Re: Descent 2 running in Windows 2000 or XP? Can't install

Article View: alt.games.descent

Article #89795

#89795

From: karx11erx
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:22

13 lines
1797 bytes

On 3 Jun., 01:40, "Apropos" <howapropos.remove4.NOS...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> As you know, D2 won't install in anything but Windows 95.
>
> There is news of patches and other things... but I can't find anywhere with
> active links.  They all are DEAD.  Including the Interplay website.
>
> Anyone know how to do this, and where the patches might actually be?
>
> Also, can I ever install the Windows version or must one run the DOS version
> to run in Windows 2000/XP?

You can try D2X-XL (http://www.descent2.de) or D2X-Rebirth.

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1181042575.245653.281400@h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>

Path:

mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail

References: <dmm8i.14690$JQ3.11524@bignews5.bellsouth.net>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
From: karx11erx <karx11erx@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.games.descent
Subject: Re: Descent 2 running in Windows 2000 or XP? Can't install
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 04:22:55 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Lines: 14
Message-ID: <1181042575.245653.281400@h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
References: <dmm8i.14690$JQ3.11524@bignews5.bellsouth.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.25.187.120
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1181042575 25235 127.0.0.1 (5 Jun 2007 11:22:55 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 11:22:55 +0000 (UTC)
In-Reply-To: <dmm8i.14690$JQ3.11524@bignews5.bellsouth.net>
User-Agent: G2/1.0
X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)
X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 ska-lx-w05.ptv.ptv.de:8080 (squid/2.6.STABLE5)
Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
Injection-Info: h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=194.25.187.120; posting-account=RTj8oA0AAAB53ffbhgjtInkdH-aCwe_D
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Reply to Parent Message