Welcome to "the ancient art of war" google group

[John Lahmy]

This group is meant to be the 'interactive' part of "the ancient art
of war" strategy computer game fan page located at http://purl.oclc.org/net/aaow

This is an attempt to have something free, reliable and long lasting.

Since the start of this webpage I have tried many host and lost
everytime all the data ...

I hope this time the fan contributions won't be lost.

Enjoy !

John Lahmy.

[radar]

Hi! So good to see that there is still a little community centered
around this game. I've been playing it since the mid-to-late-1980s,
but have been away from it for a while. I recently reinstalled Windows
98 on a computer and MOSLO in order to return to this classic game.

I hope this message board will attract discussion on strategy and
tactics. I, myself, have been particularly interested in experimenting
with different formations in order to optimize battle outcomes, so
whatever insight you may share will be much appreciated.

Looking forward to the growth of this board.

On Mar 26, 7:32 am, John Lahmy <boo...@inbox.com> wrote:
> This group is meant to be the 'interactive' part of "the ancient art

> of war" strategy computer game fan page located athttp://purl.oclc.org/net/aaow

[Pelle Nilsson]

Hi,

On 4/22/08, radar <ap...@canada.com> wrote:

Hi! So good to see that there is still a little community centered
around this game. I've been playing it since the mid-to-late-1980s,
but have been away from it for a while. I recently reinstalled Windows
98 on a computer and MOSLO in order to return to this classic game.

Good to see some traffic here. :) I'm playing in Dosbox and it works well,
except I still haven't figured out how to access data disks.  If anyone have an
idea on how to fix that I would be happy because it would be fun to make some
new campaigns for the game again.

It is too bad that so far, even after so many years, this game is sort of a
dead-end - the first and last in it's genre. So many good ideas that have
yet to be incorporated into newer RTS. But with the current lack of interest in
RTS games in general, perhaps if someone picked up some of the best ideas from AAoW
it could revive that genre? Well, one can dream.

[John Lahmy]

Hi Pelle,

Thanks for message.

This one is easy to answer. I have checked today with files on the
ancient art of war site.

Uncompress the CGA aaow version and in a different folder a datadisk.
Then overwrite all the datadisk folder files in the aaow folder (don't
forget to backup first if you don't have a copy).

You can now play with the datadisk.

Cheers.

John Lahmy


PS : as Claude Martins's site is not available anymore, I will upload
his datadisk soon.

PPS : if you made your own datadisk, please feel free to send them to
me, I will post them too.

[Pelle Nilsson]

Hi,

On 5/25/08, John Lahmy <boo...@inbox.com> wrote:
>
> Uncompress the CGA aaow version and in a different folder a datadisk.
> Then overwrite all the datadisk folder files in the aaow folder (don't forget to backup first if you don't have a copy).

Thanks! I will give that a try some day when I find a copy of a
datadisk. So the trick is basically to merge the contents of the two
disks into one?

> PPS : if you made your own datadisk, please feel free to send them to
> me, I will post them too.
>

I think I have an old 360 kb floppy with scenarios I made in the late
80's, but not likely anything interesting, and the floppy is probably
unreadable now anyway. If I ever make any new scenarios I will be
happy to upload them.

Is the file format used for the scenarios known? That file sizes are
similar, and that there are a lot of plain text inside the files,
makes me optimistic they should be easy to reverse engineer (no
compression etc), but I haven't tried to.

--
/Pelle