System Shock (on 1.44MB floppies) is getting disk read errors on my Windows 95 laptop - by dickkickem
D'Arcy on 23/7/2019 at 11:45
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Vipersan on 23/7/2019 at 17:17
I'm seriously glad I joined this forum now.
My grateful thanks to D'Arcy ..
I now have a working copy of SS1
:)
icemann on 23/7/2019 at 17:53
I am so happy that the floppy version was not my first experience of SS1. CD version is night and day to it.
D'Arcy on 23/7/2019 at 22:05
But then you missed the fun of loving the floppy disk version and then getting all excited to find out there was a CD enhanced version to play all over again.
And I still like the music from the floppy disk version better (or I just miss how it sounded on my SB16).
Marecki on 24/7/2019 at 11:33
Belatedly on the subject of music: while I cannot recall any difference between FD and CD versions of System Shock, it changed a lot when I replaced my SB16 clone with an AWE64 - or in other words, when I went from FM-synth MIDI output to WaveTable. Oddly enough, I think I actually prefer the FM-synth arrangement - especially in the cyberspace sections, where the electronic bleep-bloop of synthetised instruments (I believe kids these days call this "chiptune music"... PS. get off my lawn) feels much more at home than "real" instruments.
Vipersan on 25/7/2019 at 10:00
I got my floppy edition installed the other day thanks to some help here..
It's been years since I ran it.
The music wasn't quite as I remembered it ..
Which could be just me and rose coloured specs..
Or just confusion having heard the CD version also.
But more likely ..
The sound card I'm using
I am afterall using a Soundblaster Live (PCI) and not an ISA soudblaster as I did in the past.
It took me a while to even get sound as the Live was never really designed for DOS.
I'm using a driver package put together by Phil at Phils computer labs.
Then had to work out how to drop out to DOS from Win 98se ..as I didn't want to run in a DOS window...
That way lies problems for the SB Live.
So really I'm in a proper DOS envionment now..
A few tweaks to memory management and the addition of a mouse driver for DOS..and up n running.
Works great and I'm a happy bunny.
cheers all
VS
RocketMan on 1/8/2019 at 16:41
I'm also on both sides - preferring to play the CD version of the game while preferring to install the floppy version. If they put them on 5.25" floppies I would have probably played that version to the detriment of the rest of the game!