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Re: Apoc in XP

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From: Micah
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:30
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If you give up on that route, you might want to try this one:
http://www.xcomufo.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=841



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



"Raille" <raille@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> "Sebastian Geist" <susi19SPAM@uni.de> wrote in message
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>> Raille wrote in 
>> news:1107340262.af2fcb6a72233bd88957a3315501ba50@teranews:
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>>> 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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From: "Micah" <micahdg@xcomufo.com>
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Subject: Re: Apoc in XP
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:30:45 -0600
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