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Thanks, I'll try those sites.

On my Dell, the video runs (off the CD) but after the first bot-description 
segment, the CD doesn't hand off to the game properly - the screen goes 
black and I eventually have to use TaskManager to kill the app.  I don't 
have this problem on the other older machine.  Anyone have a suggestion on 
how to tweak this?  I have the rest of the game - without videos - installed 
on the HD, and didn't have any (obvious) problems with the install...

~AA

"rms" <rsquiresREMOVE@REMOVEflash.net> wrote in message 
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>> A) are there any copies of the original Descent (D1?) still lying around?
>
>    There are many copies of D1+D2 on ebay for a few dollars.  You still 
> need the retail disks since they have the artwork and level files.  The 
> actual .exe has been rewritten by the fan base to run on today's machines. 
> There are more than one of these re-compilation projects.
>
>> B) has anyone tried to run D1 on an XP machine?  D2 runs fine on my HP 
>> cheapie, but has some issues on my Dell dual-core machine.
>
>    http://www.descent2.de/
>    http://www.dxx-rebirth.de/main.php
>
> Both should play D1 as well as D2, you can try them both.  Dual-core 
> issues are usually solved by disabling the 2nd core with a utility, or 
> setting the 'cpu affinity' with task manager.
>
> rms
>