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Offline Lynx

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on: January 10, 2005, 03:16:18 pm
I've recently installed Tiberium conflict again on my XP machine but whenever I try to start it it says it can't find some procedureentering point or whatever in kernel32.dll and quits. Any help?
Give a man fire and he'll be warm for a day, but set fire to him and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
 

Offline Roanoke

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Reply #1 on: January 10, 2005, 04:48:41 pm
You can have XP operate as per earlier versions (ME, 98 etc). It's in the XP help files.

Try that.
  

Offline Liberator

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Reply #2 on: January 10, 2005, 04:55:00 pm
This should help.  It's a widespread problem and Westwood isn't around to help with the problem.
So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

There are only 10 types of people in the world , those that understand binary and those that don't.
 

Offline Roanoke

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Reply #3 on: January 10, 2005, 04:59:08 pm
Proven right. Once again. Thankyou, thankyou. ;)
 

Offline kode

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Reply #4 on: January 10, 2005, 04:59:45 pm
Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
- Ambrose Bierce
<Redfang> You're almost like Stryke 9 or an0n
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
- Aldous Huxley
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
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Offline Liberator

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Reply #5 on: January 10, 2005, 05:46:46 pm
I never could get dosbox to run MoM.
So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

There are only 10 types of people in the world , those that understand binary and those that don't.
 

Offline Kosh

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Reply #6 on: January 10, 2005, 07:54:01 pm
Westwood's coding practices suck, that is why their older games (C&C 1 and RA 1) have problems running on newer machines.
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"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Liberator

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Reply #7 on: January 10, 2005, 11:04:39 pm
Well, since the original C&C(not Gold) required manual hardware configuation...
So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

There are only 10 types of people in the world , those that understand binary and those that don't.
 

Offline Swamp_Thing

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Reply #8 on: January 11, 2005, 12:50:09 am
Tiberian Sun works fine with my XP. I never needed to play in compatibility mode or anything. I just install and play...
Maybe it´s your system.
No Freespace 3 ?!? Oh, bugger...
 

Offline Liberator

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Reply #9 on: January 11, 2005, 01:08:33 am
I was talking about the original C&C, BEFORE the recode for Windows 95.  You had to manually configure your hardware.  Which meant you had to know what kind of sound card you had and whether it emulated a Soundblaster, what version of soundblaster(new or old), the IRQ it was set to, it's DMA address, and all that jazz.  You turkeys don't know how good you have it now having a unified standard like DX, it used to be a shot in the dark as to whether a game would work sometimes.
So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

There are only 10 types of people in the world , those that understand binary and those that don't.
 

Offline kode

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Reply #10 on: January 11, 2005, 07:03:07 am
that was the case with most, if not all, dos games. except for the ones using the pc speaker. and it was never a shot in the dark if you actually knew wtf you had in your comp. and usually it was irq 3, dma 5, and 220h, or something like that.
Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
- Ambrose Bierce
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- Aldous Huxley
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
 

Offline Kosh

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Reply #11 on: January 11, 2005, 09:57:00 pm
What I meant was they had problems running on NEWER machines. My brain was not entirely "there" when I wrote the post.
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

Brain I/O error
Replace and press any key
 

Offline Scuddie

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Reply #12 on: January 12, 2005, 01:54:23 am
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Originally posted by kode
and usually it was irq 3, dma 5, and 220h, or something like that.
**Cracks knuckles**

It was SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 T6...
Breaking that down, was a 220-22F address, IRQ 5, DMA 1, High channel DMA 5, BLASTER type 6.  I believe that was the AWE32 IIRC.

I also remember the line for the original SB cards...  SET BLAST=A220 I7 D1, and NOTHING else worked.  Boy oh boy, those were the days :D.
Bunny stole my signature :(.

Sorry boobies.
 

Offline Flipside

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Reply #13 on: January 12, 2005, 01:56:58 am
ROFL!

I try to forget them...
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