Interstate 76

Does anyone know how a person can buy a copy of Interstate 76 or a nitro pak or something like that they made a few years back that had the original 76 and some more? Or perhaps you have one you would like to sell? I read that you find them in bargain bins now but I have had no luck finding one. Thanks Brad

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 08:54:44 GMT, [email hidden] (Brad) wrote:

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> >Does anyone know how a person can buy a copy of Interstate 76 or a >nitro pak or something like that they made a few years back that had >the original 76 and some more? Or perhaps you have one you would like >to sell? I read that you find them in bargain bins now but I have had >no luck finding one. > >Thanks > >Brad

I reinstalled it a couple of months ago but you really need a retro-machine to run this gem.. in D3D I got all sort of gfx problems :-/ Andre

"Brad" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > > Does anyone know how a person can buy a copy of Interstate 76 or a > nitro pak or something like that they made a few years back that had > the original 76 and some more? Or perhaps you have one you would like > to sell? I read that you find them in bargain bins now but I have had > no luck finding one. I have a copy of it I can sell you if you really want it. Mine has been sat on the shelf for some 3 years doing nothing. Heckler -- www.house-of-heckler.fsnet.co.uk Mr Flibble is Dead Long Live Heckler Replace COM with CO.UK to reply

"Brad" <[email hidden]> wrote ... > Does anyone know how a person can buy a copy of Interstate 76 or a > nitro pak or something like that they made a few years back that had > the original 76 and some more? Or perhaps you have one you would like > to sell? I read that you find them in bargain bins now but I have had > no luck finding one. There's a pile of them on EBay, typically about $6.00. The one you're looking for is "Interstate 76 Arsenal", which included Interstate 76 Gold Edition (the "Gold" basically meant added 3D support) plus Nitro Pack for Interstate 76 - added missions & stuff. Check http://www.activision.com/games/arsenal/main.html for more details. It's worth chasing down. A lot of fun, even the game installer was well done - it had a faux radio report that helped establish the back story, followed by funky tunes. ...Klinn

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:09:58 -0000, "Heckler ����" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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> >"Brad" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:[email hidden]... >> >> Does anyone know how a person can buy a copy of Interstate 76 or a >> nitro pak or something like that they made a few years back that had >> the original 76 and some more? Or perhaps you have one you would like >> to sell? I read that you find them in bargain bins now but I have had >> no luck finding one. > >I have a copy of it I can sell you if you really want it. Mine has been sat >on the shelf for some 3 years doing nothing. > > > >Heckler >--

Do you have the arsenal or the original edition? Andre are you running XP if so did you try the compatibility program? Brad

[email hidden] (Andre Warringa) wrote in news:[email hidden]:

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> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 08:54:44 GMT, [email hidden] (Brad) wrote: > >> >>Does anyone know how a person can buy a copy of Interstate 76 or a >>nitro pak or something like that they made a few years back that had >>the original 76 and some more? Or perhaps you have one you would like >>to sell? I read that you find them in bargain bins now but I have had >>no luck finding one. >> >>Thanks >> >>Brad > > I reinstalled it a couple of months ago but you really need a > retro-machine to run this gem.. in D3D I got all sort of gfx problems >:-/ > > Andre >

I am currently running I76 NitroRiders (NitroPack in the US) on a 1.4 tbird/256DDR/geforce2 in D3D with no problems. www.i82.co.uk has a current pricelist and the sites found for all the interstate games on the main news page. www.interstate76.com The messageboards are full of helpful vigilantes who can tell you which server you'll need to play online, the original servers having been switched off. They also have 632 (six hundred and thirty two) interstate maps (resources, maps) for multiplayer games for all three games; i76, nitro and i82. The downloads section holds all the patches etc you need to get i76 running right. Nobody's got it working on XP properly though. Don't ever install the gold upgrade for i76, it renders it incompatible with standard i76 and nobody uses it. You need patch 1.081 I think for D3D on original interstate 76. Nitro works out of the box with D3D and glide. cheers John

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 21:55:21 GMT, [email hidden] (Brad) wrote: >Andre are you running XP if so did you try the compatibility program? > >Brad Running WIN98SE here. I tried the Int76 with my GF2 card but it didn't work for me. The textures had all colors except the correct ones, textures were heavily teared, and everything was flashing like mad. I messed around with it quite a bit but really couldn't get it working correctly. A big shame since I LOVED Interstate.. the music, the atmosphere.. Groovy man :) PS The people who made Interstate '82 deserve to spend the rest of their lives in a Turkish prison! What the hell were they thinking!!! Andre

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:17:29 GMT, JM <[email hidden]> wrote: >I am currently running I76 NitroRiders (NitroPack in the US) on a 1.4 >tbird/256DDR/geforce2 in D3D with no problems. Wow! Thanks a lot for the info! What was that Gold upgrade again.. I have the standard I76 and that Nitro addon pack, and I remember I did install the Gold update when I tried it with my GF2.. Anyway, time to dig up those cd's and give it another try!! Andre

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:17:29 GMT, JM <[email hidden]> wrote: Whoopy, look what we've got here.. :) http://216.102.118.146/interstate76/download/i76audio.htm Andre

Probably something along the lines of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Chris "Andre Warringa" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 21:55:21 GMT, [email hidden] (Brad) wrote: > > >Andre are you running XP if so did you try the compatibility program? > > > >Brad > > Running WIN98SE here. I tried the Int76 with my GF2 card but it didn't > work for me. The textures had all colors except the correct ones, > textures were heavily teared, and everything was flashing like mad. > I messed around with it quite a bit but really couldn't get it working > correctly. > > A big shame since I LOVED Interstate.. the music, the atmosphere.. > Groovy man :) > > PS The people who made Interstate '82 deserve to spend the rest of > their lives in a Turkish prison! What the hell were they thinking!!! > > Andre

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 00:08:29 +0100, Andre Warringa <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 21:55:21 GMT, [email hidden] (Brad) wrote: > >>Andre are you running XP if so did you try the compatibility program? >> >>Brad > >Running WIN98SE here. I tried the Int76 with my GF2 card but it didn't >work for me. The textures had all colors except the correct ones, >textures were heavily teared, and everything was flashing like mad. >I messed around with it quite a bit but really couldn't get it working >correctly. > >A big shame since I LOVED Interstate.. the music, the atmosphere.. >Groovy man :) >

I haven't reinstalled it since about two crashes ago... and by then I had only begun to try it. Maybe it's time to take another look at it... I have a GF2 too... I'll let you know how it turns out. >PS The people who made Interstate '82 deserve to spend the rest of >their lives in a Turkish prison! What the hell were they thinking!!! >Was it *that* bad? -- __________ ____---____ Marco Antonio Checa Funcke \_________D /-/---_----' Santiago de Surco, Lima, Peru _H__/_/ http://machf.tripod.com '-_____|( http://www.GeoCities.com/Hollywood/2645 remove the "no_me_j." and "sons.of." parts before replying

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:56:22 -0500, machf <[email hidden]> wrote: >>PS The people who made Interstate '82 deserve to spend the rest of >>their lives in a Turkish prison! What the hell were they thinking!!! >> >Was it *that* bad? No, it was even worse than that, but I'm a forgiving person, so I would only give them the life-long Turkish prison sentence. But they deserve much worse!! Andre

"Brad" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > > Do you have the arsenal or the original edition? I assume it's the original edition, it came bundled with an old Velocity 128 graphics card and I never really liked it.... the computer I had wasn't very good at the time, and neither was the graphics card I bought. The game comes on 2 discs though, so it may have the addons. > Andre are you running XP if so did you try the compatibility program? Not running XP, I have a copy here I got from work, but I'm very happy with the stability of W2K at present... Plus I have a Voodoo5, and there are still issues getting games to run with a V5 and XP... I've talked with people who have to swap drivers for different games, If I wanted to do that I'd get a card from nVidia. :o) Heckler

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:17:29 GMT, JM <[email hidden]> wrote: >I am currently running I76 NitroRiders (NitroPack in the US) on a 1.4 >tbird/256DDR/geforce2 in D3D with no problems. I have a small problem here - I insert the I76 cd, click on install, and after hitting a couple of 'next' buttons the game should start installing. But it doesn't I get an '_ins0432 - this program has performed an illegal operation' error and I drop back to desktop. I tried 2 different cd-rom drives but on both drives I get the same error. Any idea? Andre

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:54:48 +0100, Andre Warringa <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>>I am currently running I76 NitroRiders (NitroPack in the US) on a 1.4 >>tbird/256DDR/geforce2 in D3D with no problems. > >I have a small problem here - I insert the I76 cd, click on install, >and after hitting a couple of 'next' buttons the game should start >installing. But it doesn't I get an '_ins0432 - this program has >performed an illegal operation' error and I drop back to desktop.

Right, I fixed it - copied all the files of the cd to my hd, replaced the _inst0432 file with a newer version and installed from hd. Turned out to be a problem with an old version of installshield on the cd. Right, installation went ok, I start the game, choose play, choose D3D mode and click on play. 'This program has performed an illegal operation' and it's back to desktop. Same result when I try to run it in software or in window mode. Any.. idea? Andre

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:43:13 GMT, [email hidden] (Andre Warringa) wrote:

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>'This program has performed an illegal operation' and it's back to >desktop. >Same result when I try to run it in software or in window mode. > >Any.. idea? > >Andre

Well, after messing with some different patches I finally got it working :D I actually never played this baby online (back then I had no modem and no internet). Good to see that people STILL play this game online. Gonna be a long night.. Andre

Andre Warringa <[email hidden]> wrote in news:[email hidden]:

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> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:17:29 GMT, JM > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > Whoopy, look what we've got here.. :) > http://216.102.118.146/interstate76/download/i76audio.htm > > Andre > >

The tracks are also available, in MP3 format from Aaron Salazar(?)'s site (he created the tracks) google search for "bullmark" would find it. I got them on my winamp playlist :o) cheers John

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> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:43:13 GMT, [email hidden] > (Andre Warringa) wrote: > >>'This program has performed an illegal operation' and it's back to >>desktop. >>Same result when I try to run it in software or in window mode. >> >>Any.. idea? >> >>Andre > > Well, after messing with some different patches I finally got it > working :D > I actually never played this baby online (back then I had no modem and > no internet). Good to see that people STILL play this game online. > Gonna be a long night.. > > Andre >

I was going to say that "back in the day" when I was still chugging at 233mhz, people were reporting problems with high spec cpus (PIII850's etc) and some have to launch the game up to 40 times. servers: for i76 original, you'll need to use "mercnet.activision.com" for nitro, "gamesrv.activision.com" I don't think those are available on a fresh install, add them in manually. cheers, and PREACH THE FUNK! ;o) John (Ace English-> www.the-gunfighters.com)

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:43:13 GMT, [email hidden] (Andre Warringa) wrote: >Right, I fixed it - copied all the files of the cd to my hd, replaced >the _inst0432 file with a newer version and installed from hd. >Turned out to be a problem with an old version of installshield on the >cd. I have the same error message, but I don't see any file (either on the CD or my hard drive) with the _inst0432 filename. Where should this file be? I tried replacing the other _inst files with current versions, but no go, I get even more cryptic messages. Any help would be appreciated!

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:08:02 +0100, Andre Warringa <[email hidden]> wrote: >Well, after messing with some different patches I finally got it >working :D OK, I got it installed (there's actaully a zip file with the correct _INS files on the Activision support site). But the game crashes as soon as I try to run it, in any mode. Tried unpatched, and tried the "Gold" patch (version 1.2). Do you remember which patch worked for you? Also, are you running under Win98? I'm trying this on a Win2K computer.

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:19:46 GMT, JM <[email hidden]> wrote: >The tracks are also available, in MP3 format from Aaron Salazar(?)'s site >(he created the tracks) google search for "bullmark" would find it. I got >them on my winamp playlist :o) > >cheers >John Hey cool, I found it http://www.arionsalazar.com/projects_bullmark.html Interesting info about the band too: During the recording of the Interstate '76 Soundtrack, Bullmark created over 70 minutes of original funk music. However, Arion confesses they didn't spend the whole time just working on jams. "At Brain's insistence, we watched a lot of porn. It didn't take much arm twisting. :) Andre

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:45:39 GMT, [email hidden] (Joe62) wrote:

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>On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:43:13 GMT, [email hidden] >(Andre Warringa) wrote: > >>Right, I fixed it - copied all the files of the cd to my hd, replaced >>the _inst0432 file with a newer version and installed from hd. >>Turned out to be a problem with an old version of installshield on the >>cd. > >I have the same error message, but I don't see any file (either on the >CD or my hard drive) with the _inst0432 filename. Where should this >file be? I tried replacing the other _inst files with current >versions, but no go, I get even more cryptic messages. Any help would >be appreciated!

In the main directory of the I76 cd is a file called _ins0432.ex_ or something like that. But I was messing with different versions of the install files etc, and all of a sudden it worked, while I didn't knew exactly what made it working. And just like John says in his other post, I read on a board that you simply have to try the install again and again and again untill it works.. What other cryptic messages do you get btw? Andre

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 19:35:49 GMT, [email hidden] (Joe62) wrote:

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>On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:08:02 +0100, Andre Warringa ><[email hidden]> wrote: > >>Well, after messing with some different patches I finally got it >>working :D > >OK, I got it installed (there's actaully a zip file with the correct >_INS files on the Activision support site).

Oh?? Could you give me the url please? I thought I searched all of Activisions website but didn't find it there.. >But the game crashes as soon as I try to run it, in any mode. Tried >unpatched, and tried the "Gold" patch (version 1.2). Do you remember >which patch worked for you? Yes, the gold version didn't work for me, but I did a clean install and then installed the v1.081 patch. (http://www.interstate76.com/) First it didn't work, I got an 'illegal operation' error when I tried to start it. First thing I did was resetting my pc, and after that the splash screen did work. But when I chose play and chose d3d I got the 'illegal operation' error again. What I did then was another reset and start I76 directly with the I76d3d.exe found in the map where you installed I76 to. >Also, are you running under Win98? I'm trying this on a Win2K >computer. W98, I don't know if it works under Win2K.. it doesn't work on XP I read.. Andre

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:44:32 +0100, Andre Warringa <[email hidden]> wrote: >Oh?? Could you give me the url please? I thought I searched all of >Activisions website but didn't find it there.. It's not in downloads, you have to go into the "Get Answers" database, select I76, and search for "install". The first item is this: https://activision.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/activision.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=1Vltr5ag&p_lva=&p_faqid=3672&p_created=999639595&p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTEwJnBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9aW5zdGFsbCZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPTMmcF9wcm9kX2x2bDE9MSZwX3Byb2RfbHZsMj0xNTYmcF9zb3J0X2J5PWRmbHQmcF9wYWdlPTE*&p_li= >W98, I don't know if it works under Win2K.. it doesn't work on XP I >read.. I think you're right - I got it working (with the Gold patch yet!) under Win98. Seems to be working flawlessly, thanks for the help! If I hadn't seen your posts I never would have tried to get it working again. Unlike many old games that I get nostalgic about, this one has really aged well. Characters a low-poly, but the presentation and camera work is better than 90% of today's games. And the gameplay is as fun as I remember!

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:51:12 GMT, [email hidden] (Joe62) wrote: >I think you're right - I got it working (with the Gold patch yet!) >under Win98. Seems to be working flawlessly, thanks for the help! If I >hadn't seen your posts I never would have tried to get it working >again. Thank John, without his posts I never would have tried to get it working again :) >Unlike many old games that I get nostalgic about, this one has really >aged well. Characters a low-poly, but the presentation and camera work >is better than 90% of today's games. And the gameplay is as fun as I >remember! Absolutely. Even back then the graphics (in the cut-scenes) were low-poly, but it was done on purpose to create this special style. I hated the technically much more advanced movies of I82.. they did not have the atmosphere I76 had. Yesterday I did something I never did before - I finished I82. I hated it so much I uninstalled it in disgust after a couple of missions, but in a way I was curious how the game would end. I should never have done that, it was even worse as I expected :-/ Andre

[email hidden] (Andre Warringa) wrote in news:[email hidden]:

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> Yesterday I did something I never did before - I finished I82. I hated > it so much I uninstalled it in disgust after a couple of missions, but > in a way I was curious how the game would end. I should never have > done that, it was even worse as I expected :-/ > > Andre >

The single player game is nowhere near as good as i76's, I'll grant you. I actually enjoy i82 mutliplayer. I even ran a racing series for it. The biggest attraction for me is the *really easy* map editor. It's you're own little sandbox, even if the game itself is a bit dodgy. www.the-gunfighters.com/vroom/ I like 'em all. Been playing i76 since 98, i82 since 99. Still play both on a regular basis :o) cheers John

>Yesterday I did something I never did before - I finished I82. I hated >it so much I uninstalled it in disgust after a couple of missions, but >in a way I was curious how the game would end. I should never have >done that, it was even worse as I expected :-/ No one can ruin a sequel the way Activision can!