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Re: Question about Duke Nukem in general.

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From: Richard
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 18:09
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There should be some readme or file instructions that come with the 3D port
downloads.

One of the MAIN things they will tell you is that you need the .GRP file
from the original game.  THEN run the exe file and the con files will be
extracted!!

Works great on my XP machine.

Richard.

"Sionnach" <rhyfelwr@msn.com> wrote in message
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>
> "NutWrench" wrote:
>
>  a very nice Windows
> > version of Duke3D and Build can be downloaded for free from JonoF's
> website.
> > (The original DOS version of Duke 3D won't run under Windows XP)
> > http://jonof.edgenetwork.org/buildport/duke3d/
>
>
>   Ok... maybe I'm being stupid, or missing something obvious, but:
>  I downloaded this, and can't quite figure out how to get it to work.
> Clicking on "setup" OR "Duke.exe" does nothing but give a message that
> game.con is missing.
>    I'm guessing that what I actually need is to have the original game
> loaded, and then the port gets it to run in XP; but how do I manage that
if
> I haven't got the game already installed?
>   I seem to recall that I wasn't able to get Duke to *install* after
> upgrading to XP.
>
>
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Subject: Re: Question about Duke Nukem in general.
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