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Mars Mullo · 09-23-13, 09:41 PM

I have the original AOD inthe box with flppy disks and books. But he floppy disks have been corrupted and I have no computer with a 4 1/4 inch disk drive so can't use it anymore.

however because I love this game I downloaded it and tried to run it in Windows 8 on DOSBOX 0.72 (?)

I had the following probems which seem to be typical of 90% of th efree downloads and paid downloads on the web:

Sound would not play

Game would only save in port and not at sea.

After hours of internet browsing I found results which worked..

They were..

For sound the soundset.ex would not work.. it couldn't find allthe files to run properly. It did at least tell you hwt thier names were.
I serched them and copied versions from another microprose game and discovered they were in fact in the game under the SOUND folder.
So you need only copy those variouse *.HMP and files into the AOD directory with the SOundset.exe file and it will run.
once i did this the soundset.exe application worked and the sound played in the game.

For the message about not being able to save in the game I found a refernce to a french language forum and it pointed out ther was tw folders for saving.. one for in port and the other under the SIM folder. Which I found was missing in many ofthe free downloads.

So all you need do is create a folder called SAVE under te SIM folder and opolate it with HIST001.SAV through to HIST020.SAve blank files and hte save feature all of a sudden works. I did however look through about five free download versions and one which I had (which was not a zip file but a full 100+ MB download) had some save files. So I copied those and pasted them in.

And yes it all works well now.

hope this kind of helps..

09-23-13, 09:41 PM	#8
Mars Mullo Swabbie Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: New Zealand Posts: 6 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I have the original AOD inthe box with flppy disks and books. But he floppy disks have been corrupted and I have no computer with a 4 1/4 inch disk drive so can't use it anymore. however because I love this game I downloaded it and tried to run it in Windows 8 on DOSBOX 0.72 (?) I had the following probems which seem to be typical of 90% of th efree downloads and paid downloads on the web: Sound would not play Game would only save in port and not at sea. After hours of internet browsing I found results which worked.. They were.. For sound the soundset.ex would not work.. it couldn't find allthe files to run properly. It did at least tell you hwt thier names were. I serched them and copied versions from another microprose game and discovered they were in fact in the game under the SOUND folder. So you need only copy those variouse *.HMP and files into the AOD directory with the SOundset.exe file and it will run. once i did this the soundset.exe application worked and the sound played in the game. For the message about not being able to save in the game I found a refernce to a french language forum and it pointed out ther was tw folders for saving.. one for in port and the other under the SIM folder. Which I found was missing in many ofthe free downloads. So all you need do is create a folder called SAVE under te SIM folder and opolate it with HIST001.SAV through to HIST020.SAve blank files and hte save feature all of a sudden works. I did however look through about five free download versions and one which I had (which was not a zip file but a full 100+ MB download) had some save files. So I copied those and pasted them in. And yes it all works well now. hope this kind of helps..