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I have reached another level of nerdom. After getting an itch to play the original X-Com: UFO Defense, i got my brother to send it to me through AIM. I would have bought the damn game but everywhere i looked it was no less than $30.00...not sure how that works, but whatever.
Couldn't get it to install on my computer cause i don't have any floppy disks...or a floppy drive for that matter.
Anyways, long story short...i got it running after installing DosBox(which is an old dos emulator because XP doesn't support XCom) and some help from my little brother sending me the files after install.
But the help files are halarious...i've forgotten what it was like back in '94 when this game came out.
ReadMe File:
MEMORY
Due to the game's size and complexity you may experience difficulties
while playing on a machine with only 2 MB of RAM.
1. If your game fails to load, remove EMM386 from your CONFIG.SYS.
UFO runs in protected mode so it does not require an expanded memory
driver.
2. If you do not get sound effects for certain events from your
Gravis or Soundblaster card, this is due to a lack of available RAM.
This could be caused by superfluous TSR (terminate and stay resident)
programs in your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. Remove these TSR
programs and all sound will play correctly.
Couldn't get it to install on my computer cause i don't have any floppy disks...or a floppy drive for that matter.
Anyways, long story short...i got it running after installing DosBox(which is an old dos emulator because XP doesn't support XCom) and some help from my little brother sending me the files after install.
But the help files are halarious...i've forgotten what it was like back in '94 when this game came out.
ReadMe File:
MEMORY
Due to the game's size and complexity you may experience difficulties
while playing on a machine with only 2 MB of RAM.
1. If your game fails to load, remove EMM386 from your CONFIG.SYS.
UFO runs in protected mode so it does not require an expanded memory
driver.
2. If you do not get sound effects for certain events from your
Gravis or Soundblaster card, this is due to a lack of available RAM.
This could be caused by superfluous TSR (terminate and stay resident)
programs in your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. Remove these TSR
programs and all sound will play correctly.