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    Apoc'd

    The "Apoc'd can't recognise my version of UFO2P/TACP.EXE" error - solved! tl;dr: Exit Apoc'd. Delete APOC'BAK.ORD. Restart Apoc'd. Done! I just started re-playing XCom:Apoc when my son discovered it on Steam. I dug out my old CD (1997 was pre-DVD, youngsters), fiddled with some DOSBOX command line options, and voila! I half-remembered some savegame utilities from back in the day. I don't remember Apoc'd (I think I used to use Xed) but Apoc is far superior. Including being able to switch roles of the agents :-) which is just what I was looking for. Send some of those excess agents for job retraining! And soon I had four advanced workrooms full of engineers. I was having fun squashing aliens and didn't notice that one of Diablo's tenements was collateral damage during a UFO attack. They decided to wait until most of my agents were off in the other dimension to invade my base. I had two agents still there... and 40 technicians. They got three of them, including 2 engineers. And wouldn't you know it? no Engineers waiting to be hired. I fired up Apoc'd to make some edits, and got the message: Apoc'd can't recognise my version of UFO2P/TACP.EXE (Actually, I think the message had the patch in there in addition to the file name - more like "Can't find APOK'BAK.ORD\TACDATA\ufo2p.exe.) Oh no! I didn't have a backup of UFO2P.EXE or TACP.EXE (dunno if that's still required/recommended). I tried re-installing the game, no dice. I started fiddling with APOC'BAK.ORD. No change. Then I noticed another file: APOC'BAK.bak. Deleted that, still no change. I figured, what do I have to lose? it's already broken. Deleted APOC'BAK.ORD. And there was great rejoicing! So simple, even low-skill noobs like me can fix it! Thanks for the great util! I half-remembered some savegame utilities from back in the day. I don't remember Apoc'd (I think I used to use Xed) but Apoc is far superior. Including being able to switch roles of the agents :-) which is just what I was looking for.
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