Comments on: Demo

By: Name (required)

Name (required) — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:23:23 +0000

Tried it. It’s a great upgrade to X-COM, although several aspects were unfinished (backgrounds for the UI among others). That’s to be expected for a demo though, so my impressions of this are great.

Look forwards to seeing the finished deal.

By: tcat92

tcat92 — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:42:15 +0000

Sheesh, too hard to get the demo running. The instructions weren’t that great. Shouldn’t have to come to the forum to figure out how to run it. The extractor needs more explanation like what Jfer said.

Thanks Jfer. It helped.

By: Jfer

Jfer — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:54:01 +0000

This is awesome! Just found out about this today. Cheers! Excellent work so far. I’ve just tried out the demo.

For others trying to get the demo to work, some notes:
- On Win7 or Vista, be sure to run the extractor elevated (right-click and select ‘Run as Administrator’). If you run the BAT file and nothing happens, you may need to be more specific on the JAVA location if your system doesn’t have a JAVA system variable set up. Right-click the BAT file and select edit. Change “Java” at the beginning to be the full path of your Java.exe file. You may need to put quotes around it if the path has spaces in it like mine does. My was located here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin
So my edited BAT file looks like:
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\java” -jar extractor/extractor.jar

Also my copy of X-COM I got from Steam… some have trouble finding their steam apps install location. It’s located here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\xcom ufo defense\XCOM

By: MTStalker

MTStalker — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:32:47 +0000

One of the possible bugs is that when an alien is killed by reaction fire with HE shells the game freezes, but you can press Alt+Tab and close it afterwards.

By: tomagabriel

tomagabriel — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:21:20 +0000

Installs and plays fine. No problems. It is indeed bringing back memories. Keep working on this. The upgraded graphics are really nice.

By: NeFuRii

NeFuRii — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:15:27 +0000

Game yes. Extractor – probably not.

By: Gre

Gre — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:43:54 +0000

can i run it without java?!

By: htmlsam

htmlsam — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:54:27 +0000

quite amazing stuff … keep up the good work nostalgia attack

By: pabi

pabi — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:49:45 +0000

@kentsfield – thx, it helped

By: NeFuRii

NeFuRii — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:08:16 +0000

Original battlescape UI is there in the game too . Although i dont remeber if it will work in the demo. you can try by changing config.cfg and editing newgui=true; to newgui=false;
Although be warned, game will probably crash. I think the old gui’s graphics isnt extracted. We decided to go with the new one since we can put more info on it.
We didnt do anything about music however its just extracted from the original.