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Re: Apoc in XP

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From: Raille
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 01:01
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"Sebastian Geist" <susi19SPAM@uni.de> wrote in message 
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> Raille wrote in news:1107340262.af2fcb6a72233bd88957a3315501ba50@teranews:
>
>> Is possible to get the cofiguration's correct to run Apocalypse in this 
>> OS?
>
> To get this working sounds very time consuming, but it isnt. First of all 
> you
> need 3 Utils. you need the Xcom Apoc No cd:
> http://www.xcomufo.com/x3cdfix.zip just extract this to your game dir. 
> then
> you need VDMSOUND:http://ntvdm.cjb.net/ And one final thing: you need a
> little dos program called mousectl.com (use a search engine to find it) 
> now
> that you have everything install vdmsound. and copy the mousectl.com to 
> the
> game dir. now then.
>
> edit the xcom3.bat file to look like this:
>
> @echo off
> mousectl.com 7,10,12,15,20,22,25,30
> fakecd .. /L:D >nul
> xcom3_cd.com
> DOSDRV
> xcomapoc.exe SKIP
> rem Uninstall process
> xcom3_cd.com
> fakecd /U >nul
> mode co80
> cls
>
> The only 2 changes are mainly the DOSDRV Line added and the mousectl.com
> line. one more last thing, go into the properties of xcomapoc.exe, then go 
> to
> compatibility and check compatible for windows 95, 256 colours, disable
> advanced text services and disable visual themes.


Well at least I had the excomapoc.exe windows emulation correct.

I'll work on this over the weekend and let you all know how it goes.

Raille
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