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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/games/expert/durham_og.mspx
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| Correction of link:
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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/ games/expert/durham_og.mspx
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| Galen wrote:
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| >In | >LaraPhoenix <
[email protected]> had this to say:
| >
| > My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
| >
| >
| >
| >>I have, or rather my father has an old Win 95 game (Congo descent
| >>into zinj) he really loved but never got to finished because our win
| >>95 computer died; we have over 5 computers in our house now, all on
| >>one version of xp or another, and none will play it. It says it
| >>sucessfully installs but then freezes on a black screen when you try
| >>to run it.
| >>I have tried running the installation exe in compatibility, as well
| >>as the program exe itself; I've tried running it from dos; I've tried
| >>copying the whole cd contents onto the hard drive and making
| >>everything compatible and then running the installer from the hard
| >>drive- Same Result. What Can I Do? Always happy to live and learn,
| >>LaraPhoenix
| >>
| >>
| >
| >
| >List of stuff to try - in order...
| >
| >Right click the .EXE file in the program files after installing it, select
| >properties, select compatability, and set it to be 95 comp. I realize you
| >said you did so but could you triple check and make sure that it was for 95?
| >You might want to go ahead and tweak it - there's a LOT that CAN be done
| >with this but that's a lot of overwhelming information so we'll skip that
| >for now.
| >
| >Getting Older Games to Run on Windows XP:
| >
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/games/expert/durham_og.mspx&e=9797
| >
| >(That's a good article)
| >
| >Finally there's a small learning curve but if you were able to find here you
| >can configure it (and then make a shortcut and make sure it works and
| >explain it if you're father's not computer savy) with this application. This
| >will give you DOS emulation and is by far the most likely to work solution.
| >
| >DOSBox, a x86 emulator with DOS:
| >
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
| >
| >
| >Galen
| >
| >
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