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Well... That file, general.mix, I just have it, but it still doesn't work. And what is VDM? (maybe a strange question for you, but not for me).

[Nyerguds]

VDMS is a sound emulator. While DOSBox needs huge amounts of CPU to emulate an entire DOS environment, VDMSound takes hardly any CPU power at all to emulate just the sound card. Oddly enough, just this small sound card emulator is usually enough to get old games running perfectly. On my XP Pro it gets 90% of all old games running, even those that don't run at all without VDMS.

You just have to make sure the sound settings (Port, DMA and IRQ) you set in VDMS are the same that are set in the game. For C&C you can check those in the config file CONQUER.INI

About that general.mix... if it doesn't work, try this one:
http://geocities.com/nyerguds/stuff/
file is general.zip
It doesn't have the German or French stuff though... using this file to run one of the different-language versions may crash the game.

Ummm Ive been having trouble installing this game on my Xp, but I found a solution, that I just thought I'd share.

Taken from Megagames.com site:

Hey Everyone, OK I got it working today on my XP for the first time, so thanks to the guys who made the patch file.
So to help the rest of you, this is what you got to do:
1. Explore your CD for the Setup.exe and goto the properties of the application.
2. Click the Compatability tab and select Windows95 as the compatibility.
3. Then double click the Setup.exe and instal as normal.
4. Then click the Download tab at the top of this page and click on the ccgoldxppatch.zip link and download the patch.
5. Then extract the file thipx32.dll file to the installed directry and replace the original
6. Select the C&C95.exe and goto the properties of the application.
7. Click the Compatability tab and select Windows95 as the compatibility.
8. Fianlly run the game, and presto!
This work well with the original, but I have no idea if the LAN will work. And now after so long I can re-live the good old days of Command -&- Conquer

Get the patch here
http://www.megagames.com/news/show.cgi?&id...ction=comments&

I dunno if this helps only those of us, with the original cd's or not, but I hope it helps anyway.

[BeefontheBone]

That's all fine for the Gold (Win 95) version, but not relevant to the DOS version we have here AFAIK.

[Nyerguds]

yeah. Also, LAN does NOT work. the patch actively disables it because the old LAN protocols C&C's LAN multiplayer is built on are incompatible with XP's

[Hunter.exe]

c&c is the best startagy i have ever played oh and i have gold and it runs fine on win 98(this is with the origonal cds).

You damn tank rushers...
cnc:generals where the first where, you did not have tank rush to win the game.

[Morbid_Pathologist]

hah, generals is a joke, you can EASILY tank rush...and its slow...and looks horrible...and has nothing to do with C&C at all (in my mind it doesnt)

you can use this app called TCP/IP ( i think thats the name) since the XP patch doesnt disable serial play you use that program...i havent tried it myself, but theres a site (on planetC&C somewhere) with the instructions...nyerguds knows...

[Nyerguds]

The app is called TCP/COM.
Full explanation on how to do it is here.

I already played C&C that way. DOS against Gold even. Worked fine.

[dwarfo]

The commad & conquer series are perfect, i mean i have an old notebook and i play command & conquer when i`m off home, it`s nice feeling when you pack out notebook out in car when going 4hours on the back seats and play even c`n`c :blink: