I have been playing around with C&C: RA today. With a few tweaks, it installs and appears to run pretty well in DOSBox. I am attaching the config-file I use. As usual, you will have to adjust the mount points used.

Edit: 2008-09-01 - New version of the configuration file.

I downloaded and un-zipped the iso's from EA's website. Each iso came with a patch for XP in it's folder. Has anyone tried these patches yet on XP? I really won't have time to install this game until the weekend to find out myself.

olemogamer - if you look at the config file I provide, you will see that it automatically applies the 108PE patch. But I have only tested it in DOSBox, I have not tried running the game directly in Windows XP.

Don't forget to take a look at these patches:

http://nyerguds.arsaneus-design.com/cncstuff/0_files.html

Most of them are really useful.

Regards.

DosFreak wrote:

It appears to be the original version

Nope, it's the 1999 EA Classics re-release.
Oddly the re-release version has no IPX support and has troubles with XP out of the box whereas the original 1996 Virgin release has no issues in XP. I'm speaking from the Win32 executables of course.

The re-release's dos version can't seem to run under DOSBox, at least for me 🙁 I know the 1996 Virgin release did.

I still need to go through my C&C Windows games and see if I can get them working on 2000+. I still have them on my compatibility as only playable under QEMU!

leileilol - see if the config I provided above will help you. It worked for me.