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Re: Tiberian dawn - alternate NOD ending?

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From: Antti Hämäläinen
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:21
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 18:14:41 -0400, "Mr. Brian Allen" <blah@blah.com>
wrote:

>> As the hardware and software have left C&C high and dry, I doubt I'll be
>> revisiting it unless it is reissued updated in the same way Elite was.
>
>The Gold version runs great under XP.  You just have to spend a few minutes
>toying with compatability.  It's one of the easier older games to get
>working.  Try getting one of the old Lucasarts DOS games to work on XP.
>Torture!  Anyways, I just can't seem to get Covert Operations to install.
>It wants to install from a DOS box for some unknown reason.  Ah well.

How about just copying some of the files (such as *.mix) on the Covert
Ops disk to your C&C folder? That's what the install program does
anyway, isn't it?
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