X-Com Mod?

[Pax]

Originally posted by Taera:
hey leo, my full support to you! X-Com rules, a pity i never got Interceptor. Still, all the rest are fun. And yes, X-Com 2 is better but X-Com 1 has that special feel to it.

I loved the X-Com eries.

I got Interceptor based on the prior games.

It spent THREE HOURS on my hard drive, before I ripped it back off and put the disk away again.

XCOM: Interceptor SUCKS. There's nothing better I can say about it (but plenty worse!). Wonderful concept beyond horribly executed ...

.... Executed, there's a thought ... teh hacks who put Interceptor out shuld all be executed. SLOWLY.

[leo1434]

Hello:
Yes you are right, Interceptor wasn´t a good game, first I dont´t like flight sims a lot, so to pilot a UFO spaceship is not my idea of fun. Besides when I start to play a game I like to read most of the documentation and manual first in order to take the most from it. With Interceptor I did just that, installed, read, tried some features... and I did not get traped by it. I don´t know if it was so good or so bad, a game has just to trap me as was the case with SEIV. No so with X-Com Interceptor. But the first and second X-Com games, well, I cannot count how many sleep hours I have lost because of that battles!

And now: Thank you very much to Atraikius for sharing that pictures with us. I hope to see the lobster-men race upagainst all the others in the SE Universe(specially against the valiant soldiers and crewmembers of X-Com!)

[leo1434]

Hello:

I will upload a small archive with design names for the future X-Com ships. They are taken from ships and weapons names of X-Com 1, 2, Apocalypse and Interceptor.

Look in the Data thread.

[Taz-in-Space]

Hey, just tried to load and run X-com Apocalypse on my new computer. It loaded OK, but when run it just exited the program. No error msg, just an exit back out. I'm running on a Dell 2.4Mhz machine with Windows XP. any ideas??

[Atraikius]

Hey, just tried to load and run X-com Apocalypse on my new computer. It loaded OK, but when run it just exited the program. No error msg, just an exit back out. I'm running on a Dell 2.4Mhz machine with Windows XP. any ideas??

That has happened to me every time I've tried to install it in a directory other than the default one.

[leo1434]

I don´t think X-Com Apocalypse is compatible with Win XP. Well may be the other way: Win XP is not compatible with a lot of older programs.

I had a similar problem (the program just quitting) when I tried to play X-Com 1 in a Pentium I machine. I even bought a second hand 486 to play it!

Now, I don´t know why, but I can play the three Versions of X-Com in a Pentium III 750 with Win 98 SE.

X-Cm 1 and 2 are still resident in my HD!

Have you tried to install a second op. sys. in your PC? There are a lot of programs which allows to use different OS in the same machine.

[Phule]

It is most likely an OS issue - Win 95 and 98 are secretly running on top of MS-DOS, and so programs looking for all the old DOS functionality find it (with a few exceptions). However, with XP, Microsoft may have just succeeded in eliminating DOS, and with it the possibility of backwards compatibility.