Other people’s wisdom I have amended this snip as it came across. The ‘related posts’ plugin picks up cross references and so I have deleted references to articles on this wiki. I copied a post from forgotten wars forums about managing the software build. I posted this on http://davelevy.info, but while tidying it up in…
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These notes were originally created in 2008/2009. I copied them across to this wiki in 2013. Many of the links referred to are no longer available. This article is about how to run BG2 on an early windows build in multiplayer mode, it is quite long. I marked this article as deprecated today. I want…
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They say “DOSBox is an emulator that recreates a MS-DOS compatible environment (complete with Sound, Input, Graphics and even basic networking).” Their home page is at http://www.dosbox.com/. I have now used it to run Twinsen’s Little Big Adventure 2 (aka LBA2) on my Alienware Aurora. Here’s how! Download the Installer Install DosBox Read the documentation…
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Games, a blog ominbus
I originally referred to this as Nicopolis. Some games I thought I might play in 2009. Capitalism II See Wikipedia, Google and this fan site, called Capitalism Agglomerate. Its suggested to be the hardest game ever published, but is a serious business simulation. Republic, the Revolution Overthrow the communist state, I wrote about it on…
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URU : Ages of Myst
According to Wikipedia, published in 2003 and number four of the series. First installed on our Dell W98 machine and installed on the Dell XP machine in August 2008. This post talks about installation and stability and has a couple of walkthrough pointers.
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NWN Rolgan’s Trial
Rolgan’s Trial is a quest in the Neverwinter Nights Official Campaign. This text is mainly taken from cheat-da-game. The author says, This is a real tricky quest, and I haven’t been able to complete it perfectly, though I have tried very hard, I’m pretty sure there is no way to complete it perfectly. , however,…
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NWN Playing a Paladin
This article has links to the Bioware forums which are now broken. See BiowareCommunity Forums V1.It is the notes a made when running through the game the first time. I chose a Paladin and took some bad advice. I am really not sure about running the first four levels as a fighter to get the…
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NWN Multiplayer
This details my notes in making the game multiplayer. I am pretty certain that I bought a second copy to make this happen. I know I bought a second CD/DVD copy. I have some notes on logging in, and some links which were once helpful but have now gone away.
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NWN Leto
Leto, the Toolset Companion This is hosted at NWN Vault. The link to the hosting page is Leto, v3 (SoU / HotU).
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The Last Inn
This is a NWN community written module. I downloaded this and have tried to play it twice with a pre-made wizard character. In both games after a time, all the NPC’s in the village turn hostile, won’t talk and can’t be damaged. You can’t get the next quest hints. I may try and carry on,…
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Romance Guide for BG1NPC project
I made the HTML version for Domi and posted it on the snipsnap bliki, as Version 1 while it was being reviewed. It seems it’s still here. Jan 2018. It can be viewed using a browser at “BG1 NPC Project” Romance Guide [html], and is also available for download, see below. The BG1 NPC Project…
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Portraits in NWN
This was copied from wiki V.1 on 18th July 2013. Most of the external links are now broken need to be revised. The early Bioware links are broken forever! It is a short, and not very informative set of notes on adding portraits to NWN.
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Planescape Torment
Another Bioware game based on the Infinity Engine and the AD&D V2 rules. A lot of the BG2 modders community argue this is the best game of all. This game is set in Sigil, the cross roads of the planes, in the forgotton realms. Currently Amazon are offering second hand white label copies for upwards…
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NWN Stability
When playing NWN, I have had some serious stability problems while playing using my XP platforms. This article was written in Nov 2008 and is probably pretty redundant.
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Installing BG2 Mods using NSIS
I wanted to offer a seamless install experience for my Perils of Branwen (Mod), so I asked Jason Compton’s help from PPG to configure the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System. It hangs out here at sourceforge.
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