Wolfenstein Single-Player Demo

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This is the single-player demo of Return to Castle Wolfenstein. It includes two missions from the beginning of the game, titled "Escape from the Castle" and "Surviving the Catacombs" completed with the associated cinematics.

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Download: RTCW sp demo (114Mb)

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*1. In the ISO9660 file-system (the red ISO icon next to the root folder), texts are still stored using SBCS or MBCS characters.

SBCS (Single Byte Character Set) and MBCS (Multi Byte Character Set) text decoding
is based on system installed 'Code Pages'. These Code pages tell the OS but also IsoBuster how to decode the text strings before displaying them on screen. For Latin character texts there really is no problem, but for other character texts this often poses difficulties (e.g. Far and Middle East Asia and Europe).

The code page selection feature is there for the following reason :

Some CD Mastering Applications use the ANSI Code page to encode texts in the ISO file system where others use the OEM code page.

Again, for Latin texts no problem, but for some languages (typically texts where more than one byte per character is needed) decoding then needs to be done using the same code page (which is not recorded on the CD).

If not the same code page is used then, some characters cannot be displayed properly.
Real life situations encountered, reported by Russian users, using Russian CDs on Russian systems but it's likely these problems can also occur in the Far and Middle East. Hence this 'neat' feature (in the Options).

*2. All displayed texts in IsoBuster use a MS Windows default font 'MS Sans Serif' and the Charset is set to DEFAULT_CHARSET to be able to cope with all languages on all (many many) language versions of MS Windows. For the Japanese translation this poses problems as (apparently) the Japanese installation is not able to pick the correct font with these settings. Therefore IsoBuster has been enhanced to dynamically (no user intervention required) change the Charset if needed. This kind of support is done by means of the language dlls.

#1 nant` on 14 Dec 2001 - 19:14

Whoa... Played the demo, this rocks. I'm gonna buy it.

#2 Martin on 15 Dec 2001 - 01:20

Hehe already bought the game...it's SWEET!

#3 John on 15 Dec 2001 - 05:36

I have Doom 95 and installed it on my Windows XP System. I configured the game to use mouse controls but now no funcition will work with the mouse. My mouse is a Microsoft Trackball Explorer and my video card is a ATI Radeon 64 - my default resolution is 1024X768 - Running and AMD Athelon Firebird 1.2gig w/ 256 Megs PC100 Memory Any suggestions would sure be appreciated.

#4 [_DJ_] on 16 Dec 2001 - 13:02

john dont you think this may just be the wrong place for you to be posting that the comment in this thread which is to do with the rtcw demo not you probs your having with an age old 95 game which most likely give probs like that ... [b]This comment was last edited by [_DJ_] at 08:04 EST on 16 Dec 2001 - 13:04 GMT[/b]

#5 johnberb on 17 Dec 2001 - 04:45

Hi DJ Sorry about posting the problem I am encountering in the wrong fourm. Guess I just felt the the Wolfenstein was related to Doom and I certainly agree that I have probably hit the end of the chain of being able to run this old 95 base software in Windows XP but thought I would ask anyway. Thanks again for your reply to my question. John

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