Slitherine

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From The Very Astute rwenstrup
"There are some things that define the culture of an organization. The original Steel Panthers give away made Matrix. I have bought games intentionally from Matrix for many years as a result of this."

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Another Basic truth from rwenstrup
"It is VERY much in Matrix's interest to continue to support this game..."

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Old School Marketing Philosophy from rwenstrup that is still Valid. Ignore at your own Risk Matrix / Slitherene
"it is a source of considerable customer goodwill...something that people pay a lot to get..."

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ORIGINAL: Matti Kuokkanen

What comes to creating new installer by Matrix staff, which includes mods and the likes, there could be some legal mumbojumbo which would require something more than forum/e-mail exchange between Matrix, Slitherine, and modders. Now I'm shooting indirect fire without observer, but do I hit on the target?

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ORIGINAL: Iain McNeil
I've explained the basic reasoning in the other thread but its not as simple as it sounds

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ORIGINAL: Iain McNeil
or obviously we would have done it a long time ago.

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ORIGINAL: Iain McNeil
I can't really say any more for now ;)

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ORIGINAL: shunwick

It's my understanding that Steel Panthers World at War works flawlessly on Windows 8 or 8.1 apart from the bug on the artillery screen for which there is a workaround.

I am wrong?

Best wishes,
Steve

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ORIGINAL: Major Mess

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ORIGINAL: shunwick

It's my understanding that Steel Panthers World at War works flawlessly on Windows 8 or 8.1 apart from the bug on the artillery screen for which there is a workaround.

I am wrong?

Best wishes,
Steve

Steve, you are not wrong.

If you click on this Link HERE. you'll get a better description of the workaround.


There is No Good Reason to not enjoy this game again.




Hope this helps



cheers

MM

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ORIGINAL: DSWargamer

Ok I tried to register to get the arty bug details only to be told it has no interest in my email. I'm not getting an email if I am just wanting the arty bug explained. Any help would be appreciated.

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ORIGINAL: From the Depot - author: iskaput
Hi Everyone,


I'd like to present a work-around that has really sorted out my Artillery Screen issues.
One caveat: I run my game on a generic HP Win 8 - 64 bit box, so YMMV on an earlier OS. (it shouldn't though)

What I have done is mapped one of my mouse buttons (in my case the wheel button) to activate the Shift key + the Left Mouse Button simultaneously.
It's like holding down the Shift key and left-clicking on the button/hex but better, waaaaaaaay better.

I dunno why this works.
It just does.

Extensive testing took place over the weekend. I haven't really been inclined to play the game lately (bunged up my shoulder awhile ago - too sore and cranky) but after I stumbled upon this I was gobsmacked.
Health be damned, this is one of the holy quests!

One click.
100% of the time.

This is what you need.
- At least a 3 button, preferably a 5 button wheel mouse.
- Software to map the mouse buttons.

I figured this out using a program called X-Mouse Button Control. It's a solid, well supported piece of freeware. You can get the latest version HERE!!!!

1 - Install X-Mouse.
2 - Find the X-Mouse icon chillin' away on the Taskbar. Right click for menu, left click Setup.
3 - Click the Add button, hunt down the mech.exe file. Select and click OK

mech.exe is now in the Profiles window, highlight mech.exe and now you can assign specific tasks to each control.

*continuing with my example*
4 - Open the drop-down menu beside Middle Button, scroll down to click on Simulated Keys (undefined). In the field of the next window copy and paste this:

{SHIFT}{LMB}

click OK and you're done

5 - repeat step 4 for the other controls (key in appropriate letter/function).
6 - when satisfied, click Apply and then Close.



Now you've mapped the mouse, next up is your brain.
Go on, fire up the game.
Try it out.
See if you can get used to using the new control. Took me about half an hour.

Oh Yeah, this also works in the main Battle Screen when you want to stack units.





I hope you find yourself with a silly smile on your face. I am.

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ORIGINAL: DSWargamer

Gary can cram him monstrosity titles and their obsession with too much and too complex to be remotely realistic use of good game time. I wish he'd make a Steel Panther's successor instead. My money spent on War in the Pacific, and War in the East was the same as a drunk spending money on booze. I never should have bought them. Gary, those games don't cut it even by a fraction in comparison. They don't impress me, and any awards you have gotten for them, I couldn't care less.

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ORIGINAL: Yogi the Great

Now I have to buy almost entirely on-line and even that is becoming more of a problem. Perhaps we are just too small of a market for a company to want to focus on. Perhaps they don't see enough profit potential. Many if not most of those reading this thread will buy from and support a company that provides us with the proper type and quality of game. Are there enough of us? The state of pc gaming tends to suggest that many companies don't think so.