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Mark Price 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?
I'm not quite sure if I understand this right; if you can install it, 
just grab D2x (http://www.icculus.org/d2x/) and use that. Works like a 
charm.
If it doesn't install, which version of D2 do you have? I believe 
there's a lot of versions - especially budget variants or the one from 
the "Descent Venture Pack" - that have a directory that contains all 
files you'll need for D2. Check if you have one of those versions. If 
you do, just copy them over and use D2x then. ;)
Otherwise, see if you can get it to install with DOSbox 
(http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/).


HTH,

-- 
Florian "The Outrider" Piesche (outrider@mag-murphy.net - http://www.mag-murphy.net)
"Windows ME ist der gelungene Versuch, die Schwńchen von WinNT
(mangelnde Kompatibilitńt mit Win9x- und DOS-Programmen) und
Win9x (mangelnde Stabilitńt) zu kombinieren."