Red Storm Rising
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:09 pm
Hello.
Well, I've been trying to get this game to run on an emulator since I first found out about emulators several years ago.
Now I'm back at it again and hope that somehow, maybe, someone has found a way to make it work.... ?
What happens:
I load disk one and it works like a charm. I get to ID a ship and type a name, select era, submarine, difficulty and so on. Then I get the grey screen with a red disc image on it asking me to switch disk.
What I do then is to press F9 select disk 2 and press F4 (select disc). I get sent back to the grey screen with red disc and I click on go ahead.
So far everything is smooth and seems to work nicely. However when I get to the orders screen it starts to get odd. No order text is displayed only the order heading and after a while the "Press Fire to continue" message.
Ok, I press Fire and get to the screen where I can check sub status and go to general quarters and so on. I select check substatus and come to the weapons loadout screen, I make my choices and "press fire to continue" to come back to the screen where I can select general quarters.
If I do that now all I'll get is a red screen with "Engaging Enemy" message on it and the game stalls.
If I, before selecting general quarters, press F9 and select disc 1 and THEN select general quarters I will come one screen further before the game stalls but it does stall...
Sorry for the long post but this is getting frustrating because Red Storm Rising is the absolutely best game ever for the C64 and I want to play it again...
Well, I've been trying to get this game to run on an emulator since I first found out about emulators several years ago.
Now I'm back at it again and hope that somehow, maybe, someone has found a way to make it work.... ?
What happens:
I load disk one and it works like a charm. I get to ID a ship and type a name, select era, submarine, difficulty and so on. Then I get the grey screen with a red disc image on it asking me to switch disk.
What I do then is to press F9 select disk 2 and press F4 (select disc). I get sent back to the grey screen with red disc and I click on go ahead.
So far everything is smooth and seems to work nicely. However when I get to the orders screen it starts to get odd. No order text is displayed only the order heading and after a while the "Press Fire to continue" message.
Ok, I press Fire and get to the screen where I can check sub status and go to general quarters and so on. I select check substatus and come to the weapons loadout screen, I make my choices and "press fire to continue" to come back to the screen where I can select general quarters.
If I do that now all I'll get is a red screen with "Engaging Enemy" message on it and the game stalls.
If I, before selecting general quarters, press F9 and select disc 1 and THEN select general quarters I will come one screen further before the game stalls but it does stall...
Sorry for the long post but this is getting frustrating because Red Storm Rising is the absolutely best game ever for the C64 and I want to play it again...
