🚀 go-pugleaf

____     On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:26:55 -0400
\__/___  Penelope Baker ran through the
 LI-\o-' streets of alt.games.x-com
     |   waving an axe and screaming:
    / \
>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'.  :)

Why not just install and boot to DOS normally?
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