I meant to do it last night and double check, but I *think* that M1TP2 ran under GLIDE without CTD on my old P3/Win98/V5 5500 machine. Been awhile, so I may be mis-remembering, or maybe I ran in D3D all the time. Will check it out and post back with a report.

Recluse

Thank you very much, Lepus!
3Dfx Hind now works on my 7600GT. However, frame rate is way too low for a 1995 game. Any ideas on how to improve it? Tried playing with wrapper settings, by no positive results...:)

@ Recluse: I believe M1TP2 ran correctly on an earlier machine of mine also, running Windows 98. The exit button used to display as well, and it does not on XP/ATI, regardless of D3D or Glide modes. If this is an accurate recollection, then the problem might be with the OS. But it's been so long, it might not only have been a Win 98 OS, but also equipped with a Voodoo 2 pass through card.

Nowadays, I can complete missions on an ATI equipped XP machine in D3D mode, get to debrief, and then back to the menu page. With Glide (wrapper) mode, any mission will CTD at its conclusion, after selecting "Y" at the "Y/N" end mission dialog.


@Logrus: I had the same result as you, with frame rates. In fact, before getting it to run in D3D just fine, I had tried the DOS version, using dosbox. Extremely slow frame rates - ona far more powerful modern machine than platforms that existed at Hind's release. But dosbox allows you to ramp up your CPU cycles using Ctrl F12 at user-controlled increments. By moving from a default of 3000 cycles and cranking way up to 40K or 50K or more, Hind smooths out. I don't recall that the Glide wrappers offer this ability, and I couldn't increase Windows/Glide mode frame rates. Rendered the sim unplayable.

Strange thing is that increasing resolution or AA/AF doesn't significantly influence FPS. There should be a way around this! Maybe something to tune in videocard settings?

Does anyone know of some emulation software that may play these legacy games, particularly glide based games? Other than using a glide wrapper. Dosbox?

DOSBOX works great for DOS games, but not so much for Windows games...and no help with GLIDE emulation (so far).

Recluse

Thanks Recluse for the info.

Nice to see Im not the ony one playing this great old game.

But I have a small request. I downloaded it from underdogs.com and there was no list of keyboard comands in the rar. so can somebody post them or put a link to scaned manual or someting.

Thanks anyway.

Never mind, I found the controls on this site: http://www.allgame.com/cg/agg.dll?p=agg&sql=1:13296~T2

Hi,
The complete Hind manual is available as pdf file from replacementdocs.com

http://www.replacementdocs.com/download.php?view.1700