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XCOM - TFTD CD problems

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From: Detonate
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 00:00
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After having problems with my original, floppies version of this, I
purchased the CD version of the game.  I'm having some real problems with
getting this to work, especially when it comes to sound issues.

I have found there is a missing file, from what I can gather, called
Sound.exe[?] - a DOS file, which I have found in my other TFTD games.  I
have tried to copy this file to the new CD version of TFTD on my system - my
HD is partitioned, so I now have three copies of TFTD sitting around!
However, this still does not work.  I can access the setup, to sort out the
sound & music details, but after trying to configure, the following message
keeps popping up at the DOS prompt:

Error writing sound config file;
Null pointer assignment

I have no idea what the problem is, as I have a SB AWE64, which I imagine
should be okay, since it works with my floppy version of the game.  I don't
believe there is any problems with my system - but any suggestions would be
really appreciated!

Sys Spec:

P166 MMX
3.5g HD
64Megs SDRAM
24xCDROM
AWE64 SB
Matrox 4m GFX card [Millennium, IIRC]
Win98
Intellipoint mouse

Any help really, really appreciated!

Detonate
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From: "Detonate" <deto...@detonate.demon.co.uk>
Subject: XCOM - TFTD CD problems
Date: 1998/09/12
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