| 24-10-2004 01:53 AM | |
| Eagle of Fire |
It is on that site that I have found how to make Apocalypse work on XP without DOSBox. I never noticed there was also some help on Xcom 1 and 2 too, probably because I never ran into a problem when running those games. I am pretty sure that site is of a very high quality and can be trusted. |
| 24-10-2004 01:04 AM | |
| MicahDG |
I am kind of late to the discussion here but maybe I can offer some info. The blue icon .exe is the collector's edition game executable, which can only be run in a win32 or ntfs environment. Starting the game with this executable is quite often the cause of the garbled and blurry graphics. The yellow icon executable is f0dder's loader which correct the garbled graphics bug that is present in the collector's editions of both UFO and TFTD. But there are still a lot of bugs with the collector's edition. If anyone else is having trouble with UFO crashing (no pun intended here) there is a good list of solutions here: http://www.xcomufo.com/x1faq.html The best solution these days seems to be using the dos version of the game with dosbox, but as you can see in the above link, there are several patched collector's edition .exe's that not only fix the graphics bug, but a host of other bugs, including correcting the game speed on all newer computers. Hope it helps somebody. |
| 14-10-2004 09:30 PM | |
| Eagle of Fire |
That's the place. I use version 1.2 at the bottom of the page. 
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| 14-10-2004 05:12 PM | |
| Kosta |
You can find links to various versions here: http://www.xcomdl.com/ Hope that helps |
| 14-10-2004 04:26 PM | |
| Eagle of Fire | I remember finding it with a link on this very board, but I can't seem to remember where exactly. Someone else might be able to give you more help on finding that link. |
| 14-10-2004 02:38 PM | |
| JoM | Care to link us to the original version? Or is that the one hosted on the site? |
| 12-10-2004 06:09 AM | |
| Eagle of Fire |
If you want to use DosBOX to run Xcom, then you need the MSDos version. The newer "updated for Windows" version will never work under a DOS environement. Also, the newer version has very choppy sound (or so I heard, I've found and d/l the original version  )
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| 11-10-2004 09:08 PM | |
| Havell | Usually the blue icon will not work or is full of errors, I have never had problems when using the yellow icon so I use that all of the time. |
| 11-10-2004 07:11 PM | |
| Tom Henrik | If you downloaded the game from this site, it will have to .exe files.... one will have a blue icon and one will have a yellow icon. One is for DOS and the other is for WINDOWS. I think the blue one is for Windows. |
| 11-10-2004 06:55 PM | |
| JoM | I also get this problem, something to do with "The game wasn't designed to run in MS-DOS mode". |
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