Thanks for the compliment.. it's a tough one to try to live up to. ;-)
Cheers!
Jimmy.
| Thank You once again Jimmy you are the Master of XP game compatibility and
| we bow to your knowledge......LOL
| "Jimmy S." <Private> wrote in message
| | > Hi Eric,
| >
| > Jane's is a little trickier to install, here's the trick to it..
| >
| > "OK, I figured out how to make it work. The problem is
| > that the setup program is not Win XP compatible. You can
| > get around this by copying the entire CD to your hard
| > drive. Next overwrite the setup.exe and _setup.dll with
| > new ones from another game (I used Jane's USAF). Then
| > run the setup from your hard drive (I did the full
| > install). Next, make sure your game is patched to at
| > least version 1.2 (available from the Jane's site).
| > Finally, go to your registry and find the entry for Fleet
| > command. Edit the setting for the CD Path to your CD
| > drive letter since it will be set to wherever you
| > installed your game from. That's it."
| >
| > I did the above and it worked great. Could even apply the patches/updates
| > afterwords.
| >
| >
|
http://groups.google.com/groups?q="...TF-8&selm=#PCNq7KiBHA.2092@tkmsftngp07&rnum=2
| >
| >
| > --
| > Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
| > Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
| >
| >
| > Game FAQs:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;[LN];gms
| > Visit my Zone.com / Gaming Helpsite:
http://nibblesnbits.tk or Call /
| Contact
| > MS Support at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=sz;en-us;top
| > My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any
| rights.
| > _________________________________________________________
| >
| >
| | > |I followed advice given to me on this news server about older games and
| > | finally got simcity3000 to load and run. Now I thought well let me pull
| out
| > | some other games and try the same stuff like "Janes Fleet Command" well
| > | after shutting down all the processes in task manager and telling it to
| load
| > | the setup.exe file I get this error "D:\setup.exe is not a valid Win32
| > | application" Is there anyway to get around this problem?
| > |
| > | Eric
| > |
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