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Originally posted by Guest@Jan 13 2006, 06:06 AM
I extract the files to the folder, and there are 2 files there: UFO,
and UFO - Defense. (Along with all the other files that are in the zip folder)
I click on either of them, and it goes into a DOS screen like it's about to play the game, but then just automatically exits.

I'm running Windows 98. Is that a problem?

And is everyone using DOSbox to run this game? Because DOSBox was a little complicated for me to set up..no, thats not true, I'm just lazy.
Would using DOSbox to run it help at all?

theres no INSTALL.EXE or anything?..if not i suggest you try downloading it again it seems to be there in the dl i just did.
Running in WIN98 shouldnt be a prob for a DOS game as win98 has DOS...DOSBox is for us poor buggers with WINXP.

Anyways look for the INSTALLE.EXE sounds to me like you havent installed it even yet.outside of that srry I donno

Originally posted by phyxius@Jan 12 2006, 11:01 PM
Also I cannot seem to save my game. The save game window comes up like normal but when I try to load a saved game, it is not there.

just a silly Question Phy are you playing on an XP operating system and if so have you DL and Installed DOSBox yet?

[gregor]

A question:


How many part does the last mission have? 2 or 3?

Would anyone say that the DOS version of the game is less bug/crash prone? If I ever see this in a shop, I'll buy it straight away. I'm lucky enough to have TFTD (box and all!)

Also, which patches are recommended? :bye:

[Kearnsy]

Well its Abandonware so it is buy definition not being sold by retail anymore...but you most likely find one on Ebay or maybe in a second hand shop.

I bought a copy for about $5 but it didn't work to well so I down loaded this one.

Originally posted by gregor@Jan 13 2006, 07:58 AM
A question:


How many part does the last mission have? 2 or 3?

Just two.

[laiocfar]

Defense is generally just a waste of money and building space. If the aliens start attacking, they keep coming until they eventually get through. It's much more effective to just fight them and get $3,000,000 in equipment instead of having to watch your defenses fire off every other day.

The little problem is that if they are ethereals, they will KICK U and blow the base...

well, In the DOS download of the game there is..but when I click on the batch file, it opens up a DOS screen and tells me its a bad command or file name. Im'a take it into wordpad and see if I can fix anything.

[Sharp]

To all these people with running problems. Do you have any savegame folders? If not then create them by creating empty folders called Game_1, Game_2 so on until Game_10.

[Gehennah]

I'm new to this forum but I've discovered this site since a couple of months now and I just wanted to say thank you to the ones running it for dedicating some space for those golden oldies!!

One of them is X-com or Ufo enemy unknown and I've played that game for countless hours and I still enjoy it. Too bad that my processor is too fast so it renders the game unplayable.... :angry:

I'll have to dust off my ancient computer and start playing it again!!