Star Trek: Birth of the Federation

Retail version in English or German language, shipped as 1.0.2 or updated from 1.0 with the official patch

Application Details:

Version:	1.0.2
License:	Retail
URL:
Votes:	1
Latest Rating:	Platinum
Latest Wine Version Tested:	5.6-staging

Maintainers: About Maintainership

Maquis196

Test Results

Old test results

The test results you have selected are very old and may not represent the current state of Wine.

Selected Test Results

What works

Everything, including the videos.

Even things that were historically flakey on windows like evading in combat, not a problem.

What does not

Workarounds

What was not tested

Multiplayer as per usual.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU: Nvidia
Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

Works out the box, videos, combat, UI, screen resolution, quitting, the music.

Completed a game to the end, only one random crash which is more than par with Windows.

Note to anyone reading this, there are better ways of installing this game these days with community installs. Worth checking it out.

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Current	Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal" (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Apr 27 2020	5.6-staging	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	Maquis196
Show	Debian GNU/Linux 10.x "Buster"	Jul 08 2019	4.0.1	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	Lewis Cowles
Show	Debian GNU/Linux 7.x "Wheezy" x86_64	Feb 03 2013	1.5.23	Yes	Yes	No	Silver	Maquis196
Show	Gentoo Linux x86_64	Mar 25 2012	1.5.0	Yes	Yes	No	Silver	Maquis196
Show	Gentoo Linux x86_64	Feb 09 2012	1.4-rc2	Yes	Yes	No	Silver	Maquis196

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
4066	Online Play Doesn't Work (DirectPlay)	NEW		View
21015	Star Trek: Birth of the Federation crashes	CLOSED	FIXED	View
29852	Star Trek Birth of the Federation - No Videos (negative height used as request for inverted frame decompressing)	CLOSED	FIXED	View
46125	DOS input redirection attempts are not passed into DOSBox temporary config file	UNCONFIRMED		View

HowTo / Notes

Multiplayer HOWTO

For multiplayer; simply run

"winetricks directplay" in your Birth of the Federation prefix as this will enable you to join multiplayer games over TCP/IP.

The following ports must be reachable on the host machine, and may need to be port forwarded if you are behind a router:

TCP 2300

UDP 2350, 47624

The game seems to hang when trying to "cancel" out of multiplayer configuration screens; if this happens, you may need to kill the game ("killall trek.exe" from the command line). Be sure to also kill any .exe processes which are still running (using a tool such as ksysguard) to ensure you can still use multiplayer later. If you are running fullscreen and killing the game leaves you with the wrong screen resolution, try issuing the following command:

xrandr -s 1280x1024

replacing "1280x1024" with your desired resolution.

Sound problems

The game's sound can work perfectly with ALSA, in later versions even with the default dmix (i.e. mixing sound with other apps like music players).

First, check you Wine sound settings in the winecfg configuration tool. Test your sound with some other application (like WinAmp). Some ALSA errors may show up on your console and sound will still work, so test it before trying to hunt all the errors down.

If you still don't have sound in the game, check that the option SOUNDON=ON is set in stbof.ini.

HOWTO - Guide

Status

Perfect support of single player gaming, including sound and 3D graphics
Problems with network gaming. Hosting crashes game after you
select race screen, but it is possible to join game hosted by a Windows
user.

Installation

There are two ways of installing the game within Wine:

Run SETUP.EXE from the CD or a mounted CD image and install as
you would on Windows. This also creates Start Menu links which should
show up in your window manager (confirmed for KDE).
Create symlinks to the files of an install of the game on a
Windows partition. Those can be read-only if you make local copies of
these files:

*.sav
msdaemon.dll
crash.log
stbof.ini

Running the game

There's a few ways to ensure the game finds the CD-ROM it looks for on startup:

Mount a CD image of the game to somewhere (e.g. mount -o loop,ro /var/botf.iso /mnt/image) and map the mount directory to a "CD-ROM"-type drive in Wine. Then enter that drive as CDPATH in stbof.ini.
Copy the contents of the CD to a local directory and map that
directory to a "CD-ROM"-type drive in Wine. Then enter that drive as
CDPATH in stbof.ini.
Replace trek.exe with a non-CD-checking version. You'll have to find those on your own, though...

The game slowdown after playing for a while (~50-200 rounds) due to
memory leaks and the random crashes during gameplay are no better or
worse than they've always been on Windows.

Note that the game grabs focus and changes the resolution to 800x600. It
will stay at that if the game crashes (see above), and you have to set
it back to your normal resolution with a command like xrandr -s 1152x864. You won't have this problem if you use Wine's Virtual Desktop mode.

Comments

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Works on Buster
by Lewis Cowles on Monday July 8th 2019, 14:34

Debian buster using their repo's WINE

wine-4.0 (Debian 4.0-2)

Plays with as many issues as windows has (random crashes). Installed 1.0.2 + modern PC patches in a wineprefix using winetricks

*dplayx
*dpnet
*dpnhpast
*dpnsvr.exe (native)
*dpwsockx.exe (native)

window manager decorat & control windows

windows version windows 98

audio via pulseaudio

Does spam console with I'm assuming errors (mixed with info for sure, filtered to be unique)

FOUND REGISTRY KEY: [SOFTWARE\MICROPROSE\STAR TREK: BOTF]
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 15216 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 2158 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 10834 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 10698 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 10460 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11146 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11248 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11536 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11622 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11956 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11888 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12140 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12180 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12340 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12172 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12554 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12574 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12744 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12562 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12806 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12588 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12834 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12694 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12794 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12756 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12956 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12610 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12718 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12716 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12500 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12596 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12466 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12514 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12398 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12434 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12092 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12148 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11876 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12032 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11690 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11580 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11308 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11374 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11102 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11194 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 10650 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 10562 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 10166 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 3976 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 10236 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 9924 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 10072 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 10482 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 10594 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 10864 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 10948 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11130 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11060 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11416 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11370 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11670 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11462 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11718 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11652 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11786 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11884 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11716 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11934 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11794 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11828 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12116 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11234 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11408 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11322 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11612 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11566 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11748 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11582 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11574 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11554 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11584 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11368 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11384 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11326 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11246 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 11174 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 10968 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 10758 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 10646 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 10430 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 10492 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 10326 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 10614 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 10560 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 4120 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 3076 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 5750 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 8362 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 9766 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 10408 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12504 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 12692 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 35086 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 15776 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 14870 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 16240 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 15860 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 15028 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 22564 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 19040 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 21760 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 23388 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 22708 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 23586 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 20640 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 22626 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 33092 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 26690 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 38174 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 25476 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 32824 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 28680 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 27284 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 37822 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 42290 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 46928 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 43742 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 42108 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 51008 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 48912 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 54538 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 53402 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 53608 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 55900 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 62092 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 59616 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 62010 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 62956 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 61990 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 64134 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 64058 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 64050 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 63970 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 64156 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 64064 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 64106 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 64042 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 63884 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 64080 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 64172 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 63962 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 63932 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 64062 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 64066 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 63950 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 64082 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 64192 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 64206 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 64068 (CV)
0031:err:iccvid:decode_cinepak CVID: corruption 73050 (QT/AVI) != 64122 (CV)
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-Mudd
by Alan on Sunday October 5th 2014, 13:46

Is there any way to use this 'cheat code' command in Wine on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS? I haven't had much luck and am fairly inexperienced with Wine (and Linux, for that matter).

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RE: -Mudd
by Maquis196 on Sunday October 5th 2014, 15:33

hhmmm, I'd try

wine stbotf.exe -- -Mudd

or

wine "stbotf.exe -Mudd"

I cant recall exactly which will work but should be a variation of that. If nothing works let me know and I'll go dig out my copy to test for you.

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RE: -Mudd
by Alan on Sunday October 5th 2014, 16:30

I tried a few variations but no luck.

The path on the virtual drive is "c:/botf/trek.exe" but if you try to use

wine c:/botf/trek.exe

or any of the seemingly logical variations, I get

FOUND REGISTRY KEY: [SOFTWARE\MICROPROSE\STAR TREK: BOTF]
The instruction at 0x00511398 referenced memory at 0x00000000.
The memory could not be read.

double clicking the icon from the virtual drive folder works fine, however, which likely does not mean much. I also tried to use RUN in the wine command prompt and had the same registry key output.

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Patch
by Pavel on Saturday November 5th 2011, 14:29

I am unable apply any patches, is there some trick what I must now?

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Who's up for a multiplayer game?
by Maquis196 on Wednesday January 19th 2011, 9:40

Might take an age to organise doing it this method but it's been so long... I'll even play it in windows if I have to!

Dibs on Romulans :P but will gladly play as Cardassians if against a non-cloaky side (even from lvl1 which as we know is a huge challange if against Feds or Ferengi, damn minor races)

Joys of MP botf... so badly balanced but would be fun with 5 people!

Cheers,
Maq

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RE: Who's up for a multiplayer game?
by Chris on Friday January 21st 2011, 15:48

Count me in!

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RE: Who's up for a multiplayer game?
by Daniel on Tuesday November 8th 2011, 13:51

I'd love to give it a go... but I haven't figured out how to host it anymore.. used to be able to a few years ago with wine... but i forgot what needed to be done... anyone have any suggestions?

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RE: Who's up for a multiplayer game?
by Maquis196 on Tuesday November 8th 2011, 14:04

Well from testing the host would need to be on windows (ugh). but to get a multiplayer game with more then 2 players going... that would be fun.

I say fun, I still think this is one of the most imbalanced games going, from lvl1 the federation player would win, from lvl5 the Romulan/Klingon player (unless both players are Rom/Kli then it would be stalemate... stupidily easy to sacrifice one ship to take out other sides troop transports).

Still, I'm game :D

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