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Justin's Win98 Fix for AOD

All righty future U-boatmen, follow this simple instructions to get AOD 1.2, with expansion, working in Windows, so you can sail around in the ORIGINAL AOD with your Type II, VII, IX, or XXI.

Install AOD, then run SETSOUND.exe(NOTE: this will reboot your PC to a dos prompt, so as to configure your sound card), then
install the expansion disk, and then the 1.2 patch as the appropriate readme files state, but IN THAT ORDER.

Then, to apply the "Justin AOD Win98 Fix" (Nice title, eh?) follow these steps:

STEP 1: Right click on AOD.BAT, click properties, then the PROGRAM tab.
STEP 2: The Advanced button is on the lower left hand side of the Dialogue box (Notice how all the folder paths are greyed out).
STEP 3: Click Advanced, it brings up another Dialog Box, with tabs.
STEP 4: Uncheck the box with "MS-DOS MODE"
STEP 3: Click the MEMORY tab,
and find the 2 check mark boxes on the screen with "Protected" and "Uses HMA"
STEP 4: Repeat 1 through 3 on AODCD.EXE
STEP 5: Run INSTALL.EXE on the HD, so the sound will work right.
STEP 6: Launch AOD.BAT.
STEP 7: If the game crashes after a couple of hours (which happens 3 out of 10 times, no sweat), right click on AOD.BAT, click properties, and on the first screen, check the box that says "CLOSE ON EXIT" (Notice also how the path lines which were greyed out are now open, like true windows programs). Then re launch the game. You may have to reboot in some cases.

I haven't tried it on Win 95, but it works for Win 98

REMEMBER: Each time you start you PC and want to run AOD, click INSTALL.EXE and then Accept settings. Make no changes. This ensures the sound plays at its correct speed. If you decide to launch another program (or surf the net etc) refer to step 7 (you can check or uncheck, it doesn't matter).

NOTE: You may not have to, but I close all programs but the open folder "C:\DYNAMIX\AODCD" or whatever you installed it too (You can't make a shortcut, Im not sure why), Explorer, and Systray. Like I said, you may not have too.

Feel free to copy this tutorial for use on AOD sites or other BBS's, but please mention my name, as I would like to "Make a name for myself" in the subsim community if you will.

If you have questions, I will send some screen shots detailing what to click and how. Send all questions to TankerAce@aol.com. Have fun with the "Justin AOD Win98 Fix"! I'll see you all in the North Atlantic!

Justin
"Sugar boats rule"