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[Haroldwolf]

Your link directs to a website seized by the FBI

[Donner]

The FBI took Mega Upload down.

[Donner]

MechCommander 2 Download - perfectly legal

« on: May 10, 2007, 06:30:35 PM »



Just in case someone wants to familiarize themselves a bit with the whole MW atmosphere, here's a little gift from our friends at the world's largest software company:
http://www.microsoft...&displaylang=en

That is a fully working download of MechCommander 2. Yeah, that's MechCommander, not MechWarrior - strategy, not first person shooter. It is called Shared Source because basically, you'd be able to work on the source files for the game, but to play, that isn't necessary.


P.S. This is a post by a member of the MWLL forums, and the original page is here:

http://forum.mechliv...php?topic=314.0
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[bikerbass77]

Brakkyn, on 12 December 2011 - 04:54 PM, said:

Okay, I downloaded MechCommander Gold from the link provided above in the OP's post. It's an .iso file called "mcg". I have downloaded and installed DAEMON Tools Lite. I open DAEMON, locate the mcg.iso file on my system, and add it to the Image Catalog. I select "mcg.iso" in the Image Catalog, and then click the "Mount" button. It adds an identical item under Recently Used Images.

At the bottom of the program window, I double-click the only icon given, labelled: [DT - 0] (G:) MCG

This brings up MCG (G:) and shows all the files for the game.

If I double-click the icon named MCX (which I believe is the .exe) the game will start, the opening cnematic will run, and the first briefing for the Original Campaign will play, but when I click "Begin Mission", the game crashes and gives me a chain of ASSERT error messages.

Also, if I click on the Purchasing or 'Mech Lab buttons in the game interface, I lose all further interaction with the interface, and have to make a concerted effort to get the game to close.

TL;DR it's not working for me.

It does not work being run from the disk image, I believe it needs to be able to write to disk. It did the same for me when I first tried it then worked fine once I had copied the files to my hard drive.

[bikerbass77]

Andar89, on 12 December 2011 - 06:00 PM, said:

easiest way to make it run, especially with win 7: use the auto build in Virtual PC software.
All you need is a old windows copy.

myself is running a win 95 PC on my Vista 32bit system.
Makes me able to play even the oldest stuff by emulating win 95

Actually, that is the hard way. Especially as most modern virtual machines do not have windows 95 drivers readily available. In comparison all you need to do to get it working without a VM is

1) Download the image and mount it to a virtual drive.
2) Copy the contents of the virtual drive to your hard drive (I used C:\Program Files (x86)\MCG).
3) Go into the new directory and write click on MCX.EXE then select Properties from the drop down box.
4) Select the Compatibility tab and select Windows XP SP3 (others may work but I have not tested them) and check the box to run as Administrator.

You are now ready to run the game by double clicking on MCX.EXE.

Once I read a forum post on how to do this the whole thing took about 5 minuets. When I tried to get virtual machines to work with Windows 95 to play old games, the setup process took the best part of a day (mainly hunting for drivers) and then found that VM software does not support 3d acceleration for any windows version before 2000.

Edited by Hans Davion, 31 August 2012 - 10:33 AM.

[Sander the Shark]

"Dammit, sir, I need some help!"
"Here it comes."

[Sander the Shark]

Andar89, on 14 December 2011 - 09:54 AM, said:

Edit:
look at the vehicle list

saw

J. Edgar light Hover tank

I lol'd

Believe it or not, that's a real Battletech canon vehicle. http://www.sarna.net/wiki/J._Edgar

[Sander the Shark]

I have somewhere in my possession the original game manual for Mechcommander. The artwork for the in-game mechs is staggeringly beautiful. If I can find it I'll scan them and share.

[ThoR294]

http://mechcommander.co.uk/index/

just go there guys... MCG!

[kalabaddon]

wow brought back memories, I remember a multiplayer match where I suckered the enemy in to a city with my scout ( I had some JJ enabled ac/20 loadout and nothing else mechs waiting behind a building) he followed the scout mech with his full forces in to a dead end ally and my mechs powered up and JJ'd over the buildings and BAM. it was nasty!!!!!

[AlphariusII]

Sander the Shark, on 31 August 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

I have somewhere in my possession the original game manual for Mechcommander. The artwork for the in-game mechs is staggeringly beautiful. If I can find it I'll scan them and share.

I lost mine years ago, and I still wonder where it disappeared to. You're absolutely correct, the artwork is absolutely beautiful.

Also, the MC1 mission where you have to kill a convoy before it reaches a gate guarded by two Raven-Js? **** that, I spent hours more on that one mission than the rest of the game.

[Sander the Shark]

AlphariusII, on 01 September 2012 - 07:19 PM, said:

I lost mine years ago, and I still wonder where it disappeared to. You're absolutely correct, the artwork is absolutely beautiful.

Also, the MC1 mission where you have to kill a convoy before it reaches a gate guarded by two Raven-Js? **** that, I spent hours more on that one mission than the rest of the game.

If you bring a bunch of long-range weapons you can run up to the river and engage the clanner mechs and even provoke the Cougars to jumping over to your side. I'm usually able to destroy the Cougars and at least severely damage both Hunchbacks that way. The convoy moves slow enough that I have time to get across the bridge and position my forces before the vehicles show up. Its really easy to take the convoy down if you don't have to deal with four mechs on their terms.

[William Petersen]

Does this work on a 64 bit system?

[Bitslizer]

William Petersen, on 03 September 2012 - 06:42 PM, said:

Does this work on a 64 bit system?

yes it does, i run it in WIn 8 consumer preview 64bit

[RMR]

So I need a bit of help with this. I installed the Gold ISO in my Windows 7 64bit PC. I put it on a disk and it runs just fine. The problem is in the colors. They look like the picture one this website...

http://www.thegameen...d-on-windows-7/

Now I followed the instructions on that site but to no avail. The colors are the same ingame so its impossible to see anything. I have been messing with the compatibility settings but that does nothing as well.

SO... Any thoughts?

[RMR]

BTW sorry to be a thread digger.