Since you started a new topic here on the troubleshooting forum I'm gonna ignore the email you sent to me LafayetteGamer. Creating a topic here was a good move since you can be sure I will eventually read it and others can help out too and most of the time faster.
Like Anubis said, use DOSBox in Windows XP. Since it's an old game I don't think you should have problem running it even if you laptop is not too powerfull.
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