Comments on: Strange Adventures In Infinite Space! Free!

By: rhubarb

rhubarb — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:35:03 +0000

I had the same problem on Vista, fixed it by changing from Aero to Windows Standard, rather than Vista Basic.

By: jay

jay — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:40:01 +0000

This is great. When I have money I’ll have to get Weird Worlds.

By: online casinos

online casinos — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:19:50 +0000

Liked this game too! yay

By: Rosti

Rosti — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:36:13 +0000

My (new found) love for this game is boundless. Thanks, Gillen. Thillen.

By: Pod

Pod — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:06:42 +0000

I remember this game havning an advert on the frontpage of HOTU for years. Played the demo a few times because of that!

By: Shadrach

Shadrach — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:41:44 +0000

And while you’re there do give the excellent WinSPMBT and WinSPWW2 a go, ridiculously detailed ww2 turnbased games. Hex ftw!

By: phuzz

phuzz — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:37:19 +0000

@Shadowcat
Thanks for that, now I can play at work :)

By: Shadowcat

Shadowcat — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:54:32 +0000

To everyone having trouble with the game… Digital Eel released a modified version of the SAIS source code when Weird Worlds came out. Iikka changed the code to use SDL for the release, so that version might work better for you.

I compiled it at the time, and made some minor additions (detailed below). You can find that version at ISF.

You’ll need “SDL libraries” (241K) and “SAIS 1.601″ (197K). Unpack them both into the game directory, and then just run sais.exe instead of strange.exe. You could try using a more recent version of the SDL libraries if you still have problems, but these were the ones I compiled against.

The additions are:

1. Command-line options.

-w : run game in window (this version defaults to full-screen).
-mod modname : bypass the mod selector, and start modname directly.
-title title : name the window title (useful in conjunction with -w)

The latter two are mainly useful when creating shortcuts for specific mods.

2. Custom “sounds” directory for mods (or rather, mod-makers).

Works just like the “graphics” and “gamedata” directories, in that you need only include the new sounds (but maintaining the correct directory structure as used for the default sounds), and the defaults will be used for everything else. (n.b. Iikka actually did most of the work for this change by porting the game to SDL in the first place).

I didn’t change the in-game version number (I hadn’t formally assigned a version until writing this), so it will still say 1.5 when you play.

By: Shadowcat

Shadowcat — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:35:26 +0000

caesarbear: I encountered the occasional bug in the weeks that I spent addicted to SAIS (I honestly played this game for more hours than I put into most big-budget releases), but they really were very occasional. Certainly bad luck on that happening on your first outing, but you should definitely give it another try.

By: caesarbear

caesarbear — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:12:26 +0000

I got it to run after trying Ben L’s trick of alt-tabing and killing explore.exe. Thanks Ben.

First star I go to, I trade some randomly named things with a bird, second star I encounter hostiles. One hostile fighter flees the battle. After destroying the other hostiles I chase the fleeing ship, but I can’t catch it. In fact I can’t do anything. The tactical combat just keeps going without end. My only option is to quit the game. Fucking pain in the ass for nothing. I think this freebie is best left lost in space.

By: caesarbear

caesarbear — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:42:57 +0000

I also get messed up colors, but I’m on Win XP sp3.

By: The Dark One

The Dark One — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:41:36 +0000

I want Metamathic Adventures in Infinite Fun Space.