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I can see why people would be confused with the original posted zip file with 4 zip files inside. The zip files do appear to be the 4 original disks that comprised the speech pack; there's nothing cracked about them. They are simply compressed files of each of the 4 floppy disks with text files added by the cracker groups who originally posted them and a text identifier of what they contain.
As mentioned, each zip file contains pkback#00x (depending on which disk, 1-4), and speech.zip. The first zip file also contains install.exe (to identify your PC's sound setup and unzip the speech file) and pkunzip.exe.
There's nothing "unsafe" about the zip files. The problem is, the speech pack in this form is hard to install only because it was created for use with floppy disks. You can't simply unzip everything to a folder and unzip the speech file because there are 4 files named speech.zip, and you need all of them.
This installation was created back when floppy disks were the removable media of choice. So how do you get a 5.6 MB speech.dat file on 1.44 MB floppy disks? You use a program like pkzip and span the zip file over multiple floppy disks.
So with the 4 zip files provided, how do we unzip the speech.dat file? Do what people did 30 years ago - unzip each zip file to a floppy disk. Then stick disk 1 in your floppy drive, go to a command prompt, and use the provided pkunzip.exe to unzip speech.dat to another location. Pkunzip prompts you to insert each disk until the process is complete. At the end, we have a complete speech.dat file.
The complete speech.dat file is now available for download below. Enjoy!
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clb196617 Jun. 2024
This "installation" is not the original install media, but rather a ripped-and-cracked version, complete with the "weird" encryption schemes and a bunch of braggy-boasty text documents about who "proudly released" it and on what bulletin board services.
I have yet to successfully extract actual useful media from it. It seems that each zip file included is supposed to be the "results" of the "backup" feature of an early version of PKZip. Interestingly, I have the last released version of PKZip, installed, and it can't seem to deal with the files as provided.
The first "disk" contains a version of PKUNZIP, and an "install" file (the "install" seems merely to call PKUNZIP). It also contains a "speech.zip" and a "PKBACK#.001" file. Everything else is garbage. Later disks also have a "speech.zip" file and a PKBACK#.00x file. Those two files... the PKBACK and the zip file... are the only REAL files on each "disk" except for the two EXE files on the first "disk."
Running "install" seems to run the "official" installer, from inside the zips. So it's possible that the files I point out, above, are from the original vendor setup... but I find that unlikely.
I've been looking for images of the original disks, without all the "hacker" stuff shoved in there, but cannot find them.
Suffice it to say, you can safely delete all the "we're kewl hackers" nonsense from above, and only keep the "real" files I point out.
Beyond that, though, I'm not confident of the SAFETY of the files "zipped" or how they install. Without original vendor disk images to compare this to, I'd be VERY cautious about using these files.
What I CAN say is that the "installer" requires a full version of Pacific Strike to already be installed, needs to be able to confirm that it's there and correct, and then will alter that installation directory. I cannot simply extract the installation files... at least I haven't been successful at that yet.
If I ever am, and can then check the files themselves... I'll upload that material here. But PKUNZIP as provided here seems to be incompatible with the more modern(ish) version of PKZip I have, which can't work with the included files.
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confused09 Oct. 2014
maybe try d-fend reloaded its got installation support.ill get back to you when i try it
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Sage03 Sep. 2014
How do you install this speech pack using DOSbox???
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I can see why people would be confused with the original posted zip file with 4 zip files inside. The zip files do appear to be the 4 original disks that comprised the speech pack; there's nothing cracked about them. They are simply compressed files of each of the 4 floppy disks with text files added by the cracker groups who originally posted them and a text identifier of what they contain.
As mentioned, each zip file contains pkback#00x (depending on which disk, 1-4), and speech.zip. The first zip file also contains install.exe (to identify your PC's sound setup and unzip the speech file) and pkunzip.exe.
There's nothing "unsafe" about the zip files. The problem is, the speech pack in this form is hard to install only because it was created for use with floppy disks. You can't simply unzip everything to a folder and unzip the speech file because there are 4 files named speech.zip, and you need all of them.
This installation was created back when floppy disks were the removable media of choice. So how do you get a 5.6 MB speech.dat file on 1.44 MB floppy disks? You use a program like pkzip and span the zip file over multiple floppy disks.
So with the 4 zip files provided, how do we unzip the speech.dat file? Do what people did 30 years ago - unzip each zip file to a floppy disk. Then stick disk 1 in your floppy drive, go to a command prompt, and use the provided pkunzip.exe to unzip speech.dat to another location. Pkunzip prompts you to insert each disk until the process is complete. At the end, we have a complete speech.dat file.
The complete speech.dat file is now available for download below. Enjoy!
This "installation" is not the original install media, but rather a ripped-and-cracked version, complete with the "weird" encryption schemes and a bunch of braggy-boasty text documents about who "proudly released" it and on what bulletin board services.
I have yet to successfully extract actual useful media from it. It seems that each zip file included is supposed to be the "results" of the "backup" feature of an early version of PKZip. Interestingly, I have the last released version of PKZip, installed, and it can't seem to deal with the files as provided.
The first "disk" contains a version of PKUNZIP, and an "install" file (the "install" seems merely to call PKUNZIP). It also contains a "speech.zip" and a "PKBACK#.001" file. Everything else is garbage. Later disks also have a "speech.zip" file and a PKBACK#.00x file. Those two files... the PKBACK and the zip file... are the only REAL files on each "disk" except for the two EXE files on the first "disk."
Running "install" seems to run the "official" installer, from inside the zips. So it's possible that the files I point out, above, are from the original vendor setup... but I find that unlikely.
I've been looking for images of the original disks, without all the "hacker" stuff shoved in there, but cannot find them.
Suffice it to say, you can safely delete all the "we're kewl hackers" nonsense from above, and only keep the "real" files I point out.
Beyond that, though, I'm not confident of the SAFETY of the files "zipped" or how they install. Without original vendor disk images to compare this to, I'd be VERY cautious about using these files.
What I CAN say is that the "installer" requires a full version of Pacific Strike to already be installed, needs to be able to confirm that it's there and correct, and then will alter that installation directory. I cannot simply extract the installation files... at least I haven't been successful at that yet.
If I ever am, and can then check the files themselves... I'll upload that material here. But PKUNZIP as provided here seems to be incompatible with the more modern(ish) version of PKZip I have, which can't work with the included files.
maybe try d-fend reloaded its got installation support.ill get back to you when i try it
How do you install this speech pack using DOSbox???
No comment nor review for this game at the moment.