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Music option in Command menu

Fri, 10 November 2017 12:15

AngeLwitcH

Crewman 2nd Class

Messages: 19
Registered: November 2017
Location: UK

Does anyone know how to get music playing using the Music option on the Command menu? Where should the music files be put?

Thanks Very Happy

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Re: Music option in Command menu

Mon, 13 November 2017 16:15

Ron

Commander
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Registered: October 2002
Location: Collegedale, TN

Are you speaking of music in Stars!? If so, then that must be the v2.7 version of Stars!, which does not have the latest patch version available to it. I believe it could play audio CD tracks, as well as sounds in battles.

To be compatible with the Stars! turn server here on Stars! AutoHost, you have to use Stars! v2.6jrc4 patch version (http://starsautohost.org/files/stars26jrc4.zip). Unfortunately, Stars! v2.6 does not have music or sound as an option.

Ron Miller
Stars! AutoHost

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Re: Music option in Command menu

Wed, 15 November 2017 16:55

AngeLwitcH

Crewman 2nd Class

Messages: 19
Registered: November 2017
Location: UK

OK thanks Ron,

I have downloaded the version you linked and hopefully I'll be able to join a game. The version I have is indeed 2.7i boxed retail version

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Re: Music option in Command menu

Mon, 20 November 2017 09:37

Ron

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FYI, v2.6 and v2.7 were completely play compatible with each other until the Jrc4 patch was released for v2.6.

There is a Jrc3 patch for v2.7, but the Jrc4 patch fixed some annoying bugs and is the latest one.

Ron Miller
Stars! AutoHost

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Re: Music option in Command menu

Mon, 20 November 2017 16:38

AngeLwitcH

Crewman 2nd Class

Messages: 19
Registered: November 2017
Location: UK

Thanks Ron, I have it now

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Re: Music option in Command menu

Thu, 27 August 2020 08:36

ekolis

Petty Officer 2nd Class

Stars! Nova developer

Messages: 51
Registered: May 2006
Location: Cincinnati, OH, USA

I just hum the battle music from Space Empires IV or Master of Orion 2 whenever there is a battle Very Happy

Mr. Flibble says...
Game over, boys!

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Re: Music option in Command menu

Wed, 02 September 2020 15:19

XAPBob

Lt. Commander

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Registered: August 2012

In space no-one can hear you hum, or scream as you are blasted to oblivion.

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Re: Music option in Command menu

Thu, 03 September 2020 00:58

magic9mushroom

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Registered: May 2008

XAPBob wrote on Thu, 03 September 2020 05:19

In space no-one can hear you hum, or scream as you are blasted to oblivion.

Unless you're humming at a very low pitch.

(The criterion is that for the wave model of sound to be reasonably accurate, the wavelength of the sound must significantly exceed the mean free path - the distance a molecule or atom travels between collisions. The interplanetary medium has a very large mean free path, larger than the diameter of the Earth, so only the deepest sounds can exist.)

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