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Article #342Re: XCOM - TFTD CD problems
From: chule... Craig Hulett
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 00:00
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In article <35fca69f...@news.i-way.co.uk>, pet...@DELETEMEdoska.ANDMEi-way.co.uk wrote: >On Sat, 12 Sep 1998 23:32:31 +0100, "Detonate" ><deto...@detonate.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >>Thanks for the suggestion, which I have experimented with. Seems weird >>though, I've copied the whole CD, and tried running the setup from that, but >>it still insists on giving the same message, amongst other things. >> >>Ah well, I'll keep trying > >Have you changed the file attributes of all the files you copied from >CD to HD away from read-only? It sounds like it's trying to update a >configuration file which has been marked as read-only. > > Had problems with this game, too. Stumbled across a directory on the CD called 'harddisk' or something to that effect, and it turns out the 'install' you can run from there installs the entire game to your drive. I *think* you may loose some of the cut-scene or intro movies, but you won't need the cdrom any more to play. Give that a shot... Craig
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From: chule...@aol.com (Craig Hulett) Subject: Re: XCOM - TFTD CD problems Date: 1998/09/13 Message-ID: <35fbd784.0@news.bewellnet.com> X-Deja-AN: 390696988 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.141.65.206 References: <905602312.24753.0.nnrp-10.c2deb095@news.demon.co.uk> <35fa6894.5620406@news.mindspring.com> <905639553.21048.0.nnrp-11.c2deb095@news.demon.co.uk> <35fca69f.1674012@news.i-way.co.uk> Newsgroups: alt.games.x-com,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit