Re: Question about Duke Nukem in general.

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From: Repository Bloke
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 01:18

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>   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.

All you need is a duke3d.grp. The port automatically detects which version
of the game you have. All the required CON files are inside this group file,
so there's no fiddly bits to mess around with.

Cheers,
- Kim
http://www.bur.st/~duke3d

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