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"James Boswell" <Jamesb...@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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> Okay, so apparently the WC4Win95 patch will run under XP, but first I have
> to _install_ WC4... and the installer hangs...
>
> booting from a dos bootdisk isn't an option (NTFS formatted harddisk)
> I'd like to avoid setting up Win98 on a spare disk (I have a 6GB disk
> sitting around) JUST so I can install WC4 and then copy the directory to
the
> XP disk over the network (using another machine as a waypoint whilst I
swap
> disks obviously.)
>
>
> Suggestions anyone?, is there a way to manually install WC4?
>
> TIA
>
> -JB

The boxed native Win95 version of WC4 includes a Windows based installer.
I've tried to package up the installer, but I expect it'll need a lot of
fiddling to make work.. I haven't tested it fully myself. You'll probably
need to extract the zip to a directory somewhere and then copy the contents
of the first WC4 CD to that directory before running the setup exe. You
might also need to edit a file once installed to change the CD path and then
install the W95 game patch. This is all guesswork since I haven't tried
installing by this method myself, but if you are willing to play about to
get it working, I've put the package up at
http://www.wcnews.com/hades/wc4w95setup.zip

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Barrie Almond
bal...@wcnews.com