You are all welcome
@BrianLidd - If you want to run the Steam version be aware of some tweaking required to bring this game to enjoyable state.
If digitized speech doesn't work check out this guide
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=645771978also if you encounter any problems with the joystick, get a peek inside the
dosbox_fleetdefender.conf file in your
\Steam\SteamApps\common\Fleet Defender\dosbox_windows folder
Look for
[joystick] section, the game comes with these default settings
joysticktype=auto
timed=true
autofire=false
swap34=false
buttonwrap=false
I'm running the original retail CD version 2.0 on my own DOSBox config for many years now, and these joystick settings works for me (with working HAT switch, throttle and rudder):
joysticktype=ch
timed=false
autofire=false
swap34=true
buttonwrap=false
and here are my ingame joystick settings:
Also, you may try to run the "encyclopedia" yourself through
\Steam\SteamApps\common\Fleet Defender\CD\mainmenu.exe. Unfortunatelly AFAIK it's a 16-bit windows application, so it will not run on modern OS or plain DOSBox (probably DOSBox running Windows 3.11 would run it or any other windows supprting 16-bit applications for that matter). I have recorded the videos on my still holding pretty well XP machine. That's the sole purpose of me uploading all those videos - to make them easily available for everyone.