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** Impressions so far ** - 12/31/2010 2:43:17 PM

JRyan

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Been out of the loop for a while, seen this and bought immediately.
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WoW! All these old harpoon classic games are a treat! I own a good bit of them but have never been able to even open them. Whoever came up with the DosBox addition deserves a kudos! That is really neat! I wonder if H2AE would work in this manner? I doubt I would play it as H3ANW is MUCH better, but still. I actually think this addition was brilliant. I can even get in the DB descriptions etc.

I am glad I made this purchase, now I can use the Harpoon Battlebook again.

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This is a rather strange question, but I have forgot how exactly to play ANW with a laptop. I know that was addressed but I can not seem to find it....Any ideas? No Numpad on laptop per se.

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One small issue, the install does not let me choose what drive to install to. This might be an issue that I can fix as I want it on a data drive etc. I will move after installation and see what happens.

Likes so far, the manual updates. :) Nice Job

Edit: Well I take that back Harpoon Classic did allow me to choose the install folder.....
Edit2: OK, now it IS letting me install 3.10 on another drive....I guess it was the old items that defaulted to C:
Edit3: Ok I was FOS. It just installed the install files and then deleted when done. My bad, my C drive is safe :)
Installation went smooth, just had me confused for a little bit.

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< Message edited by JRyan -- 1/2/2011 4:52:30 AM >

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RE: ** Impressions so far ** - 1/3/2011 11:41:18 PM

JRyan

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Well another update, I had a 'Windows restore' Event and had to reinstall things (not Harpoon related!). I had thought I caught it and told H3 3.63 to install on F: drive but it installed on C: instead. No biggie except for a couple of things.

1st - That file is SO huge, it takes a very long time to extract and then install. I had started at 11pm and got up a couple of times through the night and checked it. So 3.63 installed to C:, this could very well be me that hosed it.

2nd - Now the good part. After many years of Harpoon.ini file adjustments etc, I actually knew how to 'move' the program. Worked like a top! The newer versions are so much more user friendly etc. Kudos to that. Well off to DL the DB2000 and the battlesets.

Cheers - Verdict? Even if you already own HCE and H3ANW, this is a great buy, the old Harpoon Classic files did it for me, that was a TREAT!

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