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Basic training, I guess. - 3/19/2004 1:14:43 AM

Shawmut

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I'm new to war-gaming, but certainly more interested in strategy type like SP, KorsPock, Hwy/Reich, SP sounds good to me though I have the other two.

1. I have XP. NVIDIA, etc, - Will the SP be geared for it?
2. I noticed SP Pachages by Bruderbund available via Amazon (But not in XP). Will they function?
3. At this stage, of course, I'd be working solo, repecting those of you with greater experience.

These questons may seem very fundamental to most of you. But, late in life, I'm trying to get started nd looking forward to some interesting fun.
Thank you,

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RE: Basic training, I guess. - 3/19/2004 3:57:22 AM

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SPWAW is free, so it won't hurt you to download it and try it out. I don't think you'll have any trouble system-wise. It's a very low resource requirement game, although, since it doesn't work in a windows environment it will use all the computer resources it can grab.

Try it you'll like it!

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RE: Basic training, I guess. - 3/19/2004 8:11:18 AM

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What do you mean it doesn't work in a windows environment?

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RE: Basic training, I guess. - 3/19/2004 2:15:17 PM

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It does not run windowed.

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RE: Basic training, I guess. - 3/19/2004 2:30:35 PM

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Im like mine field what do you mean windowed. Or wont run in windows. I have no problem with it at all. If you mean with somehting else running on your comp at the same time i understand that. But i never have anything else running anyways.

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RE: Basic training, I guess. - 3/19/2004 3:30:50 PM

Frank W.

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no prob here with other progs in the background.

i usually rum a virus scanner and if i play more
pbm outlook express + winzip together with SPWAW
( to directly zip and send completed turns out...)

my sys is win98 + cleron 1400 + radeon 8500 btw.

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RE: Basic training, I guess. - 3/19/2004 4:03:11 PM

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Shawmut, welcome!

Just DL the game and start playing it----------you're going to love it!

adam

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RE: Basic training, I guess. - 4/6/2004 12:19:06 AM

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I thank you for all for your comments. I was pursuing SPWW the wrong way. Download was easy.

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RE: Basic training, I guess. - 4/6/2004 12:56:16 AM

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shawmut:

Don't forget to get the latest update.....you can get that by going to your Spwaw folder and clicking on "TrueUpdate.exe"

Welcome to the game

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RE: Basic training, I guess. - 4/19/2004 3:16:09 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: robot
Im like mine field what do you mean windowed. Or wont run in windows. I have no problem with it at all. If you mean with somehting else running on your comp at the same time i understand that. But i never have anything else running anyways.

I think what mkoch means about the game not running windowed is that when you load up SPWAW, it switches to a separate DOS window for the game.

You can see this in several ways.

Most obvious is that you cannot resize SPWAW and there is no min-max or close buttons in the top right corner. There is also no title bar along the top now can you bring up a taskbar on the bottom.

The only way you can switch from SPWAW to a regular windows 'window', which DOES have all the above attributes, is to alt-tab and the icon you have to use is the DOS icon.

At least on my own system, SPWAW doesn't use a lot of resources and I frequently run it with several other programs running in windows in the background. However, I have noticed that if I alt-tab back and forth a lot, that SPWAW must leave something hanging that cumulatively uses up resources and the game will start running slower and eventually crash if I keep it up.

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RE: Basic training, I guess. - 4/19/2004 4:37:37 PM

Jim1954

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I have heard that a fair number of folks experience problems with PBEM save files if they alt-tab in and out a lot, too.

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