Comments on: Magic: The Gathering Strikes Again http://www.natesimpson.com/blog/archives/2004/08/30/magic-the-gathering-strikes-again/ Thoughts and updates on art, writing, music, programming, and more. Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:32:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Skeeve http://www.natesimpson.com/blog/archives/2004/08/30/magic-the-gathering-strikes-again/#comment-186984 Skeeve Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:38:41 +0000 http://www.natesimpson.com/blog/archives/2004/08/30/magic-the-gathering-strikes-again/#comment-186984 I run the game in a Win 98 VM and it works perfect. I also have the manalink 1.32 update to fix the shandlar opertaing too fast issue. I fortuneatly still have my original disks and a Win 98 disk. I ran Win 98 VM from Windows XP and now am running one created in Windows 7 64 bit. If you have the disks and can install it its the way to go. Best luck, this game is still awesome...just wish the computer wasn't so stupid, like giant growthing MY creatures and actually blocking with Ali of Cairo instead of letting him do his thing. I do love the speed at which you can play. Hope this info helps. Skeeve I run the game in a Win 98 VM and it works perfect. I also have the manalink 1.32 update to fix the shandlar opertaing too fast issue. I fortuneatly still have my original disks and a Win 98 disk. I ran Win 98 VM from Windows XP and now am running one created in Windows 7 64 bit. If you have the disks and can install it its the way to go. Best luck, this game is still awesome…just wish the computer wasn’t so stupid, like giant growthing MY creatures and actually blocking with Ali of Cairo instead of letting him do his thing. I do love the speed at which you can play. Hope this info helps.

Skeeve

]]> By: lawrence hughes http://www.natesimpson.com/blog/archives/2004/08/30/magic-the-gathering-strikes-again/#comment-131405 lawrence hughes Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:43:25 +0000 http://www.natesimpson.com/blog/archives/2004/08/30/magic-the-gathering-strikes-again/#comment-131405 downloaded iso from microprose. cannot get shandalar to boot up. i have vista...can someone please help me. downloaded iso from microprose. cannot get shandalar to boot up. i have vista…can someone please help me.

]]> By: David http://www.natesimpson.com/blog/archives/2004/08/30/magic-the-gathering-strikes-again/#comment-131388 David Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:34:04 +0000 http://www.natesimpson.com/blog/archives/2004/08/30/magic-the-gathering-strikes-again/#comment-131388 The screen resolution was the issue for me, too! I don't think you need to go all the way down to 800x600, though. I was playing fine at 1152x864, but when I got a new monitor and switched to 1280x1024, the cardartlib.dll crash started happening occasionally. Dropping the resolution back down fixes it. (1024x768 works fine, too.) (The error happened only when attempting to show a large picture of a card -- maybe the program just can't translate those images to high resolutions.) The screen resolution was the issue for me, too! I don’t think you need to go all the way down to 800×600, though. I was playing fine at 1152×864, but when I got a new monitor and switched to 1280×1024, the cardartlib.dll crash started happening occasionally. Dropping the resolution back down fixes it. (1024×768 works fine, too.)

(The error happened only when attempting to show a large picture of a card — maybe the program just can’t translate those images to high resolutions.)

]]> By: Greatful One http://www.natesimpson.com/blog/archives/2004/08/30/magic-the-gathering-strikes-again/#comment-54501 Greatful One Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:06:54 +0000 http://www.natesimpson.com/blog/archives/2004/08/30/magic-the-gathering-strikes-again/#comment-54501 *bows down* Let me start out by saying, you are the man. I was actually doing the same amount of searching for an answer as you were. Thanks to you I can actually play this game. Instead of just sitting on the solution, you posted it and as such led me to the answer. I hope other people can follow in your lead. Thanks again.<!-- X-spaminator-passed: IP check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: email check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author check --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: empty field - author url, 1 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author url --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: comment body --> *bows down*
Let me start out by saying, you are the man.
I was actually doing the same amount of searching for an answer as you were. Thanks to you I can actually play this game.
Instead of just sitting on the solution, you posted it and as such led me to the answer. I hope other people can follow in your lead.
Thanks again.

]]> By: Diggo http://www.natesimpson.com/blog/archives/2004/08/30/magic-the-gathering-strikes-again/#comment-42569 Diggo Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:58:54 +0000 http://www.natesimpson.com/blog/archives/2004/08/30/magic-the-gathering-strikes-again/#comment-42569 Thanks a lot, dude :)<!-- X-spaminator-passed: IP check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: email check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author url --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: comment body --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: url dashes, 1 --> Thanks a lot, dude :)

]]> By: mtg_nut http://www.natesimpson.com/blog/archives/2004/08/30/magic-the-gathering-strikes-again/#comment-32837 mtg_nut Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:31:27 +0000 http://www.natesimpson.com/blog/archives/2004/08/30/magic-the-gathering-strikes-again/#comment-32837 Yanto, I had the same problem with the deck builder, and traced it to a process running in the background by ending a bunch of them one by one. The process that caused my conflict was opwarese2.exe. Hope this helps.<!-- X-spaminator-passed: IP check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: email check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author check --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: empty field - author url, 1 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author url --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: comment body --> Yanto,

I had the same problem with the deck builder, and traced it to a process running in the background by ending a bunch of them one by one. The process that caused my conflict was opwarese2.exe.

Hope this helps.

]]> By: Yanto Schaap http://www.natesimpson.com/blog/archives/2004/08/30/magic-the-gathering-strikes-again/#comment-30582 Yanto Schaap Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:37:38 +0000 http://www.natesimpson.com/blog/archives/2004/08/30/magic-the-gathering-strikes-again/#comment-30582 I got the game from underdogs. Installed fine and all, however, one big problem. Underdogs claim that the installation is the whole package, Shandalar, Spells of Ancients, and Duels. Two problems for me: 1.In deck builder, only one card appears in the selectable (all cards). This sole card is the Air Elemental. WHERE THE HELL ARE THE REST!! I can't make a deck this way, so I had to this the long way. I had to copy a play deck, load the master.xls document and find the keys for the appropriate cards. By the way, if some of u noticed, there are some power cards like Mirror Universe and other goodies which are in the database, but are unplayable in the game. You can load your deck in the deck builder after saving and view the cards, but you cant select the cards like in the first version (shandalar). What a nuisance. Anybody have the same problem? Any solutions?? I love this game so much i'll do anything to solve it. (Readme claims that if u dont have the first two versions, your cards are not visible via the deck builder. If this is so, how come I can build a deck and still play it via txt coding?!!) 2.I cant play strip mine, dual land, etc.. in shandalar. I'd appreciate any solutions to this problem. Thanx a lot guys!!!<!-- X-spaminator-passed: IP check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: email check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author check --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: empty field - author url, 1 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author url --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: comment body --> I got the game from underdogs. Installed fine and all, however, one big problem. Underdogs claim that the installation is the whole package, Shandalar, Spells of Ancients, and Duels. Two problems for me:

1.In deck builder, only one card appears in the selectable (all cards). This sole card is the Air Elemental. WHERE THE HELL ARE THE REST!! I can’t make a deck this way, so I had to this the long way. I had to copy a play deck, load the master.xls document and find the keys for the appropriate cards. By the way, if some of u noticed, there are some power cards like Mirror Universe and other goodies which are in the database, but are unplayable in the game. You can load your deck in the deck builder after saving and view the cards, but you cant select the cards like in the first version (shandalar). What a nuisance. Anybody have the same problem? Any solutions?? I love this game so much i’ll do anything to solve it. (Readme claims that if u dont have the first two versions, your cards are not visible via the deck builder. If this is so, how come I can build a deck and still play it via txt coding?!!)

2.I cant play strip mine, dual land, etc.. in shandalar.

I’d appreciate any solutions to this problem. Thanx a lot guys!!!

]]> By: Jeremy http://www.natesimpson.com/blog/archives/2004/08/30/magic-the-gathering-strikes-again/#comment-26692 Jeremy Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:26:43 +0000 http://www.natesimpson.com/blog/archives/2004/08/30/magic-the-gathering-strikes-again/#comment-26692 none of this works for me, I always get the cardartlib thing and I dunno how to work with executables so well<!-- X-spaminator-passed: IP check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: email check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author check --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: empty field - author url, 1 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author url --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: comment body --> none of this works for me, I always get the cardartlib thing and I dunno how to work with executables so well

]]> By: eriadoc http://www.natesimpson.com/blog/archives/2004/08/30/magic-the-gathering-strikes-again/#comment-26425 eriadoc Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:12:23 +0000 http://www.natesimpson.com/blog/archives/2004/08/30/magic-the-gathering-strikes-again/#comment-26425 I have this game running at home and at work, and it s very good. However, I found that the same things did not work to get it running in both locations. After a bit of research (OK, lots of message board threads), I discovered that the problem can be any number of things. For me, the Logitech G15 applets killed it at home. When I killed those TSR progs, it ran just fine. At work, it was my video driver and my antivirus prog. I recommend killing all background apps for anyone still having issues.<!-- X-spaminator-passed: IP check --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: email check - @hotmail.com, 1 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: email check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author check --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: empty field - author url, 1 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author url --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: comment body --> I have this game running at home and at work, and it s very good. However, I found that the same things did not work to get it running in both locations. After a bit of research (OK, lots of message board threads), I discovered that the problem can be any number of things. For me, the Logitech G15 applets killed it at home. When I killed those TSR progs, it ran just fine. At work, it was my video driver and my antivirus prog.

I recommend killing all background apps for anyone still having issues.

]]> By: voodoo http://www.natesimpson.com/blog/archives/2004/08/30/magic-the-gathering-strikes-again/#comment-22802 voodoo Mon, 05 May 2008 04:59:06 +0000 http://www.natesimpson.com/blog/archives/2004/08/30/magic-the-gathering-strikes-again/#comment-22802 Hi to all. It's amazing to play this again, thank you! Researching on this matter, I also learned that if you right-click the executable, go to Properties, choose the Compatibility tab, you can change it to Windows 98. Cheers! v<!-- X-spaminator-passed: IP check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: email check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author check --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: empty field - author url, 1 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author url --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: comment body --> Hi to all.
It’s amazing to play this again, thank you!

Researching on this matter, I also learned that if you right-click the executable, go to Properties, choose the Compatibility tab, you can change it to Windows 98.

Cheers!

v

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