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RE: Atomic Games V4V Series - 5/11/2011 2:53:32 PM

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I have never played an email game with them. The WEGO system always seemed like it would be perfect for that. I read that it was a little tricky to get going. Who has played email with these games recently?

Me, but it was about 8 years ago. Nothing too tricky as I recall. Playing Stalingrad PBEM was one of the best gaming experiences anyhow.

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RE: Atomic Games V4V Series - 5/11/2011 7:46:49 PM

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Yep I can confirm that PBEM with those games - Crusader and Stalingrad and the D-Day game - don't remember the name - was smooth and an amazing amount of fun!!

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RE: Atomic Games V4V Series - 5/11/2011 8:48:24 PM

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As anyone got the patch 2.0 for Stalingrad and the 2.35 for Op Crusader?

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RE: Atomic Games V4V Series - 5/11/2011 8:57:35 PM

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Just found the answer to my question:

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/downloads

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RE: Atomic Games V4V Series - 5/11/2011 9:18:38 PM

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ORIGINAL: Arinvald
I have never played an email game with them. The WEGO system always seemed like it would be perfect for that. I read that it was a little tricky to get going. Who has played email with these games recently?

Me, but it was about 8 years ago. Nothing too tricky as I recall. Playing Stalingrad PBEM was one of the best gaming experiences anyhow.

Well, I have to admit I haven't played these games recently, but Veli Luki was I think the first game I ever played PBM. I still have Velike Luke, Market Garden, Utah Beach, Stalingrad and Crusader along with the manuals, but unfortunately, all the games except Stalingrad are on 5.25 or 3.5 inch diskettes.

I remember this being a really nice game system.

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RE: Atomic Games V4V Series - 5/11/2011 9:39:12 PM

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The games are freely available, ready to run using dosbox.

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RE: Atomic Games V4V Series - 5/11/2011 9:57:36 PM

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The games are freely available, ready to run using dosbox.

Yes, I've been following this thread. I tried dosbox several years ago, but wasn't very successful with it. After reading some of these posts though, I may have to give it another try. At least if I can locate the games.

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RE: Atomic Games V4V Series - 5/13/2011 2:47:36 AM

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if anyone who is no good with dosbox gets it working let me know i may try it if you can get it working

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RE: Atomic Games V4V Series - 5/13/2011 8:53:09 AM

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It might help some people, the use of a frontend application avoids farfing around with dos command lines in dosbox. You simply install dosbox, and then the front end.

There are several of them:

http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/DOSBoxFrontends

I personally use this one, as it has got a nice tab arrangement to keep your game collection tidy:

http://www.loonies.narod.ru/dosshell.htm

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RE: Atomic Games V4V Series - 9/27/2011 2:00:57 PM

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Howdy!!

I've been looking over the posts and was wondering if any of you folks got the sound to work with Crusader/D-Day ?
The sound in Stalingrad works but not the others.?
I have all of the W@W & V4V games.. Loved them back in the day & Love them now in the day!!!!...
It should be a crime that Hasbro will not redo them or sell the rights..

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RE: Atomic Games V4V Series - 9/30/2011 2:07:02 PM

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I have them all working fine excepth for D-Day: America Invades. I just can't get the sound to work for some reason.

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RE: Atomic Games V4V Series - 9/30/2011 10:43:43 PM

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I have them all working fine excepth for D-Day: America Invades. I just can't get the sound to work for some reason.

Well, you're further ahead than I am with America Invades...........the d##n game keeps insisting that the cd-rom must be in the drive and naturally doesn't find it even when it is in the drive. <sigh>

All the other V4V/WaW titles work just fine on my rig.

Oh well..........

Rob.

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RE: Atomic Games V4V Series - 4/24/2013 4:40:06 PM

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These games (Stalingrad, D-Day American Invades, Operation Crusader from W@War series and Gold-Juno-Sword, Utah Beach, Velikiye Luki, and Market Garden from V4V series) are really imo the best war/strategy games ever released for any platform.

If you are interested in PBEM'ing any of them hit me up I'll play these any day and forever.

If you want to play them you can run them easily. Go download D-Fend Reloaded (google it). http://dfendreloaded.sourceforge.net/ then install it.

Download the games, for example Stalingrad is at:
http://www.myabandonware.com/

Download the Stalingrad manual at http://replacementdocs.com/ (just search for Stalingrad manual there)

This tutorial tells you how to set up d-fend reloaded and install a game. it's a little old so don't choose "wizard" option when adding a game, choose manual and then pick dosbox not windows game (you'll see what I mean when you go through tutorial):
http://www.myabandonware.com/howto/

then unzip stalingrad into the folder that you get during step 3 of the d-fend tutorial above

Then start the game through d-fend. that's all there is to it - very simple.

These games really are so deep, so good, and so unique that if you like strategy games you owe it to yourself to dive into these games. And once you are up to speed hit me for some PBEM. :)

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