Help in running an old game on Win XP

Factual Questions
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Inspired by a recent thread on X-Com: Ufo Enemy Unknown, I dug up my old copy and installed it on my Win XP machine. It’s a P4 2gh, so I expected it to be a little quick. The quickness I could handle - but it doesn’t work full stop! It lets me start a game, and then boots me out when I try to build a base!

I’ve turned off all the sound (I remembered from my distant DOS days that the sound cards caused a headache all the time) but no luck. I’ve also tried creating a DOS boot disk - but to no avail. It still chucks me out at the same point.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

John

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Right click on the program that opens the game and select compatability. Select an older version of Windows that the game did work with and select the check box. I had the same problem with a couple older games myself.

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http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~hayati/games.html
http://www.the-underdogs.org/guidewin.php

Disclaimer: I haven’t tried any of these instructions myself, since I don’t run Windows. I just found them by searching for {WinXP old program compatibility}.