![]() Luckily you managed to obtain three weeks leave and a Gencore Hawk fighter. You ran to your quarters and found them torn apart. It will be difficult for them to follow you there. Hurry! Head towards Savara, the freeworld. Now you must go, before they hunt you down. Today I would reason that they discovered this, and found me to finish the job. They did not know my memory is holographic in nature, and cannot be wiped out. They captured me two days ago and tried to erase my memory as a warning. Microsol wants it, and will eliminate anyone who knows of its existence. Harness it, and engines will soon be obsolete. It is a new source of power called Gravitium. And, do you remember that glowing rock we discovered in the mines west of here? It was more than just a pretty mineral. You are familiar with the corporation that controls the terraformation of Tyrian, called Microsol. Still, what I am about to tell you will mark you, so listen well. Even after death, I could not bear to lose you. "My friend.you must leave Tyrian now, or you will be killed. ![]() The only lead you have is what Buce told you before he died. Someone killed your best friend, and if it's the last thing you do, you're going to find out why. Yesterday Buce was shot in the back by a waiting hoverdrone that disappeared into the sky before you could blink, let alone stop it. One of your fellow workers and close friends, Buce Quesillac, was a Huzudra. The Hazudra are a lizard-like race recently discovered in a nearby asteroid field. Your latest assignment from the Interplanetary Council is Tyrian, a proposed trading world on the edge of the sector, near Hazudra territory. After many years of war, however, you prefer blasting rock formations to vaporizing enemy starships. You execute more hair raising maneuvers in a day than most League trained pilots do during the course of their whole career. For three years, it has been your job to fly over tough-to-navigate planetary formations and check for habitable locations on newly terraformed planets. You are Trent Hawkins, a terraformation pilot. Yet it still comes up with the message "Error 253: Sound effects disabled." when I try to select it. Guess what? SoundBlaster is coloured white when VDMsound is run, and not when it isn't. This error, however, is not displayed with Windows XP/VDMsound.Ī further piece of evidence that SB emulation is kind of working in Win9x is that, with Tyrian2k, the setup program colours white a 'detected' sound device. I think this shows, however, that Tyrian IS able to produce the sound effects, but seems to be unwilling to do so. The sound effects device remains at 'no effects', the music slows down, and *when I change selection, it now produces the 'change' sound effect*. With the original Tyrian, I select SoundBlaster, it pauses a while, then I hear a kind of banging sound (I recognise this as a Tyrian sound effect) and it displays the message "Error 253: Sound effects disabled.". Some very strange stuff is happening when I run setup.exe and select SoundBlaster as my sound card. I've just been doing some more experimenting, and I'm convinced that it should be possible to get the sound effects for Tyrian(2k) working in Windows 95/98. □ĪNYWAY what this means is that Tyrian will *always* have problems in XP (as long as it remains a DOS app) whether it's the patched original or Tyrian2k, so let's switch attention to Win9x (this kind of thing was one of the main reasons I wanted the Win9x VDMsound □. Can you tell that I despise the people that have the current license for the Tyrian source? 'Bout time they released it so that somebody can port it to a native Windows XP application, instead of tyring to squeeze money out of an 8 year old game for an 8 year old OS. Makes you wonder whether the morons who released Tyrian 2000 just ran that on the Tyrian executable and replaced a few graphics. ![]() So I ran it on the original Tyrian, and now that works on my computer too, but guess what? *Identical* sound problems as Tyrian 2000. I did, and just downloaded the 'CTBPPAT' patch. ![]() Just do a Quick Search on Tyrian 2000 and you'll see the fun we had with that one on XP. Even if you configure it to use no audio at all, performance will be terrible.
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