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Article #35917Re: Apoc in XP
From: Micah
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:30
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 news:1107392464.660bfb823836b4b1a9cb1ba361747608@teranews... > > "Sebastian Geist" <susi19SPAM@uni.de> wrote in message > news:Xns95F1A79F760B9Sphinx@130.133.1.4... >> 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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