damn, why isnt it working under win xp sp2 ? :wall:

It doesn't work under XP at all. Not on anyone's PC, but I think Dosbox may run it.

Well it does say it's XP compatible... Strange. :blink:

i like it but i dont like to play it with my lights off

This is, without a doubt, the best abandonware game ever...

Then why is Civilization II so much fun to play?
Civ II beats it by miles.

ok. I´ve been trying now for 7 hours. I´ve read everything. I´ve tried everything. But nothing works.
If I use the underdogs version, the archive seems to be broken and gives a cryptic error message.
(X#=0D, CS=01AF IP=000014DF.NTVDM-CPU) This happens with cmd and VDM.
If I try the abandonia version there are many nice options to get the game not working:
1. If I just klick the exe, a black prompt pops up and closes again. (What did i suspect?!)
2. If I use VDM...same thing (ok, the prompt stays, but saying nothing)
3. If I use DosBox it runs, but is very slow (with or without sound).
4. If I try the suggested *.bat file (with the renamed Dos32a.exe, nolfb & clinop(here could be the mistake, i´m not sure if i´m doing this right, just extracting the "bin" archive into the blood folder and then adding the command to the *.bat?) ) it says "0 occurences".
5. If I try the same thing without clinop under XP, a prompt opens, there´s a beep and it closes again. With VDM, there´s a huge error messagse (looking like the good old Blue Screen of Death, but in Black)
6. Some of the last errors seem to be connected to the new dos4gw. (if I replace it with the original, the errors mentioned further above ocurre again :) )
7. If I try to run setup.exe with VDM it says "Spawn Error=0"

Does anyone have an idea what to do and where to begin?

What are your computer specs? It may give some insight into your problem.

For example, I've got a 1.1Ghz celeron with 640mb ram, a geforce4 mx and running winxp sp1... and the game runs well, with sound and all, directly. Without dosbox.

yeah i forgot to add them.
I have an athlon XP+ 1800, Radeon 9600XT and Win SP1.

Groovy game, especially in multiplayer....insane kills with pichfork...thnx a lot for this game! :ok: