Heikki Hamalainen

Is there any possibility to donwnload new gold demo without soundfiles? Its rather time and money consuming file to donwnload with 56k/modem. I have soundfiles from previous beta demo so probably they will work also with gold demo.

The trick how to get COS future edition to work is little bit weird. I assume, that you have the package from underdogs site. After unpacking there is only future.exe, which you cannot run in Windows. In Dos it seems to run only with dos sound drivers installed. Otherwise it crashes after displaying text no soundhardware detected. Basically future.exe only renames some files and most importantly cos2.dat to cos2.exe and runs them. So you only have to rename cos2.dat to cos2.exe. Well, after that if you run cos2.exe from windows you get runtime error 200. This is usually caused by turbo pascal bug and can be tricked by using Moslo or some else program which slowers computer speed. Turbo pascal fix program doesnt work with this file. The best program that I know is called Turbo for Windows 95 and Windows NT. I dont remember where i did get it and. So You have to set cpu speed less than 50% of course depending on how fast computer you have. After that try running cos2. It doesnt always seems to work(runtime error 200), but keep trying and eventually game will start with no sound. Without lowering cpu speed you will try it forever. Then alt-tab to put turbo off and play. With sound i havent be able to make Cos work. I think that game must be started with future.exe and in my computer the system completely hangs after intro screen. It might be easier to buy old 486 pc with ISA-sounblaster and real dos.

Without disbanding units I think keeping France whole year is a very difficult task. At least France must have a HQ unit as soon as possible. And one mistake and its all lost. With disband and buy it is very easy to go offense early 41. First disband few french corps adn air fleet which wont ever do anything better than be a resource waste center. Then buy HQ and perhaps a tank for counterattacks. With UK i selled strat-bomber and HQ and bought Monty-HQ and then shipped it to France with air forces. I concentrated to make UK a air army and France ground army. French army doesnt need air support because AI waste its airunits to attack the northernmost fortress of Maginot. From another post I read that H.Cater has decided to lessen the points which one gets from disbanding. Probaply this makes disband and buy tactic useless.

I played few games of COS Future edition, which have some bug fixes and better AI. As mentioned, the game has very annoying features as limited unit production. Strategic Command is much more easier to play. This is something what i have been waiting for many years. Well, I havent tried of course the whole version, but wargaming havent be so fun since first Panzer General. Combat Mission, SPwaw and others are very good games, but in different way. More I play demo, more I like it and I havent tried to play it H2H yet.

I´ve had a sound problem. It seems that in my system the game cannot interrupt sound that is played. Example. When i start the program and click new game. I have to wait until intro.wav has played and then i hear click and can access the next screen. I made a workaround by deleting intro.wav and made a copy of click.wav. Then i renamed click.wav to intro.wav. I made same to theme.wav, because in campaign options screen i had to listen every time i clicked an option to end of theme.wav.