Cadmus Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 Well it runs fine until I try to build me first base, it then crashes out with a long error. I'm running the $old Out version of UFO under XP using VDMsound and nothing else (in the way of retro utilities). Obviously the error message would help but I can't remember it off the top of my head so I'll have to post it later. Any-one know of this error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mouse Nightshirt Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 Could be conflicting drivers, or the game may not be installed properly. I'm not sure about using it with XP. I have an old 166 for my X-Com games. I don't go near my XP machine with X-Com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooda Posted January 24, 2003 Report Share Posted January 24, 2003 Hmm, I've got the same version of UFO. If I remember correctly, is Unknown misspelt? I don't have UFO loaded on my XP machine, but I need my X-COM fix, so I'll try to get it going tonight, and see if it works. If it doesn't, I'll post the error, and/or possible fix here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted January 24, 2003 Report Share Posted January 24, 2003 i vaguely remember having this problem with my soldout version....the error message says something about missing files, da? if so the trick is to:1) load an empty save game slot (trust me, ok) 2) save immediately. do nothing else.3) copy the files in the save game folder (the one you saved into) to where it says they are missing from.... voila... it worked for me anyway... or, if they are on the cd then copy them from there. btw, /me has three version: collectors, sold out, and origional (still in shrink wrap i might add) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disciple of Yevon Posted January 24, 2003 Report Share Posted January 24, 2003 I have the Sold Out version and Win 98. It works until the "Begin mission" screen comes up, then says my missdata file could not be opened. There's only one file there, Dum.bin and it takes up three bytes. Any idea how to fix it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted January 24, 2003 Report Share Posted January 24, 2003 The dos edition... The dum.bin file is just a placeholder to ensure that the missdat directory was created when the game was unpacked and installed. Most old games did that. The missdat folder just stores data of the current battle in progress (usually the first turn) and/or the results from the last mission. It's really just a save file. Whenever you terminate the current executable's execution with ctrl+c/ctrl+break (which only works in the dos edition), the missdat directory is where the game gets the results from the last battle from. It's okay to erase the contents of this folder as the game will automatically generate the needed files in there. But if your game is not generating them, something must be wrong. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disciple of Yevon Posted January 25, 2003 Report Share Posted January 25, 2003 Well, when I click yes on the begin mission screen the music plays but it freezes. If I press F2 a box comes up saying: Cannot open missdat file (Insert name here). And I'm not sure if it's related, but when I CDSETUP the music it says it failed to write, null pointer assignment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted January 26, 2003 Report Share Posted January 26, 2003 Hmm, peculiar. Just wondering, does your copy run off a cd? I recall some of the earlier copies of UFO that came on compact discs installed a minimal number of files onto the hard drive and kept most of the data files on the cd in order to save space. I'm wondering if the game's trying to write to the missdat folder on the cd. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disciple of Yevon Posted January 30, 2003 Report Share Posted January 30, 2003 Yeah, it's the CD version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted January 30, 2003 Report Share Posted January 30, 2003 Did you run the setup program from the HARDDRIVE folder on the cd? If I'm not mistaken, that's where you the full installation version of the game resides. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disciple of Yevon Posted January 31, 2003 Report Share Posted January 31, 2003 There is no Hard drive folder. I installed it with Setup95.exe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted January 31, 2003 Report Share Posted January 31, 2003 Was that the only setup file on the cd? You could try exploring the cd a bit. It's probably under a different directory name. I recall the setup for the full installation was in the 'harddrive' directory in the Terror Unknown compilation (With a missing intro.exe file for UFO). - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disciple of Yevon Posted February 2, 2003 Report Share Posted February 2, 2003 What's the install file called? And mine isn't the TU compilation, mine has an intro.exe and a intr.o. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted February 3, 2003 Report Share Posted February 3, 2003 Hmm, can't say. You could try and get a directory listing of all the *.exe files on your cd. Heck, if that doesn't turn anything up, try looking for *.com and maybe even try the *.bat files as well. I suppose you could install the game the normal way and then copy all the data files over, but I've never done that before so I wouldn't know if it would work, or whether you'd need to make a few tweaks in the batch file or not. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonHawk Posted February 3, 2003 Report Share Posted February 3, 2003 Hmm, ok, I've got a CD version here, and it's activated by a hdinst.bat. Here are the contents: @ECHO OFFCLSCD \HARDDISKINSTALLCD\ So, for the DOS command challenged, it goes into the folder name harddisk and activates install. That's the exact spacing too, I'm not sure about the slashes... At any rate, this CD is the one that came packaged with UFO, Master of Orion, and Master of Magic. I don't have this Setup95.exe though. Is this the Collector's Edition? Maybe with this info, someone with the same version could help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roswell_47 Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 hmmm.......well i have the original and the sold out version, but i run mine in the dos shell in windows'98 never really had any problems with either of them........ but i would recommend, partitioning your drive and installing Windows '98 on there, because 98 works best for running games, any kind of games....... :devil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disciple of Yevon Posted February 6, 2003 Report Share Posted February 6, 2003 Finally installed it. It was install.bat I had to click on, then some MS-DOS commands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted February 22, 2003 Report Share Posted February 22, 2003 Talk about coincidence... I found a copy of said UFO distributed by Sold Out Software in the bargain bins. It's the cd version all right -- and version 1.4 to boot. For your convenience, you can make a full install by installing it as normal and then copying the files the installer didn't copy over into the game directory on your harddrive. You'll need to copy the following directories and everything in them: UNITSUFOGRAPHUFOEXEUFO2EXETERRAINRUNEXEROUTESMAPSGEOGRAPHGEODATA And you'll need to copy UFOINT\ufoint.fli if you want the intro, otherwise, this file is optional. If you used the plain copy command through dos or the windows explorer to copy the files over, You will also want to go to each directory and remove the read-only attribute from all the files -- not sure how important the 'archive' flag is, but you might want to set it. I tried it, and the game no longer reads off the cd. If you're successful, you might want to rename ufocd.bat to plain old ufo.bat, since using ufocd to run the game directly off the harddrive and not the cd could be somewhat misleading. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadmus Posted April 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2003 Still no luck, but I've got it narrowed down to this... C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe - ufocdThe NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal operationCS:0000 IP:0077 OP:f0 37 05 0e 02 What does this mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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