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[The Fifth Horseman]

1999

[Aubor]

Not sure if it is a mistake or perhaps I misunderstood something but the page where you have the game description of UFO has a link to buy it but at the bottom is a link to download the dos version....without paying.


Is it just the windows version that is protected and not the Dos or was this simply a mistake?


Just thought I would say something as I would hate for this place to get into trouble.

[Christian]

Hello, trying to get this game up and running once again but it's been almost a year so I can't really recall... I have gotten a Windows version (the Collector's Edition one) but seem to run into to the usual problems that I seemed to run into last time.

The scrambled graphics is easily solved but the game runs to fast, I remember using a patch by some guy named 'Mok', but the thread that xcomufo.com linked to is broken so does anyone have it?

Any other solutions? Neither the dos version or the Windows version seems to run efficiently in dosbox (crashes all the time). Any help of any slowing down programs (Turbo was not good, I had to slow it down to 5% to get any effect of the game but then the rest of the computer couldn't manage).

Any help is highly appreciated!

[The Fifth Horseman]

Try using a CPU Killer type utility.

Ok Ive got a problem running the DOS version. I use dosbox, but I cant find the command to get the game to load. It should be something like ufo.exe, but I cant find any file thatll work. Please help. I love this game and have such a hankering to play it, and its killing me.

And yeah I have read the last 30 pages of posts looking for others that had this problem. Turns out 2 others had it too. They posted the same problem, but nobody answered them. Instead they posted later saying they got it running on their own.

[Cockroach]

In my dos version, you have to run a setup program first, stating the install directory. Then run a sound setup the same way. After that, switch to the install directory and run xcom.bat.

That's how 1.2 on CD works anyways

Well I've given up on trying to get the dos version to work. So now I have the windows version. Its Xcom Gold edition I think. Anyway I cant seem to get this to work well either. The game loads and the sound works, and I believe the controlls do too. The graphics are all scrambled when I play. I dont know what to do.

Does this game not work on XP? Or is there some trick to doing so that anyone would care to share?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(The Stine @ Sep 4 2006, 08:48 PM) [snapback]252774[/snapback]</div>

Well I've given up on trying to get the dos version to work. So now I have the windows version. Its Xcom Gold edition I think. Anyway I cant seem to get this to work well either. The game loads and the sound works, and I believe the controlls do too. The graphics are all scrambled when I play. I dont know what to do.

Does this game not work on XP? Or is there some trick to doing so that anyone would care to share?
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Try running the executable in compatability mode. Right-click the game executable and head for the properties - go to the compatability tab, click the box for run this game in compatability mode for... and select win 95, if it isn't already selected. Then click run in 256 colours and click OK. Try running it then.

I haven't tried this, since I don't have the game (having owned it on both amiga and PC back in the day, tis very annoying not to be able to relive the glory days.), but it works for a lot of games around that age.

If that doesn't work, try running the executable through DOSBox - it may be a windows game but I suspect it relies on having DOS access.

[melthas]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Elwood @ Sep 5 2006, 11:30 AM) [snapback]252858[/snapback]</div>

Try running the executable in compatability mode. Right-click the game executable and head for the properties - go to the compatability tab, click the box for run this game in compatability mode for... and select win 95, if it isn't already selected. Then click run in 256 colours and click OK. Try running it then.

I haven't tried this, since I don't have the game (having owned it on both amiga and PC back in the day, tis very annoying not to be able to relive the glory days.), but it works for a lot of games around that age.

If that doesn't work, try running the executable through DOSBox - it may be a windows game but I suspect it relies on having DOS access.
[/b]

I was well able to play it with my XP laptop so no compatibility mode should be necessary in fact. Anyway it could be useful to try the first advice but the latter won't work. Game exe file is a windows one. It tells that it can only be run under windows when you try to run it in dos or dosbox (I tried it before).

[Horoma]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(The Stine @ Sep 4 2006, 10:48 PM) [snapback]252774[/snapback]</div>

Well I've given up on trying to get the dos version to work. So now I have the windows version. Its Xcom Gold edition I think. Anyway I cant seem to get this to work well either. The game loads and the sound works, and I believe the controlls do too. The graphics are all scrambled when I play. I dont know what to do.

Does this game not work on XP? Or is there some trick to doing so that anyone would care to share?
[/b]

Scrambled graphics are a known bug with the collector's edition of both UFO and TFTD. There is a patch to correct this, just click here. I personally use Xcomutil, which is a nice way to make the game more challenging again. It also features a loader to correct the graphics bug. k: