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"Rodney Hill" <tomahalk@sympatico.ca> writes:

> I have the 1994 Uk version of xcom with the manual. I did have the oem patch
> from microprose on a cd however the cd in no longer readable. The drive I
> kept it on has been reformatted to clean up a problem with worms.

The Microprose FTP server is still around, curiously enough. 

If you want to play the original, with just the worst map bugs fixed,
get the ufofix.zip. There are interesting "features", such as
unlimited stats, which wrap at 128 and you can get thousands of units
of Elerium, if you succeed in a base defense. GUS support works. Some
other things too, laser pistols easily penetrate even a flying suit
and Sectopods are vulnerable to incendiary, not lasers.

ftp://ftp.microprose.com/pub/mps-online/new-versions/ufofix.zip

The 1.2 fixes all the abovementioned problems, but I always felt it
lessens the game a little. There was a 1.3 patch too, but I never
found out what the difference was between 1.2 and 1.3. Only one file
was changed as I recall.

ftp://ftp.microprose.com/pub/mps-online/new-versions/ufov12.zip
http://www.tuug.utu.fi/~juleppar/pub/games/ufov13.zip

There is also the 1.4 patch, but I don't see the point. It includes a
new sound system, which is fine, but it also replaces some sound
effects and the replacements suck.