WC Prophecy on a laptop?

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RageFury32

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Hi guys. First post here.

I own a rather small, one spindle laptop (Thinkpad 240) that I use for WC Prophecy, and the machine has only PCMCIA/USB CDROM support. I’m not crazy enough to carry a CDROM drive around when I am hammering down the Kilrathis and the bugs. Is there a way to patch Prophecy so it can load the movies and such from the hard drive instead?
Also, I am aware that there is a High resolution patch for WCP that allows you to run the game beyond the default 640x480@16bpp resolution. Can I get the patch to work for software mode? I would prefer to run the game on the LCD’s native resolution.

BTW, I prefer WCP without the Gameboy Advance. Why have the spam when the porterhouse steak is readily available?
 
WCP GBA is a much better solution unless you're really on long extended train journeys.

Anyway to answer your question HCl opted not to add increased resoloution and color depth to software mode as he as well as the testers believed it was not widley enough used to make it worthwhile.
 
In regards to copying the CDs.. there are third party programs that make a simulated drive. You can set those up so that a subdirectory on your computer with the contents of CD1 is treated as E drive, CD2 as F drive and so on.
 
an extention of what Chris was talkin'
dl clonecd
make an image of each cd, ie "copy to image"
then get deamon tools
mount the images as virtual cd drives in windows.
then run from the virtual cdrom.
but beware, thats about 1.8 gig's of space....

post back for more questions
 
Well, I was hoping for software mode enhanced resolution support since I intend to run this on a laptop with no 3D acceleration. However, since it's rarely used I just I can drop that idea. Anyways, is there a better solution besides simply mapping virtual drives or to clonecd it?
 
Originally posted by Pedro
WCP GBA is a much better solution unless you're really on long extended train journeys.
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Heh, not a chance. I haven't seen WCP GBA yet (according to EB, it'll be here this friday, yay!), but no matter how good it is, it still can't beat the PC version. Except in multiplayer capabilities, of course.


As for WCP without a CD, it should, I believe, be easy enough to alter it so that it runs without any CDs at all. You'd have to copy all of it onto the hard drive, and then some files would need altering... the EXE, cdlayout.iff, maybe a config file or two. I'll look into it.

BTW, your laptop hasn't even got Direct3D support?
 
Originally posted by Quarto
Heh, not a chance. I haven't seen WCP GBA yet (according to EB, it'll be here this friday, yay!), but no matter how good it is, it still can't beat the PC version. Except in multiplayer capabilities, of course.
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Well we are talking about portable WC and unless you want to lug around your laptop and joysticks (how do you mouse guys do it??) GBA is the better solution.

BTW, how do you play WC on your laptop? I'm useless without my joystick.
 
Oh, well, once you learn to play with the mouse, you never look back.

(but, to be fair, given that I almost never play WCP while actually travelling, I guess I'm not the one to judge the advantages/disadvantages of the GBA version)
 
No. This is a Celeron 300 Thinkpad 240 model. It uses a Neomagic NM2160/MagicMedia 128XD video chip, which has no Direct3D support at all. Laptops did not receive good video until recently (C'mon! The ATi Rage Pro/Mach64 was a lousy 3D chip and everyone knows it, and it's been around since 1999).
Even on my other laptop (Radeon M7 there) I would prefer something better, like Freelancer or Starlancer.

And no, I don't need a joystick. I wiped out the Kilrathis in WC3 using a Toshiba Satellite with the keyboard alone. And with the weird, not reconfigurable bindings playing it with a PS2 controller is not an option. Mouse? Nope. This is a Thinkpad with a touchpoint.

Well, I guess the only way to get WCP to work is to grab the warez kiddie version and then modify it so I can get all the movies and briefing videos back.

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Anyways, it's not bulky at all. My laptop is only around the size of a stack of looseleaf paper. I can easily put WCP on my laptop and smoke some bugs on the subway. I already took out the Stroggs in Quake 2. The problem is that I currently need to have the PCMCIA CDROM drive next to me to do that. Quake 2 I can patch, but WCP is a completely different animal.

With that in mind, I should give WC4 a try on my P133 Thinkpad 560. That baby runs Win95.
 
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