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Article #35916Re: Apoc in XP
From: Raille
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 01:01
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 01:01
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"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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