Thin Crust Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 So I just got a laptop because I'm going away for a graduate program. I looked and just happened to find the original red alert CDs in my house. I tried to install it for old times sake, but it's not working. Also, I google searched many sites for instructions but I'm not very proficient in patches/updates/cracks/hacks/whatever. Besides, I get a permission error when trying to unzip the download folder which is impossible because not only am I the user administrator, but I also tweeked with the security settings on it to allow me to to it. Here's what happens. I click on my disk drive and start it up. I click the install button and it comes up with "Unsupported 16-bit Application" "The program or feature "\??\D:\setup95\SETUP.EXE" cannot start or run due to incompatibility with 64-bit versions of Windows. Please contact the software vendor to ask if a 64-bit windows compatible version is available." Does anyone want to help me out with this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Coop Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=4911 DOSBox is your friend, and the above link is my guide to get it set up. Any questions or problems, ask here or in that thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 at least he posted in the right forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thin Crust Posted June 27, 2010 Author Share Posted June 27, 2010 You can always rely on Coop for all of your computer problems. But your thread discusses for vista and XP. Will it work on 7 as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalcyonSpirit Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 W7 is essentially Vista+. If it works on Vista and not on W7, I'd be flabbergasted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZealPath Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 Dosbox works just fine in 7, you'll be good to go once you've got it set up! God I love Dosbox, sometimes I'll launch it just to look around my classics collection and change directories for pure nostalgia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thin Crust Posted June 27, 2010 Author Share Posted June 27, 2010 Right now I'm following this google instruction, and I can't find the XP_patch that it wants me to copy. the part at 4:15 Does anyone know what it is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thin Crust Posted June 28, 2010 Author Share Posted June 28, 2010 Got the game working. Took long enough. The colors in the main menu and the FMV's are terrible but ingame it's passable. It's really something to see how far graphics have improved since then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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