Installing the Games

[Unregistered]

Hello all. First off I'd like to thank the people that maintain this site, stumbled upon it a few days ago, and Wing Commander I think is one of the greatest games ever made.

Now that I've managed to dig up the game, how do I install/ make it work in Windows XP?

I've got them zipped, when I unzip it, and run install it only gives me the disk (floppy drives) options. WHat should I do? Save the information to floppy or is there another way to proceed with the install?

After the install for the games, I can use a DOS Emulator to run the games fine right? Anything else I should know?

Thanks in advance, cheers to the Wing Commander fans!

A fan thats anxious to play again.

 

[cff]

1st Step: BUY the games. They'll come in a nifty format that is actually installable...

 

[Unregistered]

I already used to own the games, sir, I bought all of them before you were even born probably, up to Prophecy Gold. Thanks.

 

[THE_WUQKED]

After the install for the games, I can use a DOS Emulator to run the games fine right? Anything else I should know?

You can also use it to install it. Just mount the drive with all the setup files as A:
That is what I had to do for my Armada Floppy version, wouldn't install otherwise.
@cff: Floppys use to die after using them too much or when getting old, so backing them up in a zip or so, is a quite good idea. I myself made a cd backup of my armada floppy version. - on the other hand, I first got "unregistered"'s text in the same way you did.

 

[cff]

Well my floppies still work. That aside you could simply copy them back to working disks, couldn't you? Unless of course it is a warezed copy and you don't know which goes to which disk.

@ Unregistered - I probably PROGRAMMED games before you knew what a PC is at all.

 

[ChrisReid]

I already used to own the games, sir, I bought all of them before you were even born probably, up to Prophecy Gold. Thanks.

Of all people to use that line on.. By the time Prophecy Gold came out, cff had a computer science degree. He's one of the older posters on the forums.

 

[THE_WUQKED]

Well my floppies still work. That aside you could simply copy them back to working disks, couldn't you?

Yes, that's right. But those "working" floppies could die as well Anyway, I use my Armada-CD to install the game instead of the floppys and keep the floppys in the box, so they do not die slowly - like my boot floppy for my DOS PC did 3 times already (Well, data got corrupted, a reformat and creating it again just did the trick. But guess that's maybe cause those floppies I have, have been used years already. Or wait - it might also be the case, that they died cause of lying too close to my old CRT monitor. Ups
And I guess it also depends on how often you use them - some do not trust floppies at all anymore And I personally prefer one CD over five floppies or so which also take much longer to install. Yes, I know, I could have bought the CD version, but hey, it has no copy protection and it's just a private backup. At least here in Germany that is still legal (and like I already said above, it won't install in Dosbox when on floppies)
Wait a second. I guess I'm getting way too offtopic, so I'll quit now.