Aces of the Deep on WINXP!!!!

filboid42 · 04-12-06, 05:33 PM

OK you Ol' swabs!

I was able to get Aces Over Europe(from the original 3 Sierra floppies) up and running on my winxp pro system! As well as Aces Of The Deep!! You may already know about this but I thought I would pass it on anyway.

What I did was download a program called DOSBox and another windows frontend for DOSBox called D-Fren v2.

The links for these are below.

DOSBox-0.63-install.exe
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

D-Fend-2.0.62.42.exe
http://members.home.nl/mabus/

Installed DOSBox first and then D-Fend.

D-Fend has a setup wizard and is extremely easy to use.

So far I have tested about 20 old dos games and everyone worked perfect.

Here is my setup: WinXP Pro, 2GB Ram, ATI Radeon XT 256MB,STA soundcard. I was viewing it on a 24inch SyncMaster monitor too!

Aces Over Europe
Aces Of The Pacific
Aces Of The Deep
Red Baron
Doom,1,2,SE
Spear of Destiny
Wolfenstien
BlackThorn

Pretty cool to see these old games and hear the music again.

Filboid42

Antonin · 04-16-06, 06:09 PM

Can you provide more info about whoever makes this utility? I hesitate to DL things from sites I do not know well.

I loved AOD, and would love to get it to run on my Win XP PC. I'd play SH1 if I could.

Because I still have not decided whether to buy SH3 because of Starforce, I'm really dying to play a U-boat sim!

Onkel Neal · 06-11-06, 07:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Antonin

Can you provide more info about whoever makes this utility? I hesitate to DL things from sites I do not know well.

I loved AOD, and would love to get it to run on my Win XP PC. I'd play SH1 if I could.

I've experiemented with DOSBOX and Silent Hunter 1. I was able to get the game to play, but not very smoothly and with no sound. Here are the steps I took:
http://www.subsim.com/tips/tip_sh1.php#winxp

I would be interested in seeing if some of you old SH skippers can complete this and get the sound working. Let me know and I will add it to the tips section.

donut · 06-11-06, 08:54 PM

@ Onkel Sir
http://www.subsowespac.org/sh_xp/silent_hunterxp.shtml It works.
Yours,Donut

Ck Your Email Onkel
E-mail Address(es):
subsim@subsim.com

You will need to configure VDMS sound emulation correctly

Smaragdadler · 06-18-06, 01:40 PM

I have installed Silent Hunter I (Commander Edition) on my vaio-laptop with WinXP. To get it running I made a full install, deleted copyr.smk,logo444.smk and skin.smk-files. For sound I have just run the soundconfig-programm in the SH root directory. I had success in choosing the very first option 'Media Vision Thunderboard (TM) FM Sound'.
All runs smooth and well.

I also have tried to install Command Aces of the Deep. It all goes well till the programm starts to load the playing part of the sim. When press the 'go' button on the briefing screen the programm hangs up and it tells me it needs so and so much memory. But in real I have much more.
There was some adivice here on subsim to make a boot disk - but this was vor Win98 - not XP.
And yes I have marked to run in win95 compatibiliy (sp?) mode.
But I'm fine with SH1 for now..

CB.. · 06-18-06, 04:51 PM

i've got CAOTD and it runs perfectly more or less on Win XP SP2
all the sound works well--the only problem i have experienced with it is due to me running it in 32 bit colour-(and thats normal anyway)
nicely tho-instead of the scope and uzo tdc view being all mangled up as normal when running at 32 bit colour- all i see is the scope/uzo view and the rest of the screen is black---see-ing as im too laxy to change to 16 bit all the time--i just pop down to the command room and use the tdc screen there--which displays perfectly (as do all the other pop up screens) which is an improvement on my old ME set up--
perfectly playable--

Warmonger · 09-30-06, 10:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Smaragdadler

I also have tried to install Command Aces of the Deep. It all goes well till the programm starts to load the playing part of the sim. When press the 'go' button on the briefing screen the programm hangs up and it tells me it needs so and so much memory. But in real I have much more.

Same problem here, is there any solution? I got the sound running even with a soundblaster live but the memory error is still there when starting a mission. Edit: Solution here, at the bottom of this page...doh http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=97271

Hellcat · 08-25-06, 02:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

I've experiemented with DOSBOX and Silent Hunter 1. I was able to get the game to play, but not very smoothly and with no sound. Here are the steps I took:
http://www.subsim.com/tips/tip_sh1.php#winxp

Neal, your short tutorial made no mention of using some of the commands in dosbox to optimize the game while playing it.

Make sure to try "Ctrl + F8" to increase frameskip and "Ctrl + F7" to decrease it. The game is very playable with frameskip at "4" (it will say what your at in the dosbox window)

You can also try to increase the cpu allocation to dos box by pressing "Ctril + F12" or "Ctrl + F11" to reduce it.

vinceor · 08-25-06, 06:18 PM

I have ran SH1 well using Dosbox. Follow the directions given at this site http://www.subsowespac.org/silent-hunter-dosbox.shtml . The music entering port isn't to hot but the rest worked well.

Sonarman · 04-18-06, 03:41 PM

Im using the Dosbox/Dfend combo too and managed to get good old "Task Force 1942" up and running fine I've also been trying the "Great Naval Battles" series but no luck there as yet.

One more interesting thing, I discovered the receipt for Task Force 1942 in the box, it cost 49.99 UK pounds in 1992 almost twice as much as games cost today!

Tanyrhiew · 04-19-06, 02:51 PM

I've had tf1942 & AoD running under dosbox for about a year - I posted here with the instructions.

With tf1942 I'm running an "abandonware" version (i have tried to buy a legal version, even going to the extent of ringing microprose who nothing about it - even the budget cd version they released under the soldout label) - my original (andthe first game I ever bought) having gone to the place games go when they die, the box having been left on top of some stereo speakers with disasterous consequences for the floppies inside, when we moved house about 10 years ago.

What i dont have however is the keyboard commands and wonder if you can confirm if there were keys for changing ammunition type and the searchlights .

Still the best simulation of "Big gun" naval combat ever done. Og for a remake.

Sonarman · 04-20-06, 04:50 AM

Hi Tanyrhiew

Here are the keys for TF1942

Esc Return to bridge
F1 Bridge
F2 Charts
F3 Gun Director
F4 Observer View
F5 Torpedo Director
F6 Damage Control
F7 Binoculars
F8 Save game
F9 Load Game
F10 Graphic Options
Alt+F10 Realism Options (in patched v1.1)

1 Increase Speed
2 Decrease Speed
shift + 1 increase to one half max (if below half speed) or go to flank speed if not
shift + 2 decrease to one half max (if above half speed) or stop if not
3 Gun Director ID book switch
8 Load/Unload Starshells
9 Searchlights on/off
0 Switch Torpedo mount
- decrease time scale
+ increase time scale
shift + arrow key scroll screen
ctrl + arrow key move pointer to hotspot
z zoom view
x expand view (zoom out)
< turn to port gradually
> turn to starboard gradually
shift + < turn to port 1 point (22.5 degrees)
shift + > turn to stbd 1 point (22.5 degrees)
Enter Fire weapons
spacebar Director targetting on / off
Numeric keypad
8 Gunner adjust range longer
2 Gunner adjust range shorter
4 view left
6 view right

Other controls
Alt + P pause
Alt + S sound
Alt + J joystick adjust
Alt + Q quit to dos

Good luck on finding an original copy eBay is still the best bet.

oabaz · 06-26-07, 10:36 AM

HI ALL

I am trying to install Aces of the deep on xp but am haveing no luck can anyone help me please...

bazflameblade@hotmail.co.uk msn me or email me if you may have some light on this matter

i have dosBox but dont know what im doing

please help me if you can

many thanks Baz

Keln · 09-09-07, 10:47 PM

I used to have this game a long long time ago, I had all the Aces games. Then I lost them somwhere. Well I bought them all again some years back and never was able to get them running on ME or XP

So I saw the dosbox thing earlier today and decided to try that on AOD. That D-Fend thing is nowhere to be found. I downloaded one called dbfrontend, but it's confusing. So I kind of manually made dosbox work, and I can get the game running, but no sound, and I cannot get the screen bigger than about half-screen size. I can get the dosbox window to go full screen and all, but it's just a big black area with a little game inside, and no sound. I run the sound settings deal inside dosbox, and I can hear the sounds from the sound test, but nothing in the game itself.

I could probably get used to the screen size after a while, but the squinting may give me a headache. The sound though is really annoying...absolute silence. While it was always pretty quiet on the sub I was on, it was never that quiet...

Any ideas?

CptGrayWolf · 09-11-07, 11:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keln

I used to have this game a long long time ago, I had all the Aces games. Then I lost them somwhere. Well I bought them all again some years back and never was able to get them running on ME or XP

So I saw the dosbox thing earlier today and decided to try that on AOD. That D-Fend thing is nowhere to be found. I downloaded one called dbfrontend, but it's confusing. So I kind of manually made dosbox work, and I can get the game running, but no sound, and I cannot get the screen bigger than about half-screen size. I can get the dosbox window to go full screen and all, but it's just a big black area with a little game inside, and no sound. I run the sound settings deal inside dosbox, and I can hear the sounds from the sound test, but nothing in the game itself.

I could probably get used to the screen size after a while, but the squinting may give me a headache. The sound though is really annoying...absolute silence. While it was always pretty quiet on the sub I was on, it was never that quiet...

Any ideas?

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04-12-06, 05:33 PM	#1
filboid42 Swabbie Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Small Point, East Coast of the Atlantic, Maine USA Posts: 7 Downloads: 28 Uploads: 0	Aces of the Deep on WINXP!!!! OK you Ol' swabs! I was able to get Aces Over Europe(from the original 3 Sierra floppies) up and running on my winxp pro system! As well as Aces Of The Deep!! You may already know about this but I thought I would pass it on anyway. What I did was download a program called DOSBox and another windows frontend for DOSBox called D-Fren v2. The links for these are below. DOSBox-0.63-install.exe http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1 D-Fend-2.0.62.42.exe http://members.home.nl/mabus/ Installed DOSBox first and then D-Fend. D-Fend has a setup wizard and is extremely easy to use. So far I have tested about 20 old dos games and everyone worked perfect. Here is my setup: WinXP Pro, 2GB Ram, ATI Radeon XT 256MB,STA soundcard. I was viewing it on a 24inch SyncMaster monitor too! Aces Over Europe Aces Of The Pacific Aces Of The Deep Red Baron Doom,1,2,SE Spear of Destiny Wolfenstien BlackThorn Pretty cool to see these old games and hear the music again. Filboid42 __________________ On June 22, 1942, observers and shore gunners on Bailey Island reported a submarine on the surface heading east. The Navy sent the destroyer McCalla from Portland. The U-boat submerged, but was hit with a depth charge seven miles east of Halfway Rock. Oil came to the surface, and the next day, bodies of German sailors washed ashore on Small Point.

06-11-06, 08:54 PM	#4
donut The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: The Shifting, Whispering Sands, NM Posts: 1,463 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	SHCE running on XP(quite long) @ Onkel Sir http://www.subsowespac.org/sh_xp/silent_hunterxp.shtml It works. Yours,Donut Ck Your Email Onkel E-mail Address(es): subsim@subsim.com You will need to configure VDMS sound emulation correctly Last edited by donut; 06-11-06 at 09:15 PM.

06-18-06, 01:40 PM	#5
Smaragdadler XO Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Thuringia Posts: 429 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	I have installed Silent Hunter I (Commander Edition) on my vaio-laptop with WinXP. To get it running I made a full install, deleted copyr.smk,logo444.smk and skin.smk-files. For sound I have just run the soundconfig-programm in the SH root directory. I had success in choosing the very first option 'Media Vision Thunderboard (TM) FM Sound'. All runs smooth and well. I also have tried to install Command Aces of the Deep. It all goes well till the programm starts to load the playing part of the sim. When press the 'go' button on the briefing screen the programm hangs up and it tells me it needs so and so much memory. But in real I have much more. There was some adivice here on subsim to make a boot disk - but this was vor Win98 - not XP. And yes I have marked to run in win95 compatibiliy (sp?) mode. But I'm fine with SH1 for now.. Last edited by Smaragdadler; 06-18-06 at 01:46 PM.

06-18-06, 04:51 PM	#6
CB.. Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: UK Posts: 1,278 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	i've got CAOTD and it runs perfectly more or less on Win XP SP2 all the sound works well--the only problem i have experienced with it is due to me running it in 32 bit colour-(and thats normal anyway) nicely tho-instead of the scope and uzo tdc view being all mangled up as normal when running at 32 bit colour- all i see is the scope/uzo view and the rest of the screen is black---see-ing as im too laxy to change to 16 bit all the time--i just pop down to the command room and use the tdc screen there--which displays perfectly (as do all the other pop up screens) which is an improvement on my old ME set up-- perfectly playable-- __________________ the world's tinyiest sh3 supermod- and other SH3/SH2 stuff http://www.ebort2.co.uk/ The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. W.B.Yeats

04-19-06, 02:51 PM	#11
Tanyrhiew Watch Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 17 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	ahhhh, you may be able to help! I've had tf1942 & AoD running under dosbox for about a year - I posted here with the instructions. With tf1942 I'm running an "abandonware" version (i have tried to buy a legal version, even going to the extent of ringing microprose who nothing about it - even the budget cd version they released under the soldout label) - my original (andthe first game I ever bought) having gone to the place games go when they die, the box having been left on top of some stereo speakers with disasterous consequences for the floppies inside, when we moved house about 10 years ago. What i dont have however is the keyboard commands and wonder if you can confirm if there were keys for changing ammunition type and the searchlights . Still the best simulation of "Big gun" naval combat ever done. Og for a remake.

04-16-06, 06:09 PM	#2
Antonin Sailor man Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere near Iceland Posts: 46 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Can you provide more info about whoever makes this utility? I hesitate to DL things from sites I do not know well. I loved AOD, and would love to get it to run on my Win XP PC. I'd play SH1 if I could. Because I still have not decided whether to buy SH3 because of Starforce, I'm really dying to play a U-boat sim!

08-25-06, 06:18 PM	#9
vinceor Sailor man Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Georgetown, Texas, USA Posts: 50 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 0	I have ran SH1 well using Dosbox. Follow the directions given at this site http://www.subsowespac.org/silent-hunter-dosbox.shtml . The music entering port isn't to hot but the rest worked well.

04-18-06, 03:41 PM	#10
Sonarman The Old Man Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ayr,Scotland,UK Posts: 1,384 Downloads: 79 Uploads: 0	Im using the Dosbox/Dfend combo too and managed to get good old "Task Force 1942" up and running fine I've also been trying the "Great Naval Battles" series but no luck there as yet. One more interesting thing, I discovered the receipt for Task Force 1942 in the box, it cost 49.99 UK pounds in 1992 almost twice as much as games cost today!

04-20-06, 04:50 AM	#12
Sonarman The Old Man Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ayr,Scotland,UK Posts: 1,384 Downloads: 79 Uploads: 0	Hi Tanyrhiew Here are the keys for TF1942 Esc Return to bridge F1 Bridge F2 Charts F3 Gun Director F4 Observer View F5 Torpedo Director F6 Damage Control F7 Binoculars F8 Save game F9 Load Game F10 Graphic Options Alt+F10 Realism Options (in patched v1.1) 1 Increase Speed 2 Decrease Speed shift + 1 increase to one half max (if below half speed) or go to flank speed if not shift + 2 decrease to one half max (if above half speed) or stop if not 3 Gun Director ID book switch 8 Load/Unload Starshells 9 Searchlights on/off 0 Switch Torpedo mount - decrease time scale + increase time scale shift + arrow key scroll screen ctrl + arrow key move pointer to hotspot z zoom view x expand view (zoom out) < turn to port gradually > turn to starboard gradually shift + < turn to port 1 point (22.5 degrees) shift + > turn to stbd 1 point (22.5 degrees) Enter Fire weapons spacebar Director targetting on / off Numeric keypad 8 Gunner adjust range longer 2 Gunner adjust range shorter 4 view left 6 view right Other controls Alt + P pause Alt + S sound Alt + J joystick adjust Alt + Q quit to dos Good luck on finding an original copy eBay is still the best bet.

06-26-07, 10:36 AM	#13
oabaz Bilge Rat Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: kent, UK Posts: 1 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Help Me Please:) HI ALL I am trying to install Aces of the deep on xp but am haveing no luck can anyone help me please... bazflameblade@hotmail.co.uk msn me or email me if you may have some light on this matter i have dosBox but dont know what im doing please help me if you can many thanks Baz

09-09-07, 10:47 PM	#14
Keln Nub Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 4 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	er I used to have this game a long long time ago, I had all the Aces games. Then I lost them somwhere. Well I bought them all again some years back and never was able to get them running on ME or XP So I saw the dosbox thing earlier today and decided to try that on AOD. That D-Fend thing is nowhere to be found. I downloaded one called dbfrontend, but it's confusing. So I kind of manually made dosbox work, and I can get the game running, but no sound, and I cannot get the screen bigger than about half-screen size. I can get the dosbox window to go full screen and all, but it's just a big black area with a little game inside, and no sound. I run the sound settings deal inside dosbox, and I can hear the sounds from the sound test, but nothing in the game itself. I could probably get used to the screen size after a while, but the squinting may give me a headache. The sound though is really annoying...absolute silence. While it was always pretty quiet on the sub I was on, it was never that quiet... Any ideas?