Magic the Gathering on XP
I want to install Magic the Gathering the PC Game. At the beginning of the installation is said that this game was tetste for Win95 and then the installation crashes. So i set up the compatibility to Win95 and installed.
I want to install Magic the Gathering the PC Game. At the beginning of the installation is said that this game was tetste for Win95 and then the installation crashes. So i set up the compatibility to Win95 and installed. When i tried to start the game i have got an error wich says: "File->D:\Newmagic\sources\sid\glue.c, Line-> 708 Could Not Load Dave's Extra Cool Timer" and then follows a support telephone number. What does that mean and what can i do?
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2Berley819
2AJPLeBlanc
2CeanD
It seems, you not read this thread carefully. For any _good_ results with MtG all of you are needed manalink patch 1.32. It can be found in many places, but underdogs is first, that came in mind. Yes, it fixes speed issues. But (bad thing) for all versions before 3.0 it needs manalink itself :| Approx. 60Mb, it must be on MPS ftp. As full underdogs' rip is 75Mb, I suggest it. When it will be available again (now!).
2floppykat
Underdogs repeatedly hide link and places it back again. But not file itself. So if you catch direct link once, you will be know always, where to get it. No, I won't to give it here, in public place, due to respect to Underdogs' policy. BTW _now_ it's available. Hurry up!
2AJPLeBlanc
2CeanD
It seems, you not read this thread carefully. For any _good_ results with MtG all of you are needed manalink patch 1.32. It can be found in many places, but underdogs is first, that came in mind. Yes, it fixes speed issues. But (bad thing) for all versions before 3.0 it needs manalink itself :| Approx. 60Mb, it must be on MPS ftp. As full underdogs' rip is 75Mb, I suggest it. When it will be available again (now!).
2floppykat
Underdogs repeatedly hide link and places it back again. But not file itself. So if you catch direct link once, you will be know always, where to get it. No, I won't to give it here, in public place, due to respect to Underdogs' policy. BTW _now_ it's available. Hurry up!
Hello,
I am one of the ones that had problems with the deck editor as well. Only one blue card appeared (elemental?). I am running XP pro here at the house and at work. Running the game from over at underdogs. Works excellent at work, only had the problem at home.
I am using a Logitech LX 500 wireless mouse/keyboard desktop. I tried up[censored] to the latest Logitech driver/SetPoint... no go on that attempt. Once I remove SetPoint from memory the editor runs fine now. I can unload it to play the game and reload once I am done. I haven't tried Shandalar. More interested in dueling and deckbuilding. I especially like the sealed deck tourney. You have to run with what you're given.
My 2 cent fix.
Rekh
I am one of the ones that had problems with the deck editor as well. Only one blue card appeared (elemental?). I am running XP pro here at the house and at work. Running the game from over at underdogs. Works excellent at work, only had the problem at home.
I am using a Logitech LX 500 wireless mouse/keyboard desktop. I tried up[censored] to the latest Logitech driver/SetPoint... no go on that attempt. Once I remove SetPoint from memory the editor runs fine now. I can unload it to play the game and reload once I am done. I haven't tried Shandalar. More interested in dueling and deckbuilding. I especially like the sealed deck tourney. You have to run with what you're given.
My 2 cent fix.
Rekh
I have the original 3 discs that I purchased back in 97 (and when they came out) and am looking to play. I also kept seeing that there was a download that took everything into account to play on XP. The underdogs link I get keeps bringing me to a search page. Am I doing somwthing wrong? Is there a way to get this file from someone?
Darmanian
Darmanian
here is roughly how i finally managed to get the underdogs version of the game to run in xp. no downloads of separate patches were necessary.
1. i extracted everything to a folder, it makes no difference where, and then ran magicg.part01.exe into a magicg subfolder.
2. i ran setup.bat, which is essential.
3. i ran the reg files, magic.reg and serial.reg.
4. i extracted the included manalink132.zip to a separate folder.
5. i ran the setup file for the manalink patch in that folder, making sure to specify the correct game folder.
6. i ran the reg files again, though with no-serial.reg this time. i don't think it matters much for singleplayer.
7. game worked perfectly by running magic.exe.
my girlfriend and i have also tested the multiplayer portion of the game, and it works great. click the 'nonet' box as the game starts up, then select tcp/ip and click 'connect'. in the box that pops up you should input your friend's ip, and he/she should follow the same procedure but input your ip in the box. your usernames should both show up in the network window, and you can invite or accept invitations for duels. i think no-serial.reg is necessary for multiplayer gaming, according to the nfo.
as for the deck editor, i had problems with missing text, but not my girlfriend. she has SP2 and i don't, so perhaps that is why. i solved it by setting the compatibility mode for deck.exe to "windows 95", a method that by the way does not solve the missing text in shandalar.exe. no mouse-related crashes in the deck editor, though we both have logitech mice running via usb.
the game does crash mirc sporadically, though, but the game itself seems unaffected. also, if you want to play without sound (as there are no sound settings to my knowledge), simply rename the DuelSounds and Sounds folders.
1. i extracted everything to a folder, it makes no difference where, and then ran magicg.part01.exe into a magicg subfolder.
2. i ran setup.bat, which is essential.
3. i ran the reg files, magic.reg and serial.reg.
4. i extracted the included manalink132.zip to a separate folder.
5. i ran the setup file for the manalink patch in that folder, making sure to specify the correct game folder.
6. i ran the reg files again, though with no-serial.reg this time. i don't think it matters much for singleplayer.
7. game worked perfectly by running magic.exe.
my girlfriend and i have also tested the multiplayer portion of the game, and it works great. click the 'nonet' box as the game starts up, then select tcp/ip and click 'connect'. in the box that pops up you should input your friend's ip, and he/she should follow the same procedure but input your ip in the box. your usernames should both show up in the network window, and you can invite or accept invitations for duels. i think no-serial.reg is necessary for multiplayer gaming, according to the nfo.
as for the deck editor, i had problems with missing text, but not my girlfriend. she has SP2 and i don't, so perhaps that is why. i solved it by setting the compatibility mode for deck.exe to "windows 95", a method that by the way does not solve the missing text in shandalar.exe. no mouse-related crashes in the deck editor, though we both have logitech mice running via usb.
the game does crash mirc sporadically, though, but the game itself seems unaffected. also, if you want to play without sound (as there are no sound settings to my knowledge), simply rename the DuelSounds and Sounds folders.
by the way, if anyone is having problems getting the file itself (the underdogs torrent did not work for me), the same file is "hosted" at torrentspy.com, where it's the 83.74 M file with the title "Magic the Gathering, Spells of the Ancients, Duel of the Planeswalkers and Manalink (All in One)".
2cybrus
There is still last "after patch 1.32 bug", that can be repaired with my "Application compatibility fix". It was earlier in that thread and Nils Devine place it here: http://shalandar.com/installation.html#xp
If you want to know, WHAT is this bug: text in some places are missing - at least this is variable text in villages ("Wise man says..." with empty place instead valuable information) and buy/sell cards. In _buy_ case there is simple "pseudo fix" - because text is "Do you want to buy this card y/n?", you can simply press "y" when card enlarges. Or "n". But I strongly recommend my fix, because in other cases text is matters.
2darmanian
Underdogs lately lost it's domain name. More information available here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_of_the_Underdogs. So _now_ you can reach site by address http://www.the-underdogs.info/. But as you have all originals, than all that you need is patch itself. You can found it in various places, just try search for "manalink patch 1.32" in any search machine (my favorite www.google.com for example ).
There is still last "after patch 1.32 bug", that can be repaired with my "Application compatibility fix". It was earlier in that thread and Nils Devine place it here: http://shalandar.com/installation.html#xp
If you want to know, WHAT is this bug: text in some places are missing - at least this is variable text in villages ("Wise man says..." with empty place instead valuable information) and buy/sell cards. In _buy_ case there is simple "pseudo fix" - because text is "Do you want to buy this card y/n?", you can simply press "y" when card enlarges. Or "n". But I strongly recommend my fix, because in other cases text is matters.
2darmanian
Underdogs lately lost it's domain name. More information available here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_of_the_Underdogs. So _now_ you can reach site by address http://www.the-underdogs.info/. But as you have all originals, than all that you need is patch itself. You can found it in various places, just try search for "manalink patch 1.32" in any search machine (my favorite www.google.com for example ).
Originally posted by ShadowM:
Quote:I'd been hoping to find a solution to play this game in XP for what seems like forever, then I stumbled across this answer in another forum,
"If you're finding it impossible to find a copy of MTG, SotA, and DotP, I would note that the Home of the Underdogs has them, and would suggest going to http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=1550 - you can download MTG from there, and it comes with SotA and DotP already integrated.
Simple instructions for getting it installed and working: Extract that somewhere, run 'setup.bat', wait for it to finish, then move it all to c:\magic\Program, double-click magic.reg to make sure it gets into the registry (setup.bat tries to do it but might not succeed or something), then download the unofficial 1.3.2 manalink patch (from the link on that page), and install that (It expects MTG to be in c:\magic\Program). After that's all done, you can move it where-ever you want, and just run magic.exe to run it."
This worked a treat and even solves the CPU speed issues. This game still rocks!
Important tips are: 1.After doing ALL the above run the game exe's in Windows2000 compatablity mode 2.Use Y/N to buy cards in town 3.If when switching between areas you find yourself with a blank screen simply left click once and the graphics pop right up.
Quote:I'd been hoping to find a solution to play this game in XP for what seems like forever, then I stumbled across this answer in another forum,
"If you're finding it impossible to find a copy of MTG, SotA, and DotP, I would note that the Home of the Underdogs has them, and would suggest going to http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=1550 - you can download MTG from there, and it comes with SotA and DotP already integrated.
Simple instructions for getting it installed and working: Extract that somewhere, run 'setup.bat', wait for it to finish, then move it all to c:\magic\Program, double-click magic.reg to make sure it gets into the registry (setup.bat tries to do it but might not succeed or something), then download the unofficial 1.3.2 manalink patch (from the link on that page), and install that (It expects MTG to be in c:\magic\Program). After that's all done, you can move it where-ever you want, and just run magic.exe to run it."
This worked a treat and even solves the CPU speed issues. This game still rocks!
Important tips are: 1.After doing ALL the above run the game exe's in Windows2000 compatablity mode 2.Use Y/N to buy cards in town 3.If when switching between areas you find yourself with a blank screen simply left click once and the graphics pop right up.
No issues with MTG: Completly worked with XP:
1)Post #173029 As supine Junior Member said. "Download the file from torrentspy.com, where it's the 83.74 M file with the title "Magic the Gathering, Spells of the Ancients, Duel of the Planeswalkers and Manalink (All in One)".
2) Install the original three CD. Make sure to set the setup.exe windows 95 compatiable mode. Make sure to install the net 10 intranet piece, even if your not going to use the intranet.
3) Post #173028 Supine instructions for the patches downloaded from torrentspy.com worked. Make sure you install the 1.3.2 manalink no matter what, It came with the 83.74 M file downloaded from torrentspy.com.
4) Copy all program files from the patch download, over laying the original installations from the original CD's located at c:\Magic\Programs.
5) Make sure all of your *.exe files do not have the compatiablity mode on to 95. Un-click the combatibility mode for all exe's.
6) As meationed earlier in a previous posting, Make sure the display setting are around VGA mode.
Me and my wife thank you, We are enjoying one of our most favorite games again.
NOte: If you do not have the original CD, then you will have to continue with the steps working with Getting yourself Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit, Microsoft SQL server as meationed by others posts http://shalandar.com/installation.html#xp. Was in the process of continueing through the steps when everything worked just great.
1)Post #173029 As supine Junior Member said. "Download the file from torrentspy.com, where it's the 83.74 M file with the title "Magic the Gathering, Spells of the Ancients, Duel of the Planeswalkers and Manalink (All in One)".
2) Install the original three CD. Make sure to set the setup.exe windows 95 compatiable mode. Make sure to install the net 10 intranet piece, even if your not going to use the intranet.
3) Post #173028 Supine instructions for the patches downloaded from torrentspy.com worked. Make sure you install the 1.3.2 manalink no matter what, It came with the 83.74 M file downloaded from torrentspy.com.
4) Copy all program files from the patch download, over laying the original installations from the original CD's located at c:\Magic\Programs.
5) Make sure all of your *.exe files do not have the compatiablity mode on to 95. Un-click the combatibility mode for all exe's.
6) As meationed earlier in a previous posting, Make sure the display setting are around VGA mode.
Me and my wife thank you, We are enjoying one of our most favorite games again.
NOte: If you do not have the original CD, then you will have to continue with the steps working with Getting yourself Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit, Microsoft SQL server as meationed by others posts http://shalandar.com/installation.html#xp. Was in the process of continueing through the steps when everything worked just great.
Hi all,
I recently downloaded Magic duels of the planewalkers on the underdogs site. All works fine, and I have the TCP/IP option to play with (fourth item of the manalink interface). But when I enter the public IP adress of my friend (and he does the same with mine), we don't see each other in our list. Do you know if it's because we have a router between us? And then, do you know wich port we must route?
The underdogs version of manalink seems to be the 1.3.2 (written on the manalink interface). Do I still need to run the 1.3.2 patch?
I precise that I'm on Windows XP SP1.
Thanks for your replies, and maybe see you on manalink
[Edited by frid on 2006-06-05 13:33:57]
I recently downloaded Magic duels of the planewalkers on the underdogs site. All works fine, and I have the TCP/IP option to play with (fourth item of the manalink interface). But when I enter the public IP adress of my friend (and he does the same with mine), we don't see each other in our list. Do you know if it's because we have a router between us? And then, do you know wich port we must route?
The underdogs version of manalink seems to be the 1.3.2 (written on the manalink interface). Do I still need to run the 1.3.2 patch?
I precise that I'm on Windows XP SP1.
Thanks for your replies, and maybe see you on manalink
[Edited by frid on 2006-06-05 13:33:57]
I have a problem playing MTG shandalar on win xp. When playing a duel against an enemy suddenly a window pop ups with the message "file ---> line ---> 1899. Addcard error: no more room in cd to add a card.Please call mps customer support". This only shows up sometimes when a duel is long. Did anyone else encounter this problem? If yes, how did u solve this? Please help me.
Also i have a problem with the deck editing. Once i am in a town and want to edit my deck, there is only the option to include black, white,red, blue,green cards into the deck. I don't know how i can add the land cards (not the mana ones)into my deck. The buttons on the lower part of the screen doesn't seem to work at all.
2raware1
1. Step 2) in your instruction is obsolete, afaik. For work it enough to install last disk, DotP, but with patch 1.3.2 (it opens all cards from 2.0).
2. ACT needed only in one mean: for missing text. Without it my MtG 3.0 not shows "Y/N" prompts and some variable texts in cities.
2 lilychan
1. Standard question: patch 1.3.2 installed?
2. With deck - it's almost all working fine on my machine. Buttons works as expected, but one bug - if I turn off _all_ (with function "all off"), then all cards disappeared from list. It's ok. If I immediately turn all on - cards reappears. Ok. But if I turn off, then turn on some or all buttons - card disappears from sight forewer. %) It need to leave screen and return to it again. So I can only recommend not turn off all with that function, but manually. %)
1. Step 2) in your instruction is obsolete, afaik. For work it enough to install last disk, DotP, but with patch 1.3.2 (it opens all cards from 2.0).
2. ACT needed only in one mean: for missing text. Without it my MtG 3.0 not shows "Y/N" prompts and some variable texts in cities.
2 lilychan
1. Standard question: patch 1.3.2 installed?
2. With deck - it's almost all working fine on my machine. Buttons works as expected, but one bug - if I turn off _all_ (with function "all off"), then all cards disappeared from list. It's ok. If I immediately turn all on - cards reappears. Ok. But if I turn off, then turn on some or all buttons - card disappears from sight forewer. %) It need to leave screen and return to it again. So I can only recommend not turn off all with that function, but manually. %)
2jlohand
Patch fixes some AI bugs.
But this is not AI bug (not always . It depends from difficulty level of game. More difficulty -> less AI errors. _Some_ error remains even on highest difficulty, but very-very rare. And in most cases it's "not using card-using mana" error, not "wrong target" errors.
Patch fixes some AI bugs.
But this is not AI bug (not always . It depends from difficulty level of game. More difficulty -> less AI errors. _Some_ error remains even on highest difficulty, but very-very rare. And in most cases it's "not using card-using mana" error, not "wrong target" errors.
Hey all...
After combing through this thread and being about ready to pull my eyes out with a spoon after all the tried and failed solutions to getting this game working, I FINALLY managed.
Even better, as best I can tell, EVERYTHING works as it's supposed to (even the stupid deck editor which was never willing to behave for me).
Even though most of the suggestions here didn't fix my issues specifically, I wanted to give a little back for everyone trying to help others out and figured I'd drop a few bits in here that might help the next person who comes along.
1. Yes, Home of the Underdogs has moved. You can find MtG on their site at this link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=1550
When I tried, the direct download sent me to a wrong page after entering the code, but the torrent download did work perfectly which I snagged with some old version of bitcomet or something.
2. After having no luck whatsoever with that version working any better than my flawed CD versions, I checked around and it turns out you can actually get Virtual PC 2004 (or 2007 for that matter but I just grabbed 2004) for FREE. No longer a timed trial, MS actually just made 'em 100% free for the downloading. You can get to them here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
Now it's pretty easy to get that set up really - just run the installation. You will need a version of windows to install however, either owning the CD and serial for 95/98 or *ahem* "finding" one I suppose would work too. Anyways, once Virtual PC is running, put a windows CD in a CD drive, and on the "CD" menu, select to use that drive and then boot the virtual PC from it and run windows setup. It takes care of the rest and nothing was very hard to figure out.
One big tip though is that once you've got a virtual windows running, you can add "shared folders" by using the virtual PC console's "settings" menu. Add a folder somewhere that's easy to find (from your 'real' PC) and just unzip any files you'll be needing to sub-folders there. Makes transfering them to the virtual machine a snap.
Finally, I did end up just using the original CD's for all 3 games (MtG, then Spells, then Duels) and then patching up with the Manalink 132 patch.
Works flawlessly so far and even seems to be playing movies and such just fine -even including using the tutorial properly with the interface and whatnot.
Since I have no one here to LAN play with, multiplay is the only part I can't verify, but I suspect it would work fine if I could test it.
Sorry it got so long winded, but I was really happy to have it working and figured if any bit of it helps someone else too, so much the better.
Happy dueling!
-Kitty
After combing through this thread and being about ready to pull my eyes out with a spoon after all the tried and failed solutions to getting this game working, I FINALLY managed.
Even better, as best I can tell, EVERYTHING works as it's supposed to (even the stupid deck editor which was never willing to behave for me).
Even though most of the suggestions here didn't fix my issues specifically, I wanted to give a little back for everyone trying to help others out and figured I'd drop a few bits in here that might help the next person who comes along.
1. Yes, Home of the Underdogs has moved. You can find MtG on their site at this link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=1550
When I tried, the direct download sent me to a wrong page after entering the code, but the torrent download did work perfectly which I snagged with some old version of bitcomet or something.
2. After having no luck whatsoever with that version working any better than my flawed CD versions, I checked around and it turns out you can actually get Virtual PC 2004 (or 2007 for that matter but I just grabbed 2004) for FREE. No longer a timed trial, MS actually just made 'em 100% free for the downloading. You can get to them here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
Now it's pretty easy to get that set up really - just run the installation. You will need a version of windows to install however, either owning the CD and serial for 95/98 or *ahem* "finding" one I suppose would work too. Anyways, once Virtual PC is running, put a windows CD in a CD drive, and on the "CD" menu, select to use that drive and then boot the virtual PC from it and run windows setup. It takes care of the rest and nothing was very hard to figure out.
One big tip though is that once you've got a virtual windows running, you can add "shared folders" by using the virtual PC console's "settings" menu. Add a folder somewhere that's easy to find (from your 'real' PC) and just unzip any files you'll be needing to sub-folders there. Makes transfering them to the virtual machine a snap.
Finally, I did end up just using the original CD's for all 3 games (MtG, then Spells, then Duels) and then patching up with the Manalink 132 patch.
Works flawlessly so far and even seems to be playing movies and such just fine -even including using the tutorial properly with the interface and whatnot.
Since I have no one here to LAN play with, multiplay is the only part I can't verify, but I suspect it would work fine if I could test it.
Sorry it got so long winded, but I was really happy to have it working and figured if any bit of it helps someone else too, so much the better.
Happy dueling!
-Kitty
