sebaspons

Hi Jel, I'll give yout tutorial another try. I see we are almost from the same country, some would say. Yoiu being from southern France, and me from Catalonia.... But I'm located in Israel this last 30 years or so. S.

He Jel. I found the link for the download of EAW with the "enter" instructions. I don't think is your work. Anyway maybe you can link it so people who have the same problem I did can maybe play the game again. https://abandonwaregames.net/game/european-air-war S.

Thank you for the tutorial, and now I understand why it didn't work for me. Looking at the screens you posted, I'm missing the -ETO with planesets for 1.29- in the lower box. It is either my install missing something, or my machine acting up again.... Can you help? I realize you may have better things to do with your spare time, so I'll understand if you give me up as a lost cause. Either way , I'm very grateful for your time and patience S.

Hi. Too much information at once! First of all, I think the "enter" procedure is finished. I went into the eaw.ini file and changed "playintro" to 0, and now the game starts without a hiccup. Thank you Jel. Now fot the DirSet picker ,you lost me. The reason I'm intrigued is because I had the impresion that I just had to select the mod I wanted to play, and the program would select lanscape, planes and missions... I really would like to play SEW because my father fought on that one (he was "drafted" for the wrong side) , and I had this romantic idea of puting things right as it were... You know, old people sh**. So, if you could help me out I'd be very grateful. I'm runing windos 7 home premium 32 bit, Mark, with Nvidia GeForce GT 730 card and directX 11. S. all

Hi Jel! I don't have the link and I don't know where I found it. It was a very frustrating week, and I literally tried everything suggested, but I do remember that it was an abandonware site. Maybe "my abandonware?".... I did try again one of your installs, specifically the 1.29 old map 15 may 2016 one. It didn't work till I performed the Enter dance and then it loaded OK. I found on top of the EAW.exe another Icon named "DSP128-9.exe" with a french flag. Opening it loads a Dir Set Picker with differents mods, but when I pick one, I can only play a quick mission because clicking on Pilot carreer sends me to the EAW main "vanila" screen. Am I missing something? And MarkEAW, I did try your links and advice. Nothing worked on my machine. I'm runing windows 7 home premium 32 bit...Thank you for your help. sebaspons

Hi, sorry again. First of all, none of your installs work for me, but I found an abandonware site with the game plus a 1.28 patch. On the install instructions it said that to make it work I had to press enter when the pilot light of the computer starts to blink, and press enter again when a black screen starts.... It works! I don't know how or why but it does. I don't know yet if it will also work for your installs, but I'm going to try as soon as I lose the fear that it was just a first time luck kind of thing. I dont know if I feel adventorous enough to try your 150 and 160.... Thank you again for your time sebastian pons

Sorry for my tardiness, sometimes life interfears with important things. To resume: Von Beerhoffen, I did as you sugested in two maners. I created a shortcut for the Install.Exe on my desktop. installed it and I applied the pro patch. Doesn't work. I created a shortcut on the descktop of the eaw.exe after installing, it didn't work. And answering Jel (would you be Mr. Jelly perhaps?), I thought that the files on your link were patches but you seem to say they are ful patched installs? . And are UAW150 and UAW160 also patches? S. sebastian

Hi, be adviced that the link you sent me is for the original Sierra game, and not for a EAW mod. As it happens I still have the floppies of the original game.... S.

Thank you!! I remember a long time ago I used to play this game, I hope it runs on my machine. And reading your post I see that you also get the error warning. It is very strange because I've played EAW in this machine not a long time ago, therefore my frustration/ If you happen to find a solution, please let me know. Me, I'll keep on looking and trying. S. sebastian

Me again. To add above; The 4 DLLs left behind/resident are d3d.dll, Dsetup.dll, eaw.exe and SMACK32.dll S

Well, nothing works. I tried all your solutions and I am still stuck. I beguin to thing that there is something peculiar with my machine. The folder I created in C/ was called EAW, and inside it I pasted the contents of my CD, and patched as per your advice. But here is the thing; when deleting the whole folder there are 4 DLLs that refused to go, and I have to reboot the computer and then delete them. It is like there is sometning resident or still working even when the program is closed, because when I click on the EXE file I can see the pilot of the PC blinking for a long time as if it were looking for something.... Am I making sense? As I said before I am at my wits end, and being very stuborn I'll keep on trying as long as sugestions keep on coming in. I wanted to add that I'm runing Windows 7 home 32 bit S. sebastian

Nop. I did as you sugested. I copied from Program files to a newly created directory. Deleted EAW from PP using Revo Uninstalled to get rid of entries in the registry. Back to the new folder, installed v.1.26 (the No CD patch) clicked on EAW.exe, and nothing. So I deleted the folder, creted a new one copied all the files from the CD, applied the EAW Pro overwriting as necessary, clicked on the exe file.....and nothing. I'm almost at the end of my wits. It doesn't make sense. I hope that somebody had the same problem and solved it. It could be a stupid reason. S. sebastian

Hi. I ment patch 1.28c, and as I stated, EAW doesn't work for me. I have made a clean install of Micro Prose v1.0 and I copied over it EAW Pro as recommended. I got a glimpse of the main screen and it desapeared. After that, I don't get to any screen, and the game refuse to load. Enjoy Brittany S. sebastian

Hi Mark. Game installed using the autorun from the CD to Program Files/Micro Prose. I do have a eaw.ini file into the directory, and in case you wonder, the 2 debug entrys do figure in it. I went all paranoic and changed my antivirus because on another game did interfer with loading , but I still have a problem, only now it won't even load the main screen and I get a message that the application can not be opened.... S. sebastian

Thankyou for your pront reply. What I've done so far; Deleted AEW and got rid to all mention from the registry. Downloaded EAW PRO/ Installed EAW (full) again. Extracted the PRO version into my fresh install/ Rebooted my computer (just in case.... Clicked on the icon and I got the main screen of the Pro version, but it lasted just a seccond and I was thrown back to the descktop. Tryed again and I got the message that the application can't be opened. Anything else I should do? S. Sebastian