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RE: Any news? - 9/4/2006 9:23:05 PM

Chop_Suey

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I was able to install the old games just fine using XP64.

Oh, do tell!! So you loaded them up and they worked just fine

I devote a portion of my online time, everyday, coming here, searching the web, and trying everything I can come up with, to install these games.

So far, nada.

The quest continues...

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RE: Any news? - 9/4/2006 9:54:37 PM

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Every system has its own issues I am sure. Mine is graphics. I can load some games but then the graphics card or perhaps the AMD processor isnt compatible with the software.

I take it you have tried running it in the Compatibility modes? That sometimes worked with XP 32 but not well with XP 64.

I hope you get it fixed. I also hope that the old and new games can play the same .bte file because I dont plan on buying the new games unless they are THAT much better than the old.

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RE: Any news? - 9/6/2006 8:06:06 AM

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Yes, I have tried setting the compatability modes to both WIN 95 & 98. I can get the map editor up, but it doesn't work properly. Niether scenarios nor the other editors will even open. I get either an error message or sent back to the desktop.

I've met a software programmer who works for Valve (Half Life, Day of defeat:Source) that offered some help, but he needs a CD and lives in Canada, so that will take some time before it may bare any fruit.

I'm sure that about the time I finally get this figured out, Matrix will be releasing the new game

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RE: Any news? - 2/8/2007 6:32:14 AM

jchastain

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David -
Let me just be sure I have this correct. The priority is TAOW, then Battleground, then Campaign. So we are likely 2 years away from seeing the rerelease of this title. Is that correct? Clearly I think we were hoping we would see it a lot sooner, but I must say it is far easier to deal with the truth and know this one is out a ways than it is to keep checking back wondering why nothing seems to be happening. Please confirm that intent and thanks for being honest on the priorities.

I don't think anything that David said translates into "two years". My mental fantasy would be the release sometime this summer, say within 4 months.

What about it David? Am I being too optimistic?

Yes you are a lot closer to where I see things going.

David

Hmmmm.... it's been a full year since we first started speculating about the timeline on this one. At the time I really did think my 2 year comment was overly pesimistic, but it is amazing how real life intrudes on things and make the absurd into reality. So, where are we? Have we made any real progress over the last year? And do we have a better idea of what the timeline might actually look like?

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RE: Any news? - 2/9/2007 3:39:28 PM

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No matter how often it reoccurs, I am always amazed at how many times folks look to these forums for release date predictions only. Most folks with enough interest in the games to participate in the forums have at lease some idea of how complex the task of bringing a title to market is, yet some still hammer everyone from project managers to playtesters to "do them an favor" and make a best guess and then turn the "favor" around to beat them over the head. Come on fellow players - get a grip.

This forum has supplied tons of information on the progress of this project over the year. It has provided a effective conduit for player input into the project and is consistently leveraged as a tool that both informs interested gamers and contributes to the overall quality of the project. Prognostication is just icing on the cake that most serious gamers enjoy with their morning grain of salt.

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RE: Any news? - 2/11/2007 9:31:06 PM

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No matter how often it reoccurs, I am always amazed at how many times folks look to these forums for release date predictions only.� Most folks with enough interest in the games to participate in the forums have at lease some idea of how complex the task of bringing a title to market is, yet some still hammer everyone from project managers to playtesters to "do them an favor" and make a best guess and then turn the "favor" around to beat them over the head.� Come on fellow players - get a grip.

This forum has supplied tons of information on the progress of this project over the year.� It has provided a effective�conduit for player input into the project and is consistently leveraged as a tool that both informs interested gamers and contributes to the overall quality of the project.� Prognostication is just icing on the cake that most serious gamers enjoy with their morning grain of salt.

While I agree that it is unproductive to "beat them over the head", I do not think it is unreasonable to ask about the progress of an announced title. When you announce you are producing something, the logical question that will follow is "when will it be available"? When Intel announced a new CPU, that question arises. When Microsoft announces a new operating system, they get that question. If the United States government were to announce a new national park, you can bet your last dollar that some reporter will ask when it was expected to open. Any half competent business knows that when you announce something, people will ask for target availability dates. So I cannot accept that it is unreasonable for us to ask the same thing of an announced game - the true oddity would be if we didn't ask.

And I also accept that things change. It is the nature of the beast. But again, when it is obvious that things have changed I think it is reasonable to request an update. There was a suggestion (certainly not a commitment but rather a very rough projection) that it might take in the neighborhood of 4 months and it has been more than double that and nearly triple that. I can't believe that it is unreasonable to ask for an update. It gets back to the first point, when you have an announced product on the horizon it shouldn't be a surprise that there are questions regarding its progress and requests for updates on timelines - especially when it becomes evident that previous comments will not come to fruition.

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RE: Any news? - 2/15/2007 4:09:45 PM

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Some of the reorganization to make it easily expandable and other improvement items have been finished so hopefully we can wrap things up soon. I am looking forward to making scenarios with all the new countries and units. :^)

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RE: Any news? - 10/17/2007 12:36:50 AM

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Yeah!!! JTCS is released! And I'm only 8 months past the last date of the last reply of this dead thread wondering when the hell it was going to be released!!

See? Good things do come to those who wait... or fall off the edge of the earth in my case

Campaign series is here and it rocks! Windows menus and windows windows letting me window around the battlefield like I might have wished for in days of old - joyous sounds of my tanks now rolling again, through modern day surround sound instead of days of old cheesy speakers.

Now... where was it that I left 1st Battalion stranded along that Road to Moscow...

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