First post, by Unregistered
I've just downloaded all the updates for VDMS, plus the LaunchPad and its updates. My problem is this:
I used to own and play X-Com Apocalypse on my old Win95 machine. It played fine, as it should, until the disc was broken in an unfortunate dog-related accident.
Many years have passed, and I now run an WinXP machine, and I want to be able to play the game again. However, this time, since I don't have the disc, I had to download a copied version, and it uses several CD-emulation programs to simulate the CD-ROM. The game runs fine without VDMS, but it has no sound. I want sound! 😀 So I turn to my trusty VDMS, but alas, when I try to run the game, it says it cannot read drive E: (which it assumes is the CD-ROM drive that the game needs to run from -- but there IS no CD! That's the kicker!) My question is, how do I get the game to run, with sound, using VDMS? Is there a way to make it run each program individually to emulate the phantom CD-ROM drive? There is a batch file that is supposed to run each program individually, and here are the commands found within:
@echo off
xcom3_cd.com
fakecd . /L:E >nul
cd xcom3
xcomapoc.exe skip
cd..
fakecd /U >nul
xcom3_cd.com
I tried adjusting the compatibility of each of these files with the LaunchPad, but it doesn't work. Is what I'm trying to do even possible?
