booyaa Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 Hi all just found this forum and was wondering if anyone was still playing? Some of the old timers may remember as me I actualyl won the first unity league back when Eisley(or jimmy of the yewhaw as I call him!) was running it! So if anyone fancies a game I'm in - providing that 'world of stuart's' 'patch' works of course... Cheers Booyaa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimli Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 We recently discussed E-mail X-Com, but I suggest asking Pete more about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 I still have all the tournament files (Eisley's tournament files as I ran it for while afterwards) and would love to get it all up and running again, but I have a feeling it may not play well on Vista. Still, I have XP on my laptop so that should work. What's the patch you're talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 This I assume. The "patch link" goes to X-Com Tactical Command. I am most amused. Still more by the instructions as to how to play with no patches at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 Well that doesn't work on Vista either. Don't see any .xem files appear anywhere on my hard drive and I followed those instructions to the letter this time Yup, I didn't click OK before checking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 I commandeered my landlord's Vista laptop for a test, worked fine. But, I can think of a couple of things that might be affecting you. Vista is very anal about security. Check the permissions on that "temp" folder, make sure the Everyone group has Full Control of it. If that doesn't work, try right clicking the program's executable and check if there's a "Run as Administrator" mode or something there. It occurs to me that tankman's patch probably relies on the XEM file appearing in that Temp folder too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 That's what I was thinking. The only other thig it did (which was quite neat) was work out the name of the map and (I think) who it was from and who it was to. I think. I could be wrong. I'll have another fiddle at the weekend. T'is likely just Sectoids plotting against my PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booyaa Posted February 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 cool just popped back and noticed you guys had replied I couldn't get the 'world of stuart' version to work and I don't have the original 'patched' no-server version that Adrian S gave me back when we were all playing... any ideas anyone? PS I might well bring this back for iPhone ... PPS I run Monumental Games www.monumentalgames.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 23, 2009 Report Share Posted February 23, 2009 It's probably just not uninstalled everything it installed the first three times BB. I'll do a clean sweep of any files and registry entries it may have loaded and try again. @booyaa - If you bring it back for the iPhone, can you do mer a huge favour and make it work on the G1 android (linux-based) as I've just bought one? Pocket PC would be another good port. In fact, I'd just settle for a working version in Vista if you're thinking of going down that road Ah, the mode games developers the merrier! If ever you do any strategy games that might fall under our remit and want us to post any news, give us a shout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Posted March 14, 2009 Report Share Posted March 14, 2009 In fact, I'd just settle for a working version in Vista if you're thinking of going down that road Ah, the mode games developers the merrier! If ever you do any strategy games that might fall under our remit and want us to post any news, give us a shout. Hi People - I was passing and thought you might like to know that a clean install from the original CD works on my Vista 64bit PC. Been playing using the "World of Stuart" method since last year. Anybody fancy a game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted March 15, 2009 Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 Hi Doug! How's tricks? I'll have to try and wipe all trace from my PC and give it another whirl but I'd love a game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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