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Originally Posted by technophobe
I downloaded X-com Enemy Unknown/UFO Defence. When I click on the Alien icon the screen goes black and after a short while a bar of garbled colours comes across the top of the screen, there is sound but you can't make out any images. Needless to say the program is useless. If I click on the yellow sun/star icon titled simply 'UFO' the game starts up and is playable until you intercept a crashed UFO which seems to be the signal for the game it's self to crash.
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The game does that on certain machines. If it crashes every time like that, you will have to run the DOS version of the game using DOSBox - simply because there is no other option.
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I've no idea what a dosbox is, so I'm certain I must be running the Windows version.
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A beginners guide to DOSBox, written by yours truly, should quickly get you past that misconception. :amused:
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Is DOS that scary black box which contains technical jargon?
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Scary? Only if you never knew it. You won't be dealing with most of said "technical jargon" anyway.
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I don't like that, it looks too easy to break your computer by playing with that.
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Just like _r.u.s.s. said, you won't be dealing with real DOS, so you won't risk anything.
Unless you're one of those people who format their hard drives when trying to unpack a file, in which case nobody here could help you anyway.
