Forum CM: The Operational Art of War:Volume 1

19.11.2004

20:33

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GenArieL [ Konsul ]

a ja cos wiem i nie powiem

swietlo [ Canaille Carthagienne ]

Puzio - a co to za barbarzyńska pora !!!
Ty studiujesz to masz zdrowie na gre od 23 do 04
;]]]]]

Mr.Puzio [ Konsul ]

GenAriel - nie wiem o co Ci chodzi ;)

Swietlo - hehe ciezko ale jakos sie da. Zaraz sie wezme za pliki z Toba, jak tylko je znajde, hmm a mozesz tak dla pewnosci raz jeszcze je wyslac ? [email protected] :)

19.11.2004

21:04

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GenArieL [ Konsul ]

Pawle bo powiem albo dzis browar albo .... . To co idziemy po robocie na browarka ???

Mr.Puzio [ Konsul ]

Hmm na browarka bym poszedl, ale nie wiem dzisiaj juz jedno wypilem chyba mi starczy, po za tym musze isc do kolegi by mi kupil Taktyke&Strategie.

GenArieL [ Konsul ]

wymikekasz na browarka z kolegą nie pojdziesz :) nie na 1 ale moze na 2 lub 3 ?? co ty na to

Mr.Puzio [ Konsul ]

no co Ty, przeca mnie na to nie stac :( a nie chem pasozytowac. Hmm a czemu mi tego na gg nie napiszesz ?
Smiecisz muj watek na temat TOAW-a

Ludzie, zlitujcie sie, niech ktos podniesie rekawice !!

jiser [ generał-major Zajcef ]

Puzio ~~>
Skusiłbym się z przyjemnością .... ale jestem posiadaczem CoW 1.03
Jak z Guderianem sprawdziliśmy, PBEMy z CoW nie są kompatybilne do wcześniejszych wersji.


ALE .. jakby kogoś to interesowało, właśnie znalazłem artykuł jak można samemu zbudować sobie TOAW - CoW <LOL>

jiser [ generał-major Zajcef ]

The Operational Art of War, Century of Warfare

BUILD IT YOURSELF FREEBIE


The Operational Art of War, Century of Warfare was released by TalonSoft in several versions in the late 90's. It claimed some impressive awards in its wargaming genre. It's a turn-based operational wargame on a hex grid with 'units' from about battalion to division level. As with many wargames the graphics are not meant to impress. The focus, instead, is on detail of play and a balance between realism and playability. As such "TOAW" is considered one the best in its class.

In recent years TalonSoft has dropped off the map and Take2Software supposedly took over. But finding a site to buy TOAW that actually works is another story. The game's writer (apparently independent of the company that owns TOAW) has stopped working on it to pursue other games. The last version was The Operational Art of War, Century of Warfare, 1.04.

It's possible to reconstruct nearly the entire game from files freely offered (not pirated) on the web. Some minor display functionality will be missing after following these directions, but the game is completely playable otherwise and completely "up-to-date" (since it is no longer maintained). Those parts that don't work revolve around missing BMPs and not some critical component and so are easy to fix.

By following these the directions the game is 'built up' from a distributable demo and an equally distributable patch plus a few fixes.

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1. Download the Demo

Download the TOAW-CW Demo (TOAW_CW_demo_1_06.zip) and extract it to a temp directory preserving subdirectories.

(Download ZIP here: https://www.warfarehq.com/toaw/TOAW_CW_demo_1_06.zip)

Create Program Files subdirectories as c:\Program Files\TalonSoft\TOAW-CW

From the Demo temp directory: Copy the subdirectories of CW_demo (graphics,sound, etc) to c:\Program Files\TalonSoft\TOAW-CW

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2. Download the full patch

Download the TOAW-CW patch (ToW104a.exe) and extract to the default directory (C:\Program Files\TalonSoft\TOAW-CW) allowing overwrite.

(Download self-extracting exe here: https://www.warfarehq.com/toaw/CoW104a.exe)

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3. Create the 'nocd' stub directory

Create a subdirectory under C:\Program Files\TalonSoft\TOAW-CW\ called nocd
Create a blank file in C:\Program Files\TalonSoft\TOAW-CW\nocd\ called TOAWintro.smk
(You can use notepad, File/SaveAs with no text entered.)

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4. Create registry entries

Run regedit, goto HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software
Create Keys (right click/new/key) for TalonSoft\The Operational Art of War, CW
The result is "folders" in this hierarchy "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\TalonSoft\The Operational Art of War, CW" (minus quotes)

Under the above hierarchy add string values (right click/new/string value) for

NAME DATA
cd_path C:\Program Files\TalonSoft\TOAW-CW\nocd
game_path C:\Program Files\TalonSoft\TOAW-CW

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At this point the game should be working with some BMP load errors that can be bypassed (hit enter key repeatedly). The Korea50-51 scenario should be completely playable. For other scenarios to 'look' right the missing 2D unit graphics have to be installed. Fortunately, a tinkering artist has created an alternate set of unit graphics for TOAW-CW.
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5. Install the missing 2D unit graphics

Download the alternate unit graphics from https://perso.wanadoo.fr/yves.lr/PetersMods/mod_units.ZIP
Extract these BMPs to c:\Program Files\TalonSoft\TOAW-CW\Graphics\ skipping overwrite.

(There are more graphics to play with for the game here: https://www.tdg.nu/indexdownload.html)

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6. Install missing 2d terrain graphics

The same guy who created the alt unit graphics created an alternate terrain set.

Download the alt terrain tile set here: https://perso.wanadoo.fr/yves.lr/PetersMods/mod_tiles.ZIP

If you want to use the alternate entirely, overwrite in the next step. If you just want to fill the missing tiles, don't overwrite. It will work either way.

Extract these BMPs to C:\Program Files\TalonSoft\TOAW-CW\Graphics

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Get rid of the most irritating graphics load errors:
In the graphics directory C:\Program Files\TalonSoft\TOAW-CW\graphics
Make a copy of i00000o.bmp and rename it i00000g.bmp
Make a copy of i00001t.bmp and rename it i00001y.bmp

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So what's still not working after all this? Not much. The 3D view will not work, but then it's not really 3D and most players don't use it. The "zoomed out" view will not show most unit colors because most of the small unit graphics are still absent (s_units***.bmp). Also in the zoomed out view some terrain tiles are missing like "arid". But you can play the game fine without the zoomed out view. A few of the normal sized unit graphics are not included in the alternate set, so there may be a few scenarios where half-invisible units are sneaking around. What little is left to 'fix' should be no problem with a paint program and some patience. To find out the names of unit or tile graphics that failed to load use the command line switch "toawlog" without quotes then view toawlog.txt in the game directory.

Mr.Puzio [ Konsul ]

O, niezle :) mam toaw-a cow, moze uda sie do cafe przemycic :)
Wrazie jak by sie udalo to zlapie cie na gg :)

19.11.2004

22:03

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GenArieL [ Konsul ]

Co w mojej cafe nei bedzie zadnych TAWÓW :P. TU sie gra W CM a nie w toaw