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Penelope Baker wrote:
> I tried all the hacks, cracks, cheats, CD protections, sound VM drivers,
> etc.  NOTHING worked.
> 
 >
(snip-er-rooni)
> 
> 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
> 
> 

Just a heads-up. This method absolutely will not work if the drive you 
are using has been formatted as an NTFS filesytem (as many pre-installed 
and wipe-and-startover installs are.)

An alternative, if you are using an NTFS filesystem, is to burn all the 
above files to a CD-R, and make it bootable. You can also put copies of 
X-COM on the CD-R, and if you're feeling adventurous, write up a boot 
menu that you can use to go straight into one of the games. Using this 
method, you can play X-COM on anyones computer (well, x86 machines, at 
least, and unless they had the same sound card, you'd be without sound) 
, anywhere, anytime, without having to install anything.

Agreed with what Micah said though. Applying this procedure to an 
individual computer would be tedious at best, fraught with much trial 
and error at worst, and downright impossible if you dont have a copy of 
Win95/98 or DOS. But it would work, and hey, learning DOS would give a 
lot you lazy-ass newbies a taste of what it was like to try and get 
these games running on the systems of 10 years ago. :D