SPWaW 2016 - Now Available

[Moltke71]

Many Thanks. Downloading now.[&o]

[Moltke71]

Fantastic job!! I can't believe I haven't played in years. In my dotage, I'm thinking about giving up writing reviews and just playing. SPWAW is a great example why a game doesn't have to be new to be premier in its genre.

[Moltke71]

The icons seem smaller. What res are you guys playing at?

[Major_Mess]

I'm p sure that I set the icon size to the smallest on the Preferences screen. You could fiddle with that.
I run the game full-screen on a 1680x1050 monitor.


HTH

Major Mess


Edit: and a big honkin' Thank You for your kind words Bismark. I'm just chuffed that so many people are liking it.

[Moltke71]

What would be the largest size in preferences? I wasn't able to get it above 3.

[Major_Mess]

Bismark


From the Field Manual supplied with SPWaW 2016:

• Unit Icon
This value determines the size of the icons that appear on the Battle Map.
Range is from: Large: XXX to Small: 3


When you get a chance, you should spend a few moments looking at the F.M.


cheers

MM

[Moltke71]

Did that and went to 10 but no change. Is there an accept button somewhere?

OK, I hit ESC and got XXX. That's the largest, I suppose.

[Major_Mess]

Ummmmmmmm,

Try this .. Type a 0 or a 1 in there. See how that looks. I'm on a stupid iPad right now so I can't check for you.

HTH

MM

[barkhorn45]

It would be nice if it supported an i7 processor.

[Major_Mess]

ORIGINAL: barkhorn45

It would be nice if it supported an i7 processor.

Yes it would.


I'm working on finding a solution for that right now.

Keep the Faith.


cheers

MM

[mudy]

I just want to share my clicking experience with SPWAW 2016 and artillery click bug feature on core i7 with Windows 10.

I manage to control the artillery menu by clicking at two tor three different location in the same hex / box. Its just like double click, but I need to move the mouse a bit for the second click, and additional third click just to make sure. So its a triple click.

The trick seems to work without having to press shift or shift/L button.
I tested with fixed affinity core 7 or core 0 but its no different (with control-shift-esc - detail tab - set affinity).
Also I remove the /affinity 80 from mech.exe and it still work fine.

A little bit difficult on the small artillery command box, but that's the fun.
Triple shifted clicks on each hex/box is just like playing game. Well it is a game...
Its a feature now

[Alpha77]

Howdie, this game is an alltime classic. Sadly the only "game" (which is more a monster) I can play at all is WITPAE at the time.

But as soon more time will download for sure, I still have XP in one of PCs so should have no probs running it. I still have 8.4 and H2H installed and both seem to work

[Kuokkanen]

SPWAW also works in Win7 & Win10. Only significant problem is some processors (at least Core i7) give hard time for game's bombard screen (arty bug)

[Fallschirmjager]

Would it be possible to play the Mega Campaigns with this?

[radic202]

As we say in French "Un Gros Merci mon Ami"!

[Major_Mess]

ORIGINAL: Fallschirmjager

Would it be possible to play the Mega Campaigns with this?

Unfortunately no.
Y'know, I'd be up for tackling one of those bad-boys but AFAIK the editor(s) for that flavour is propriety and that's where Matrix makes their money. Though TBF I haven't asked yet.

What up Erik? I've already converted at least 20 Campaigns so far on my resume.


MM

[Major_Mess]

ORIGINAL: radic202

As we say in French "Un Gros Merci mon Ami"!

De Rien



MM

[JEB Davis]

ORIGINAL: Major Mess

ORIGINAL: Fallschirmjager

Would it be possible to play the Mega Campaigns with this?

Unfortunately no.
Y'know, I'd be up for tackling one of those bad-boys but AFAIK the editor(s) for that flavour is propriety and that's where Matrix makes their money. Though TBF I haven't asked yet.

What up Erik? I've already converted at least 20 Campaigns so far on my resume.


MM

Yeah, I would pay for the megas if they were updated to SP:WaW 2016 and (and it's a big AND) they would work with Command & Control ON. Yes, I would pay for them even though the successor game is being worked on now.

So please, Matrix, let the Good Major Mess work on them!

[rwenstrup]

came out 21 years ago ... and still my favorite computer wargame...

Can't wait for the new version!

[cgoddard]

Just stumbled on this! Had never expected to ever run this again. Downloaded and it ran fine under Win10 which I was amazed at. Obviously fairly dated graphics etc but had a great play all the same.

Well done and thanks.