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DBBNG
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I was playing Xargon last night and I made a save file before i went to bed and i closed out my browser. Now today I played it again and lost my save file. Is there anyway to keep save files when playing games online, because if i lost my Xargon im sure i lost my other save files too.
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The disk images are read-only. It has to be that way so that visitors can't overwrite or delete files and ruin the game for everyone else. Any change that you make to the disk image -- such as saving your game -- will not be retained. To save your progress, you'll have to download the game and play it offline.
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Aww alright. Unfortunately my computer is 64 bit and when I downloaded the game it said incompatible with my computer. Thanks for responding.
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DBBNG wrote:Unfortunately my computer is 64 bit and when I downloaded the game it said incompatible with my computer.
This problem is more than sufficiently solved by using DOSBox, a programme that emulates a computer running DOS. Here's a tutorial to get you started. Xargon runs in DOSBox pretty well.
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DOSBox, by the way, is what lets you play the game online! When you play Xargon on this site, you're playing it in a Java port of DOSBox called jDosbox. The fact that you can play it online proves that you can play it offline in DOSBox.
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If only that Xargon port was finished...
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It is finished :-P What, you want fancy features like full-screen and scaling? Well that's no longer a port now is it?? ;-)
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I have taken the liberty to split the part of the conversation concerning source ports and moved it here.
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