Re: Earth 2140 Mission Disk - Final Conflict

On 01-Nov-07 11:29:37, Petteri Valli said
>Angus Manwaring <angus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> I've recently bought Earth 2140: Final Conflict (the mission disk. I
have
>> a problem making it work though. It insisted on installing into my
>> existing Earth 2140 directory, fair enough I thought, but the trouble
is
>> after the installation neither the original game nor the newly
installed
>> one works any more. When I click on any of the icons I get an error
>> message "bad number". Any ideas?

>Hmmm... I seem to have installed mission disk over the original game (and
>renamed to-be-overwriten files to another name). Works fine that way...

>How about if you try to run .exe files directly from the shell? Not
>clicking the script files, which have icons.

Good call, that gets it running okay.

>"bad number" could sound like missing screenmode, which could result
>complain about missing modeid number... but if the original game worked
>earlier and you haven't modified any screen modes...

No mods as far as I know. I'll have an experiment around.

Thanks.  :)


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