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[csufr]

Originally Posted by velik_m

Where have you guys been? Colonization was ported to windows in 1995.

http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.p...on+for+Windows

Hello...I d/l the complete file and unzip all files but for some reason the game doesn't work. Any suggestions?

[Mighty Midget]

Originally Posted by csufr

Hello...I d/l the complete file and unzip all files but for some reason the game doesn't work. Any suggestions?

"Doesn't work"? Details, please. Error messages?

Also: Did you try to d/l the game again? (The first d/l could be corrupt)

[The Fifth Horseman]

Satan has posessed your computer. You have to delete all your porn and then ask a priest to perform an exorcism.

... No, not really. But how the hell am I (or anyone else) supposed to figure out what's going wrong when your description does not tell us anything whatsoever? We're not psychic detectives here.

Please tell us:
1. Which version of Windows you're using
2. How (in exact steps) did you attempt to run the game.
3. What exactly happened when you did what you did. Any error messages MUST be posted verbatim - ie precisely as they appear on your PC.

[csufr]

I am on a XP plateform. I unziped all 7 zipped files and placed all files in a folder and ran the colonization .exe file. the file said unable to locate wing.dll file and another warning of can't locate colonization.exe file.

That's about it.

[The Fifth Horseman]

OK, that explains a few things. The WinG API was a very old thing... sort of a precursor to DirectX, actually. Microsoft dropped official support for it since Windows 98SE, but you can install it separately.

Go here: http://community.the-underdogs.info/pub/tools/other/
Download "wing-setup". Unpack it, run MSSetup.exe... and that's it. You're ready to run any games that use WinG on your XP machine no problem.

[zorrobomber]

Actually, Red Alert is free to copy as RA3 is coming, so we can only hope, SM follows this example.