vista will install the new standard VGA video driver to replace the original driver for your graphics accelerator. If your monitor goes blank (no signal), wait five minutes, then power down your computer and restart it normally. If your monitor does not go blank, wait while the driver is installed. 10. Click on Close or OK button on all dialog boxes repetitively until you're back to the desktop or your computer restarted. 11. Restart your computer if you're not prompted and have not already done so. Once computer rebooted, you should be able to open programs or command prompt shell in full screen window. You may need to set the resolution again, as everything related to display settings is likely to be reset. If you want to reverse this procedure and install back the video display card's manufacturer driver, follow the same instructions again, but choose the option to let Windows automatically install the appropriate software for your system instead of browsing your computer for driver software. If you unable to do so by clicking on Properties button on Adapter tab, go to Device Manager and directly select Update Driver Software on right click context menu. *text from article ends here* Once I started my vista machine, It beeped at me! No worries however... Just power off your machine, then press enter twice, and you'll get back to your Windows Environment. I'll be sending this info off to the developer of Eamon Deluxe, and will also be adding this info to the Eamon V I P web site (still in beta,) and will be working on that for most of the day. Take care all! Trenton --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Eamon Deluxe, Successful On Windows Vista!
hmmm I wouldn't change drivers, what does it do to screenreaders, at any rate I wouldn't go mangling your systtem just for one game. It does make sence though old dos qbasic only supported standard ega, vga, mono and cga screens. It makes me wander why they still used dos for this game, really they should use windows console at least. At 06:51 a.m. 17/11/2008, you wrote: Hey folks, Here's the steps on how I got Eamon Deluxe to work oon Windows Vista. This is method 2 of 3 from the article: Workaround to This System Does Not Support Full Screen Mode in Windows Vista Find the full article at: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/06/27/workaround-to-this-system-does-not-support-full-screen-mode-in-windows-vista/ My own findings will follow: *Text from article starts here* The following steps guide you on how to install the Standard VGA Graphics Adapter in Vista. 1. Right-click on the Windows desktop and then choose Personalize from the pop up contextual menu. 2. Click on Display Settings link from the Personalization dialog window. 3. On the Monitor tab of Display Settings window, click on Advanced Settings. button. 4. If you're not already on the Adapter tab, click on Adapter tab to activate it. Then click on the Properties button under the Adapter Type section. Allow UAC permission request. Properties of Video Adapter 5. On the Display Adapter Properties window, click on Driver tab. 6. Click on Update Driver. button. Then select Browse My Computer for Driver Software option. Browse for Vista driver 7. Click on Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer option. Pick from a list of device drivers 8. Select and highlight Standard VGA Graphics Adapter from the list when prompted to select a device driver you want to install for this hardware, then click on Next. Standard VGA Graphics Adapter 9. Windows Vista will install the new standard VGA video driver to replace the original driver for your graphics accelerator. If your monitor goes blank (no signal), wait five minutes, then power down your computer and restart it normally. If your monitor does not go blank, wait while the driver is installed. 10. Click on Close or OK button on all dialog boxes repetitively until you're back to the desktop or your computer restarted. 11. Restart your computer if you're not prompted and have not already done so. Once computer rebooted, you should be able to open programs or command prompt shell in full screen window. You may need to set the resolution again, as everything related to display settings is likely to be reset. If you want to reverse this procedure and install back the video display card's manufacturer driver, follow the same instructions again, but choose the option to let Windows automatically install the appropriate software for your system instead of browsing your computer for driver software. If you unable to do so by clicking on Properties button on Adapter tab, go to Device Manager and directly select Update Driver Software on right click context menu. *text from article ends here* Once I started my vista machine, It beeped at me! No worries however... Just power off your machine, then press enter twice, and you'll get back to your Windows Environment. I'll be sending this info off to the developer of Eamon Deluxe, and will also be adding this info to the Eamon V I P web site (still in beta,) and will be working on that for most of the day. Take care all! Trenton --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Eamon Deluxe, Successful On Windows Vista!
All it does, is it will reset your display settings back to 800 by 600, however you can jump back to the settings you wish by visiting the control panel. And sadly, this has to be done for any older DOS program that uses the command.com service. The only other option besides that one, is using DosBox from: http://www.dosbox.com/-- which by the way, I have never used. Hope this clears up everything. From: shaun everiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 10:56 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Eamon Deluxe, Successful On Windows Vista! hmmm I wouldn't change drivers, what does it do to screenreaders, at any rate I wouldn't go mangling your systtem just for one game. It does make sence though old dos qbasic only supported standard ega, vga, mono and cga screens. It makes me wander why they still used dos for this game, really they should use windows console at least. At 06:51 a.m. 17/11/2008, you wrote: Hey folks, Here's the steps on how I got Eamon Deluxe to work oon Windows Vista. This is method 2 of 3 from the article: Workaround to This System Does Not Support Full Screen Mode in Windows Vista Find the full article at: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/06/27/workaround-to-this-system-does-not-support-full-screen-mode-in-windows-vista/ My own findings will follow: *Text from article starts here* The following steps guide you on how to install the Standard VGA Graphics Adapter in Vista. 1. Right-click on the Windows desktop and then choose Personalize from the pop up contextual menu. 2. Click on Display Settings link from the Personalization dialog window. 3. On the Monitor tab of Display Settings window, click on Advanced Settings. button. 4. If you're not already on the Adapter tab, click on Adapter tab to activate it. Then click on the Properties button under the Adapter Type section. Allow UAC permission request. Properties of Video Adapter 5. On the Display Adapter Properties window, click on Driver tab. 6. Click on Update Driver. button. Then select Browse My Computer for Driver Software option. Browse for Vista driver 7. Click on Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer option. Pick from a list of device drivers 8. Select and highlight Standard VGA Graphics Adapter from the list when prompted to select a device driver you want to install for this hardware, then click on Next. Standard VGA Graphics Adapter 9. Windows Vista will install the new standard VGA video driver to replace the original driver for your graphics accelerator. If your monitor goes blank (no signal), wait five minutes, then power down your computer and restart it normally. If your monitor does not go blank, wait while the driver is installed. 10. Click on Close or OK button on all dialog boxes repetitively until you're back to the desktop or your computer restarted. 11. Restart your computer if you're not prompted and have not already done so. Once computer rebooted, you should be able to open programs or command prompt shell in full screen window. You may need to set the resolution again, as everything related to display settings is likely to be reset. If you want to reverse this procedure and install back the video display card's manufacturer driver, follow the same instructions again, but choose the option to let Windows automatically install the appropriate software for your system instead of browsing your computer for driver software. If you unable to do so by clicking on Properties button on Adapter tab, go to Device Manager and directly select Update Driver Software on right click context menu. *text from article ends here* Once I started my vista machine, It beeped at me! No worries however... Just power off your machine, then press enter twice, and you'll get back to your Windows Environment. I'll be sending this info off to the developer of Eamon Deluxe, and will also be adding this info to the Eamon V I P web site (still in beta,) and will be working on that for most of the day. Take care all! Trenton --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management
Re: [Audyssey] Eamon Deluxe, Successful On Windows Vista!
Hi trenton. while I have no problems running Eamon Delux on my Xp machine, i do however have one issue you might be able to help me with. YFor some odd reason, hal cannot interact with the Eamon text when running in full screen mode, so it's necessary to play in a window. this is absolutely fine, accept that the ends of a couple of lines get cut off the right side of the window. i've tried all ways I can think of, playing with the font, playing with the window size, playing with the text buffering, but whatever i do, a couple of words are stil missing from the ends of long lines in the eamon text. Sinse you mention running the game on a window in Vista, i wondered if you'd come up against the same issue, and could perhaps give advice, sinse apart from this everything is fine. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Eamon Deluxe, Successful On Windows Vista!
What's even weirder is I still get the blank screen on the installer running xp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dark Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 12:32 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Eamon Deluxe, Successful On Windows Vista! Hi trenton. while I have no problems running Eamon Delux on my Xp machine, i do however have one issue you might be able to help me with. YFor some odd reason, hal cannot interact with the Eamon text when running in full screen mode, so it's necessary to play in a window. this is absolutely fine, accept that the ends of a couple of lines get cut off the right side of the window. i've tried all ways I can think of, playing with the font, playing with the window size, playing with the text buffering, but whatever i do, a couple of words are stil missing from the ends of long lines in the eamon text. Sinse you mention running the game on a window in Vista, i wondered if you'd come up against the same issue, and could perhaps give advice, sinse apart from this everything is fine. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Eamon Deluxe, Successful On Windows Vista!
Hello dark, The installer does work with the instructions I gave out earlier, and as I said, they worked successfully, however at least on my vista machine, the installer for some reason will not read for my sake. Window-eyes and NVDA will not read it, neither will system access do to the graphic on the screen I think. I wonder if there is a way to bypass the screen, and just have it automattically install. -- From: dark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 11:31 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Eamon Deluxe, Successful On Windows Vista! Hi trenton. while I have no problems running Eamon Delux on my Xp machine, i do however have one issue you might be able to help me with. YFor some odd reason, hal cannot interact with the Eamon text when running in full screen mode, so it's necessary to play in a window. this is absolutely fine, accept that the ends of a couple of lines get cut off the right side of the window. i've tried all ways I can think of, playing with the font, playing with the window size, playing with the text buffering, but whatever i do, a couple of words are stil missing from the ends of long lines in the eamon text. Sinse you mention running the game on a window in Vista, i wondered if you'd come up against the same issue, and could perhaps give advice, sinse apart from this everything is fine. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Eamon Deluxe, Successful On Windows Vista!
Follow Up for dark! I'm able to bring up the installer more easily by typping in command instead of cmd, as it seems to work better for it. Let ya know the results, and I'll get the answer to your question as well. -- From: dark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 11:31 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Eamon Deluxe, Successful On Windows Vista! Hi trenton. while I have no problems running Eamon Delux on my Xp machine, i do however have one issue you might be able to help me with. YFor some odd reason, hal cannot interact with the Eamon text when running in full screen mode, so it's necessary to play in a window. this is absolutely fine, accept that the ends of a couple of lines get cut off the right side of the window. i've tried all ways I can think of, playing with the font, playing with the window size, playing with the text buffering, but whatever i do, a couple of words are stil missing from the ends of long lines in the eamon text. Sinse you mention running the game on a window in Vista, i wondered if you'd come up against the same issue, and could perhaps give advice, sinse apart from this everything is fine. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Eamon Deluxe, Successful On Windows Vista!
ok, I was finally able to run it. However, its going quite slow. And so far, the only way to read the text is to alt-tab back to the window. everytime you type in a command. still working with it myself. I'll let ya know if I come up with an easy solution here. -- From: dark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 11:31 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Eamon Deluxe, Successful On Windows Vista! Hi trenton. while I have no problems running Eamon Delux on my Xp machine, i do however have one issue you might be able to help me with. YFor some odd reason, hal cannot interact with the Eamon text when running in full screen mode, so it's necessary to play in a window. this is absolutely fine, accept that the ends of a couple of lines get cut off the right side of the window. i've tried all ways I can think of, playing with the font, playing with the window size, playing with the text buffering, but whatever i do, a couple of words are stil missing from the ends of long lines in the eamon text. Sinse you mention running the game on a window in Vista, i wondered if you'd come up against the same issue, and could perhaps give advice, sinse apart from this everything is fine. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Eamon Deluxe, Successful On Windows Vista!
Hi Trenton. Hmmm that's odd. I find once I press alt enter to return from fullscreen to window, things are fine apart from the cutting off text issue I mentioned. this is just running the Eamon.bat file by pressing enter on it in windows explorer, not trying to run directly from the command prompt (I can't actually remember how to get the command prompt up anyway in windows xp, ;D). when going to, or exiting from the main hall, ie, whenever the first main menue appears, the game goes back to running fulscreen , so it's necessary to prrress alt enter again, --- but this isn't a problem. I've been considdering putting together an E-mail for the Eamon delux dev, requesting some vi related changes. thus far I've got the following: 1: Ability to set the game to display text correctly in a window so as to work with hal. 2: use of greater than sign as menue marker as an alternative to the text highlighting that's currently used. 3: illimination of flashing text on first startup screen. I know a full windows port would be nice, but my feeling is the fewer changes we ask for, the more likely to get things fixed we are. it'd be really good if we could get Eamon working though, sinse some of the games look interesting, and I like the idea of a more violent, hack and slash type of text adventure to play from time to time. Beware the Grue! dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Audyssey] Eamon Deluxe, Successful On Windows Vista!
I've been using the eamondx.bat file instead of the eamon.bat file. I wonder if there's a big difference between the two. -- From: dark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 3:35 PM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Eamon Deluxe, Successful On Windows Vista! Hi Trenton. Hmmm that's odd. I find once I press alt enter to return from fullscreen to window, things are fine apart from the cutting off text issue I mentioned. this is just running the Eamon.bat file by pressing enter on it in windows explorer, not trying to run directly from the command prompt (I can't actually remember how to get the command prompt up anyway in windows xp, ;D). when going to, or exiting from the main hall, ie, whenever the first main menue appears, the game goes back to running fulscreen , so it's necessary to prrress alt enter again, --- but this isn't a problem. I've been considdering putting together an E-mail for the Eamon delux dev, requesting some vi related changes. thus far I've got the following: 1: Ability to set the game to display text correctly in a window so as to work with hal. 2: use of greater than sign as menue marker as an alternative to the text highlighting that's currently used. 3: illimination of flashing text on first startup screen. I know a full windows port would be nice, but my feeling is the fewer changes we ask for, the more likely to get things fixed we are. it'd be really good if we could get Eamon working though, sinse some of the games look interesting, and I like the idea of a more violent, hack and slash type of text adventure to play from time to time. Beware the Grue! dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
