Some questions before I get started

[Seriyu]

Hey, I recently downloaded Gearhead 1 and before starting it, I wanted to know, are there any known issues with vista?

And on top of that, I noticed the instructions on making a .config file (arena.cfg to be specific), and I just put "WINDOW" into the text file without anything else, because, obviously, I want windowed. Will that work, or do I have to fill out the rest of the stuff in the wordpad file with instructions on how to make arena.cfg?

And one last one, I assumed this came tiled, is this right? If it has two seperate versions (ascii/tiled) then which .exe is which? If it doesn't have two seperate versions, what does cosplay.exe do?

Thanks in advance.

[Phil Munoz]

I have not played gearhead 1 on vista, but I'm going to try it out soon.

That config file should work.

The SDL version is tiled.  You have to download the graphics separately.  It can be found in the sourceforge page.

cosplay.exe lets you test colour schemes on sprites.

You might also want to read up on the guides on the wiki:

Guides

[Frumple]

Both ASCII Gearheads work pretty well on Vista, for me. GH2 has this thing where you can't really resize the window (That I've been able to figure out. Royal pain, that.), and GH1's a pain to do that at all... and there's some issues with doing so, if you're not careful. Screen buffer must match what it says in the .cfg or things go wonky.

Shouldn't be a problem if you're just putting window in, though. O'course, the window flag doesn't even do anything for the non-SDL build, which runs windowed naturally, so...

That's the only issues... that I know of, with the ASCII version. Everything else is as mistah Munoz says. Don't play the SDL version personally, so I've no clue if that'll run smoothly or not, but Vista's a tricky beast, so your mileage may vary, et al. Good luck, heh.

[Seriyu]

Yeah, I've heard vista's pretty wonky, getting different results on different machines despite doing the same things, but thanks, I'll be sure to download the graphics off sourceforge.

I'll be sure to look at those guides too. Thanks for dealing with all the questions, both of you. :p

[Snakebit STI]

I don't know about GH, but GH2 SDL runs fine on my Vista machine. Usually ;>_>

[Seriyu]

Well the main thing I'm trying to avoid is big issues that'd cause hard crashes, which I really doubt would happen, but it happened while trying out nethack a while back, and it actually corrupted a part of my harddrive.

Nethack probably didn't do it, but It's made me vaguely paranoid so I figured I'd check it out. :p

And not downloading GH2 for now, but maybe later. Figured I'd start out with the first one and see if I like it.

And one last question, where can I find the graphic set (tileset?) that's used in the "screenshots" link? I assume it's the one on sourceforge? If so, where is it? I looked at the files section for gearhead on sourceforge but didn't find any filename with a "tiles" or "graphics" in it. Thanks in advance (again). :p

[Frumple]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gearhead/files/gea rhead/gh-1100-sdlimage.zip/

Seems to be the direct link, if it works. The gh-1100-sdlimage.zip is what you're looking for. In it will be the "Image" folder, perhaps already unzipping to /Gearhead/ -- just get the image folder into the main GH one and you're good to go.

[Seriyu]

Okay, thanks again. I'll get started tomarrow most likely. Thanks for all the help, again.

Again again, I suppose. :p