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Posted by JamieK on 07-19-2002 09:26 AM:

FreeSpace Darkness Rising

Hi,

I was setting up vpview and on the config screen it has a choice of FS Demo, FS Full, FS: Darkness Rising, FS2 Demo, FS2 Full

What is the Darkness Rising??????

JamieK

Posted by JamieK on 07-19-2002 09:26 AM:

FreeSpace Darkness Rising

Hi,

I was setting up vpview and on the config screen it has a choice of FS Demo, FS Full, FS: Darkness Rising, FS2 Demo, FS2 Full

What is the Darkness Rising??????

JamieK

Posted by Joe Curry on 07-19-2002 11:59 AM:

I think that is what got me into this addiction in the 1st place, if im right it is the bundled version of the game that you get when you buy a pc. i bought it second hand at a market,its only got half the missions of fs though

Posted by karajorma on 07-19-2002 12:22 PM:

He's right. Interplay released tonnes of different versions of freespace and freespace 2.

In addition to those named there's also FS2 : colossus (which you can get with a wingman force 3D joystick) and an FS DVD (can`t remember if it's FS1 or FS2 though)

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Posted by karajorma on 07-19-2002 12:22 PM:

Posted by JamieK on 07-19-2002 12:28 PM:

there was a FreeSpace Campaign and it rocked, it also had speech as well, i just can't find it now.

Posted by JamieK on 07-19-2002 12:28 PM:

there was a FreeSpace Campaign and it rocked, it also had speech as well, i just can't find it now.

Posted by Joe Curry on 07-19-2002 12:39 PM:

Jamie what did you do with your old boad?

Posted by JamieK on 07-19-2002 06:27 PM:

it is in a motherboard box......why?

Posted by F S W on 07-19-2002 10:40 PM:

FS1 came on DVD with a Voodoo 3 GFX card. I think. It didn't have the box and instructions, so it just wouldn't do on its own for a collector.

EDIT: Oh, and no game is complete without a Quick Reference card!

Posted by F S W on 07-19-2002 10:40 PM:

Posted by Eugene Mowry on 07-28-2002 07:53 PM:

Hi, I think this will clear the air a little..
Darkness Rising is a campaign for freespace... Credits Robert Wild,John Lewis and Adam Roarbaugh were the creators of the expasion

Posted by Eugene Mowry on 07-28-2002 07:53 PM:

Hi, I think this will clear the air a little..
Darkness Rising is a campaign for freespace... Credits Robert Wild,John Lewis and Adam Roarbaugh were the creators of the expasion

Posted by karajorma on 07-28-2002 11:05 PM:

Nope. You`ve muddied the waters instead.
As far as I`ve been able to gather Darkness Rising is BOTH the campaign you mention and also the name for the OEM version of freespace. Evidence pointing to this is the fact that there is a seperate patch for Darkness Rising available from Interplay and that in several places it states that the patches for FS1 will only work on the the full version and not Darkness Rising (Yet if darkness rising is only a campaign then you would have the full version)

Hell. Now I`ve even confused myself Anyway Darkness Rising was definately available on a Freespace CD so unless [V] bundled the campaign with later versions of FS1 it seems likely that there are two things that can claim that name.

Anyway here's the links. Figure it out for yourselves.

[URL=http://www.avault.com/pcrl/patches_temp.asp?patch=freespace&size=.748]Patch for OEM version of Freespace[/URL]

[URL=http://www.descent-freespace.com/patches/fs1/]Descent network saying that the patches don`t work on FS : DR[/URL]

[URL=http://www.cmsupport.com/cmw/shop/181.asp]Look at that. It's a Darkness Rising CD! [/URL]

Posted by karajorma on 07-28-2002 11:05 PM:

Posted by IceFire on 07-29-2002 12:09 AM:

FS: Darkness Rising is an OEM product shipped with computers and other products as a promo tool to show off the abilities of a given product without actually giving you the whole game.

Darkness Rising has the first few Descent: FreeSpace missions. Less than a 1/3rd of the total campaign.

Darkness Rising is also the name of a fan made campaign. The two are not related.

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Posted by karajorma on 07-29-2002 09:31 AM:

Thought so.

Posted by Eugene Mowry on 08-01-2002 01:14 AM:

Kool, I always knew this was the place for imformation, also thanks Ice Fire for filling in the gaps

Posted by Eugene Mowry on 08-01-2002 01:49 AM:

Waits for water to clear... Also thanks Karajorma, I didn`t know darkness rising covered two different subjects, that`s my fault, and thanks for correcting me

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