SMAC in XP windowed mode

[Bothkill]

There is a way to run SMAC in a window.


Try DXWnd.
You can find it at the end of this article.

The only problem is that you cannot see the cursor.
Although there are some options to fiddle with, I didn't managed to get the cursor working right.

Any idea about this?

 

[Bothkill]

After some search on the topic of windowed mode, I found this thread.

There is this version of DXWnd where the cursor is OK but you cannot see the movies (maybe a setting could do it?).

You'll have to fiddle with the settings and set the window size to 1024x768.

Anyone else interested to find a complete solution to windowing SMAC?

 

[wangyushi]

I can see the movies. The window is 1024＊768.

 

[Bothkill]

Well, the answer was all the time here:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=143989

in the #Q60.

 

[commodore_dude]

Greetings,
I figured it would be better to reopen a recent thread than start a new one. I'm a long time SMAC player (lucky enough to have the Planetary Pack which seems to be somewhat rare), I've had mixed success playing it on my Windows XP 64 bit box. I just reinstalled it and so far it is working almost perfectly at 1280x1024, but I'd really like to be able to play it in a window because alt-tab isn't working now. I downloaded DXWnd, added terran.exe and terranx.exe and used the settings shown at the apolyton link, but nothing happens. I THINK I'm doing this right, highlight terran, click the play icon, and then click the run icon, but it just runs the game full-screen. There seem to be some messages coming up in the bottom of the DXWnd window but they're all gibberish. I've tried setting the resolution to 1024 in the ini file to match the setting I chose in DXWnd, but that doesn't help. Anyone have this working in XP (ideally 64 bit to be safe, but I know that's a rare beast) that could share their settings?