Re: Wing Commander IV install on WinXP?

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From: Analog Kid
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 03:31

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Heh, I also just installed  WC 4 under XP. Everything actually works great,
even got my trusty Thrustmater HOTAS system working with XP (that was
interestign!). The one issue I have run into is garbled sound..... any
ideas?


"James Boswell" <Jamesb...@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
news:aukmra$nhp$1@venus.btinternet.com...
> 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
>
>

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