Status of Voyages of Discovery

[Retro-Nerd]

I haven't really a better direct connection to Psygore than you. Ask him via pm if it's possible, he's a nice guy.

Or open another Thread in this forum section and request a patch. Maybe another slave coder lurks in and offer his help, who knows.

[NewDeli]

@KG : I'll put it another way : There are far more ordinary Scotch Whiskys (like the brand most people drink in discos) than Irish Whiskeys.
So I consider it wiser to pick up a bottle of Irish Whiskey if you're not a connoisseur.

@Retro-Nerd : It's hard to believe he's just that ordinary nice guy.
In my mind, he should be compared with some kind of Shiva deity, gifted with 8 hands, or with a multiple identities bearing superhero, like Flash.

By the way, it could be an idea to make the CD audio tracks from VOD MS-DOS version available to download as mp3s, for Amiga VOD player's ears pleasure.

EDIT : The "soundtrack" of VoD is available on my web site. Thanks Retro-Nerd !

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Deleauvive

By the way, it could be an idea to make the CD audio tracks from VOD MS-DOS version available to download as mp3s, for Amiga VOD player's ears pleasure.

Do you have them as MP3s? Never heard the CD tracks. Are they really good or just 'polished' versions of the Amiga tracks? Anyway would be nice if anybody can share them

[Retro-Nerd]

Well, my German Christoph Kolumbus CD contains 29 tracks. Most of them are ship descriptions with German speech or short music snippets.

But there are a few tracks with beautiful music. I'm just ripping this tracks, stay tuned.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

Well, my German Christoph Kolumbus CD contains 29 tracks. Most of them are ship descriptions with German speech or short music snippets.

But there are a few tracks with beautiful music. I'm just ripping this tracks, stay tuned.

Thanks Retro

[Retro-Nerd]

Done!!!

http://.com/files/128417093/Kolumbus-VOD.rar

[Shoonay]

god bless you sir!

all'ya!

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

Done!!!

Nice tracks! Only four but good ones. Reminds me a bit of the 'Das schwarze Auge' CD tracks. Thanks again for sharing Retro!

[NewDeli]

Hi,


I just updated the Preinstalled HD version of Voyages of Discovery to netcomet.info ENG Download Pad. This one doesn't need the assign script anymore, since it was entirely installed with the provided installer (which doesn't work from my workbenches for mysterious reasons).

I can upload the German version if you're interested, but I wasn't able to try it with my setup.


If someone, anyone has a working original English version of this game, AGA or not, please let us know. The differences in the crunching routines from both versions seem to obliterate the idea of exchanging the resources files in order to get an unaltered English version out of the German version.

(if you don't understand, don't worry, I am making comments to myself )

[NewDeli]

Hi,


Hope you don't mind the "upping" of my July request, but as JOTD seems to be "back dans les bacs"* for good, I'd like him to examine the opportunity of WHDf'ying this game.

"Voyages" is one of the very few good counterparts to Civilization, and it stayed in the shadow of Sid Meyer's game for much too long, plus it has a great soundtrack, as Retro-Nerd pointed out. I am sure many, many gamers would enjoy rediscovering this fine Civ-like (and pirates-like), via a WHDload installer.


* "back dans les bacs" is our most famous rappers duo word to indicate they will be present in music stores, again with their new album on the shelves

[DamienD]

Seriously Deleauvive, can you please stop posting / deleting / reposting the exact same thing in this thread every few days. That's 4 times now...

Why are you doing this??? I'm sure whoever's attention you are trying to get will eventually read your post...

[NewDeli]

Originally Posted by Belgarath

Voyages of Discovery is not AGA enhanced

Agreed (yeah, it took a while before I realized). Kolumbus is the one which received the AGA blessing.
Not too sure why they did that, especially since the German version was released first . Neither was it made with lowering number of disks (6 VS 4) to swap in mind, since the game bears an installer.

Originally Posted by Belgarath

why you'd go looking at EAGER anyway for information.

Some reviews for a few "forgotten gems" are fine reads (Gravity...). Anyway, the claim that VoD is both AGA and ECS time is false. Eventually, it's up to Eager's author to edit the datasheet of this particular game accordingly (btw, seems the site is down as of now).