The manual here including Technical Supplement is for Atari ST.Ĭuriously this version has Roland MT-32 version which was absent on my old original version version (449.01, this version is 449.02). However, can't check if I remember wrong, since my old original package is storaged far far away. In fact I'm recalling the Technical Supplement leaflet in my DOS version was encouraging to take a backup of the game and keep the original floppy safe. No installation should be necessary and the game should work fine by TANK.COM file in whichever own custom folder just by copying it manually.Īlso at least my original HD floppy version of this game was not copy protected by any means. This version runs fine for me, but only when I'll set in DOSBox configuration:Īs far as I know all the INSTALL.EXE file really does is copies the game to hard drive on a preset folder and adds a batch file to the drive root.
That file you mention is precisely the one that must usually one must swap out with the cracked version that is to be found onlne
If your actual floppy disks dont have this protection then i would love to know what exactly the box and disk look like, that you have - is yours a later budget release copy like the Kixx versions?įortunately i do have a cdrom copy of M1TP 1, it too was a later budget release version, so i at least have that if floppy version is inaccessible for me
I suspect the latter as I also tried to install M1TP in dos through PCEM and that also did not work. I have the original floppies with this and sadly it seems that either Dosbox cannot recognise it, or modern USB Floppy drives lack some ability to detect it.
M1 Tank Platoon did have copy protection and the technical supplement in the boxed version (the one with teh photo of the m1 tanks on the cover rather than a painting, ) actually describes this in detail - Microprose used the key disk protection whereby disk A has some kind of code in it which cant be copied, and only can be detected by the physical floppy drive It was simply, the beginning of the golden age for fighter flight sims.Thanks for your comment - i am surprised that setting the core to dynamic would work, i have never found that to work for the older Microprose games - for M1 Tank Platoon and F-15 Strike Eagle 2 at least the only setting that works is CPU= 386_prefetch I think of those days gone by now as I am terminally ill and haven't much longer to live. Or, going after the terrorist leader who was escorted by a contingent of Migs just itching to shoot you down. I especially enjoyed the European theatre as well as the Mid-Eastern theatre, lurking in the background just to take a photograph of the enemy encapment with the special camera(it was infrared photography). The missions were hauntingly familiar a few years later. There were no glitches and the keyboard overlay came in very handy. The game was awsome cause it would run on that machine very well. An old Amstraad PC640, it came loaded with two 3 and 1/2 inch disk drives and maybe 640k RAM. I bought this game shortly after purchasing my first laptop. So, play it if you had done so in the past or if you love returning to the classics of yore, otherwise this game is not going to offer enough on its own, so you will need your very own ulterior motive to actually play it! Beginning of the Golden Age In any case, for a walk on a memory land, this game sure packs enough punch, but it sure does not match anything released current gen, not that anyone would expect that. You will also spend a lot of time reading the instruments, as the outside of the cabin sports really poor graphics, mostly static backgrounds with lite if any at times, 3D objects to be seen anywhere.
In terms of the crafts I rode, this game has modern jet fighter crafts, which are modeled ok, especially the interiors of the cockpits. Other than that, however, the game is very well balanced in terms of its use of physics and the game does feel better than other aerial combat sims I tried. But that was what the later 80s could afford in terms of flight sims. You know you are in for a rather shoddy 3D game when even the prerendered animations are jaggedy. Playable flight sim but with very crude graphics