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I've boasted about my fancy radio network on here before, so I needn'd go over it all again! ;-)
So yeah, I have a desktop and a couple of laptops which can access wireless internet from anywhere in the house.
One day I came home to find my brothers playing against each other on an old manager game.
This manager game, is probably the most boring, monotonous game I have ever played, and in multiplayer it's the same, only you have to wait through your opponent's matches before you can play yours! :-S
It looked awful, but it gave me an idea.
I went to a sale and bought 3 PC classics for a tenner (no FPS because you need a mouse and our laptops have those dodgy pad things, besides, we've got a Gamecube for action).
Dungeon Keeper 2 (not tried this yet but my brother says it's good).
Commando's (bloody fantastic classic! Fun, challenging, genius, etc)
And Command And Conquer Red Alert.
And what do I find?
Well, because Red Alert was written for Window 95, it's not working with XP or 98 on the old laptop. That's fantastic MS!
You update your system and forget to make it backwards compatable!
Yeah, it's got a DOS version with it, but the sound doesn't work properly and it can't detect my network for multiplayer.
I don't suppose there's any sort of patch to let it work on XP?
So yeah, I have a desktop and a couple of laptops which can access wireless internet from anywhere in the house.
One day I came home to find my brothers playing against each other on an old manager game.
This manager game, is probably the most boring, monotonous game I have ever played, and in multiplayer it's the same, only you have to wait through your opponent's matches before you can play yours! :-S
It looked awful, but it gave me an idea.
I went to a sale and bought 3 PC classics for a tenner (no FPS because you need a mouse and our laptops have those dodgy pad things, besides, we've got a Gamecube for action).
Dungeon Keeper 2 (not tried this yet but my brother says it's good).
Commando's (bloody fantastic classic! Fun, challenging, genius, etc)
And Command And Conquer Red Alert.
And what do I find?
Well, because Red Alert was written for Window 95, it's not working with XP or 98 on the old laptop. That's fantastic MS!
You update your system and forget to make it backwards compatable!
Yeah, it's got a DOS version with it, but the sound doesn't work properly and it can't detect my network for multiplayer.
I don't suppose there's any sort of patch to let it work on XP?
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Who knows... :-)
MS let us all down!
End of story! :-D
MS let us all down!
End of story! :-D
The floppy disk would have been an overide command to boot straight into a DOS environment, providing one exists.
That is, unless I am totally wrong :D
That is, unless I am totally wrong :D
Edgy wrote:
> That's because you need a DOS system to exist for it to boot into.
I did on the Floppy Disk....
Atleast I thought it was.
> That's because you need a DOS system to exist for it to boot into.
I did on the Floppy Disk....
Atleast I thought it was.
LOL! Even I coulda figured that one out. :P
Edgy wrote:
> That's because you need a DOS system to exist for it to boot into.
Oh how i laugh at Win XP users.
> That's because you need a DOS system to exist for it to boot into.
Oh how i laugh at Win XP users.
That's because you need a DOS system to exist for it to boot into.
I couldn't get it to work in a boot-disk DOS mode either!
:'-(
Screw it! :-D
:'-(
Screw it! :-D
It is because Worms United is DOS based and Windows XP doesn't support DOS.
I'm suprised there hasn't been some kind of DOS emulator released yet.
I'm suprised there hasn't been some kind of DOS emulator released yet.
Pretty poor.
When a bug is so bad that the game doesn't work properly, you'd think a quick ironing would be standard with a re-issue like Sold Out...
When a bug is so bad that the game doesn't work properly, you'd think a quick ironing would be standard with a re-issue like Sold Out...
not even a port - for it has only been repackaged with the stupid 'Sold Out' installer added to it.
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