Re: WC 3 & 4 on a Win98 pc

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From: Karl Frank
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 08:28

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John Pancoast wrote:
>   Can't get these to run on a 98 pc.  Any tricks needed ?

Both should run without problems IF your soundcard has some sort of DOS 
emulation on a 'sane' interrupt (<8).
For WC 4 there is a Windows upgrade so that it uses DirectX. I'd 
recommend to install that one for WC4.

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From: Karl Frank <karl@karl.frank.name>
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Subject: Re: WC 3 & 4 on a Win98 pc
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