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[Japo]

Originally posted by Madgenius@Mar 27 2006, 08:29 PM
Has anybody got any bright ideas as to how I can get this onto my old 486 ?

(I assume your 486 uses Windows, but it's too slow for DOSBox? How can you run Windows in a 486? You must have expanded its RAM, haven't you?)

I don't know if it's bright, but you could use my solution. I installed good old DOS 6.22 in a partition of the hard drive, and I can boot either in Windows (normally) or in DOS (real DOS not "DOS mode" or anything, for playing old games). Then it's not *as if* you were running such game under DOS, it's that you *are* running such game under DOS.

[rlbell]

Originally posted by Madgenius@Mar 27 2006, 08:29 PM
Has anybody got any bright ideas as to how I can get this onto my old 486 ?

What peripherals does your 486 have?

If it has a cd-rom, you download it and burn it to a CD. If not, you will need to download a floppy version (zipped onto four 1.4 meg 3.5" floppies) and copy it over. If you are technically inclined, mount the 486's hard drive into your internet box and copy the files directly.

[Eagle of Fire]

Has anybody got any bright ideas as to how I can get this onto my old 486 ?

I welcome you to open a thread in the Troubleshooting section if you really encounter trouble... But if you have such general questions as the one quoted above, all I'm going to say back is general answers such as:

type "TFTD" and the program should start. :bleh:

As mentioned above, TFTD is meant to be played on a DOS machine. I can't possibly think of problems you can encounter other than the normal old DOS problems. And those aren't "normal" prlblems.

anyone realize the underdogs site (the one that is said to contain the windows version of TFTD) doesnt appear to be operational any longer?

btw, thanks for all your glorious knowledge and wisdom, i just finished reading all the posts, may you bring swift doom to T´leth. :Titan:

you all rock.

love,
stein o mite

p.s. now if only lent was over so i could actually play.

[Japo]

Originally posted by stein o mite@Mar 28 2006, 03:27 AM
anyone realize the underdogs site (the one that is said to contain the windows version of TFTD) doesnt appear to be operational any longer?

Yep, such a pity. Read about it here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_of_the_Underdogs

including how to access to a limited version of the site (no downloads I think).

[yeugz]

[font=Arial][color=blue] hi i bought x-com ages ago and i recently re-installed it on my pc. i never actually finished the game, and i thing it's about time...
i'm playing the game in beginner mode and theres one thing that prevents me from advancing. when i'm in the geoscape, my whole team panics or becomes 'under molecular control' before i can do anything.
what can i do ??? please can someone help ???
cheers thanks!

[Japo]

Originally posted by yeugz@Mar 28 2006, 09:13 PM
i'm playing the game in beginner mode and theres one thing that prevents me from advancing. when i'm in the geoscape, my whole team panics or becomes 'under molecular control' before i can do anything.

Your team suffers molecular attacks while in the geoscape (where you can see the whole Earth)?? This game was buggy, but I don't know if I can believe that without seeing it! :blink:

I assume this happens on missions, that's another deal. If you suffer molecular attacks this means... well, that you've encountered aliens with that skill. It's one of the aliens' more powerful weapon, and you might not be prepared for confronting it at the beginning. So maybe you should leave that UFO alone, and go for the next one. If you're really playing in beginner, such hardships shouldn't turn up often.

However, different soldiers have different resistances to molecular attacks--you get to know this once you research this field. So you might want to transfer that soldier who's always targeted by the aliens' molecular attacks, and transfer him so that you've got one base with a molecular-resistant squad, that's what I do.

[laiocfar]

[font=Arial][color=blue] hi i bought x-com ages ago and i recently re-installed it on my pc. i never actually finished the game, and i thing it's about time...
i'm playing the game in beginner mode and theres one thing that prevents me from advancing. when i'm in the geoscape, my whole team panics or becomes 'under molecular control' before i can do anything. wallbash.gif
what can i do ??? please can someone help ???
cheers thanks!

What type of mission?
Against who?

I still dont get what happens, i never played on that level but in last one, i got the same problem, MC destroys the best quads if you dont upgrade to MC. For avoid this use tanks and grenades of all tipes. During night battles make the light with incendiary ammo or lights. Use your tropers in groups of 4 if there is an alien race without MC. As the MC chance raise, make smaller teams and got a group of MC experts.

Right thanks k: i'll go try that out.
By the way the mission is a terrorzone on a ship. i've never seen the aliens i'm confronting before, they look like little pink ufos which blow up real bad when they die (the buggers). And yes they use molecular control on several of the members of my squad which makes them either panic, get under molecular control and you can imagine the rest... i'm quite early in the game so how come the aliens are using one of their best weapons ?!
thanks again cheers

[laiocfar]

It happens in the first terror mission against telebrains, the key is work undercover, you should enter, shoot, and move out. Anyway, working with MS i made the first level once but in the second ABORT, doing this type of missions is a waste of people