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Article #35227Re: Were can i pick up a copy
From: Donan
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 18:18
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 18:18
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You can get a copy at the Gaming Lounge. It's the copy
that was on the cover disk of PC Gamer awhile ago. Free
download. I believe it's the same as the one that was also
in the Collector's Edition.
http://tinyurl.com/lp06
Donan
Check: http://www.xcomufo.com/
For FAQ's, Guides and etc. to run it in whatever
OS you are using (I have it running find in XP
Professional SP 1 with Fodder's patch).
"Tommy Persson" <tommy-p@home.se> wrote in message
news:bi5fpt$1co$1@green.tninet.se...
> Warren wrote:
>
> > "Simon Day" <happy2day@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:<FCl1b.3351$tS2.2056094@newsfep2-win.server.ntli.net>...
> >
> >>Hi all, I used to be a big player of the X-com series but when I
upgraded to
> >>windows XP I found I was unable to play any of the ones I had.
> >>Can anyone tell me how i can get hold of the original X-coms which would
> >>work on my system?
> >>Cheers all
> >
> >
> > I'm afraid I don't know where you could find them, but did you try the
> > collector's edition? It's modified to run on Windows, even XP though
> > you'll also need either fOdder's graphics patch or Xcomutil (which
> > includes said graphics patch). Runs fine on my XP computer. The
> > scrolling on the geoscape is a little fast, but it's workable.
>
> There's always ebay :)
>
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