Re: D2 on Windows 2000

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From: Mike Patterson
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 17:55

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On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 04:41:31 -0400, "Mark Price"
<celticus@bellsouth.net> wrote:

>I need some expertise. I have recently gotten myself a new motherboard and
>hard drive. I installed windows 2000 as the operating system and now cannot
>get D2 to even load. I get as far as install and it tells me that D2 is
>meant to run on Windows 95. I have downloaded the compatibility patch but I
>can't get far enough to use it. I had D2 on another 2000 box but can't get
>it here. What am I doing wrong?
>Mark
>

I had the same issue, I just copied the entire D2 directory from my
old machine to my new one via network connection. Worked for me.

Every new machine I've seen in the last few years has LAN ports, so
you could set it up with a crossover cable even if you don't normally
use a LAN.

Or, if you still have the old hard drive, load it as a IDE slave drive
and run it from there.

HTH
Mike

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From: Mike Patterson <mikespost@spamtrapthe-patterson-family.com>
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Subject: Re: D2 on Windows 2000
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:55:08 -0400
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