🚀 go-pugleaf

I have to say that for anyone unfamiliar with the good ol' dos prompt, that
has got to be the most difficult way to get an xcom game working, especially
since we have no idea which game you are talking about....


-Micah
micahdg@xcomufo.com
www.xcomufo.com



"Penelope Baker" <penelope_baker@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:vmcbkqdl7chh3d@corp.supernews.com...
> I tried all the hacks, cracks, cheats, CD protections, sound VM drivers,
> etc.  NOTHING worked.
>
> SOOOOOO...I just copied the c:\windows\command directory from a Win98 box
on
> the network to my hard drive as C:\DOS, copied over the command.com,
> himem.sys, emm386.exe and smartdrv.exe files from c:\windows\system to the
> same directory, and created a windows 98 startup disk.  Then I copied the
> DOS drivers (or as in the case of my SB Live! which has no 'real' DOS
> drivers, I faked it using the windows drivers and the .ini file) to the
> C:\DOS\drivers\ directory.  I also made a C:\dos\drivers\mouse and
> c:\dos\drivers\cd-rom directory.  Then I nuked the autoexec.bat and config
> sys that came with the startup disk and made my own calling all the stuff
I
> needed off C.  Now, whenever I want to play X-COM, I enjoy the full game,
no
> glitches, no funky sound, no mouse BS, by just popping in my startup disk
> and rebooting :P
>
> Yeah, I know, it's not REALLY under XP, but it turned out to be the best
> solution for me and was the least 'quirky'.  :)
>
> Peace,
> Pen
>
>