Cannot Install Collectors Ed On Xp

[lewski]

can anyone give me an answer as to why when i run the install through autorun it seems to take and the stops. i tried to bypass and manually copy to hard drive and run setup and i have also tried compatability program. my win98 system crashed and ive been missing this game. i have been playing ufo and terror since origination of the series. any ideas or help will be appreciated. Thanks

[NRN_R_Sumo1]

Have you tried using a torrent and daemon tools?

Since you seem to own the cd, it wouldnt be against forum policy to suggest it. O:

 

Try *somewhere* for getting old and new games.

 

I tend to download torrents of games which I cant get otherwise. xD

Edited October 2, 2007 by Zombie
Posting links where to get the game illegally is against forum policy however. Link removed.

[zaimoni]

can anyone give me an answer as to why when i run the install through autorun it seems to take and the stops. i tried to bypass and manually copy to hard drive and run setup and i have also tried compatability program. my win98 system crashed and ive been missing this game. i have been playing ufo and terror since origination of the series. any ideas or help will be appreciated. Thanks

I'm unclear which game is giving you difficulty.

 

XCOM Apocalypse:

Manually copy to hard drive does not work in any environment. The installer not only makes some hardware-dependent decisions on which executables you actually need, operating-system tolerance for an exotic assembly-language manuever is somewhat limited above Win98. [in particular, VirtualPC *won't* do this emulation.] It also needs reasonable VESA 2.0 support. There's also a config file that needs to be adjusted if you relocate the installation.

 

Above Win98, the CD-ROM causes a crashout. Using a CD-ROM mirror created in a lower OS causes the CD-ROM speed check to outright fail during installation. It's probably simplest to get the install known-working, then archive it. (Including breaking the CD-ROM check; U.S.-not-prosecutable by Library of Congress override of DCMA under obsolete-hardware-copy-protection escape, as long as no modern port is for sale.)

 

Enemy Unknown/Terror From the Deep:

Install normally, then follow up with installing XCOMUtil to get a loader that normalizes the graphics. There are modern ports being sold for these two.

[lewski]

yes i do own the game. actually 2 copies of it. thanks for the idea on the torrent and daemon tools. i've never used either for anything. are there any cons to using these. My wife shares this particular system and if I screwed something up my happy life would be in doubt. i'm in the process of convincing her i need a new system so i don't have to fight with her to get on. My Win98 hard drive is OK so I could set up a dual boot and still play my older saved games, but she's a hard sell Edited October 3, 2007 by lewski

[lewski]

ZAIMONI

My problem is with ufo/terror. apocalypse goes into the install and gives a failure error. a problem for another day.

it seems to me in the good old days win 3.1 and before you could manually install,BUT MY MEMORY COULD JUST BE CLOUDY. I'm dating myself "huh". My 1st computer was a commodore64 in the early 80's i think, and I know just enough about software and hardware to be a menace to myself. I didn't expect the manual copy to work, but I was hoping I could fiddle with either setup or autorun using compatability program to run install or just find something. A SHOT IN THE DARK

[NRN_R_Sumo1]

Zaimoni, some games DO indeed install if put onto the hard drive, please check into your data before posting rumours

Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2 for example, works Better than normal if you were to do this. o:

 

but aside from that.

 

When using torrents you need to be careful what you download, think smart.

Daemon tools uses virtual drives which may raise questions by your wife about "Hey, wheres this new cd rom drive you apparently have?"

 

How it works, The image you burn onto the cd's is saved as an Iso file or some such, and the iso file is an entire cd.

Daemon tools opens the iso files and tricks your computer into thinking they are running from a dvd drive, rather than your hard drive.

 

Good luck sir. *salutes*

 

Just remember, dont download Porn on torrents.

Tend to get virus's

[zaimoni]

ZAIMONI

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it seems to me in the good old days win 3.1 and before you could manually install,BUT MY MEMORY COULD JUST BE CLOUDY.

It isn't. The DOS installer was that simple.

 

Looking at the Collectors' Edition CD-ROM on my end: It looks like you'll need a decompressor that works on *.CAB files to do a manual install.

 

If you haven't tried bypassing autorun and running setup.exe directly: try that. One less program to go wrong.

[zaimoni]

Zaimoni, some games DO indeed install if put onto the hard drive, please check into your data before posting rumours

I did mirror the XCOM Apoc CD onto hard drive in Win95, then attempted the following:

* Install to Win2K from hard drive: CD-ROM speed 0x, Blue Screen Of Death upon override

* Install to VirtualPC/FreeDOS in Win2K: CD-ROM speed 0x, Blue Screen of Death upon override (EDIT: actually made an iso image for VirtualPC, but same results)

* Manual install to Win2K: Blue Screen Of Death after hitting return for xcomapoc /skip. Who knows if I guessed right on which executables were actually needed....

* (EDIT) I even tried install to Win95 from hard-drive CD-ROM mirror. CD-ROM speed 0x, install superficially worked, but resulting game was unplayable (crashed out when trying to start a turn-based mission). Ineffectual.

 

What I actually did was install from CD-ROM in Win95, then applied the CD-ROM check disable and xcopy'ed the other required files. Then archived. xcomapoc /skip works fine in Win95, as long as you remember to hit return.

 

Of course, I do deserve the Blue Screen of Death when tabbing back to a minimized XCOM Apocalypse with even one other command line box in the taskbar, and there are some preconditions on tabbing away. And Apoc'd only works in W2K, not Win95 (DirectX driver weirdness, NVidia is not awesome in that regard).

Edited October 3, 2007 by zaimoni

[NRN_R_Sumo1]

Zaimoni, there could be a problem with your cd, the images arent always perfect when scratches are present.

but as you Might have guessed, the torrents have all the fixes you need which are available from our very own website ^.^

 

Your cd wouldnt have those of course, thus being unfixed and not working very well. [:

[zaimoni]

Zaimoni, there could be a problem with your cd, the images arent always perfect when scratches are present.

but as you Might have guessed, the torrents have all the fixes you need which are available from our very own website ^.^

 

Your cd wouldnt have those of course, thus being unfixed and not working very well. [:

Indeed; the only patch I needed from this site, to get it running in 1GHz Win95 autonomously, was the CD-ROM check disabler. I stopped patching and archived at that point.

 

Both CDs have been D-Skinned "just in case".