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NSV...@prodigy.com (Daniel Goswick) wrote:

>I've been wondering if there was a way to load C&C all on your hard drive 
>to play over networks without individual CD-ROMs.  Westwood denies that 
>you can but I have come accross a way.  It involves no emulator programs 
>or anything, I think Westwood actually put this in for their own use.  
>Here's how:

>1. Create a directory on your harddrive to hold the CD-ROM info (ex. 
>c:\c&c-cd)

>2. Copy the entire CD-ROM to that directory EXCEPT for the two large 
>files
> in the root directory (movies.mix and scores.mix).  File manager works 
>good for this.

>3. Now from that copied directory, go to the INSTALL directory there (ex. 
>c:\c&c-cd\install)  and run the install program with the /nocd option (ie.
> INSTALL /NOCD)

>4. This will install the game same as from CD-ROM.

>5. To run the game, enter "C&C -cdXXXX" where XXXX is where you copied 
>the CD-ROM to (ex. c&c -cdc:\c&c-cd)

>This works both for solitare and multiplayer modes.  You DO lose the 
>movies and music, but it only takes 31M on your drive and has finally 
>allowed me to run it on my network without buying more CD-ROMs.

>Hope this works for you, and enjoy!

>Dan Goswick
>NSV...@prodigy.com

Are you sure this works? I don't have a sound card(doh!) and whenever
I select start new game, the computer crashes on me and I DID do
everything right. Do you need to copy the data of both CD's because I
only copied the data from the GDI CD.

Tomasz Bilski.
tops...@ois.com.au