run bi2.bat using vdmsound 2.1 and .... it works!  quite well.
always liked the midi in this game.

What is the best first-person strategy game right now?  (RTS or turn-
based).
The last two strategy games that I really liked were SMAC and Rise of
Nations.  I repeatedly tried to like Civ III but, in the end,

Hey All: I was on Gamespot.com & D/L a new demo called Knights of
Honor. It's a pretty cool little game. Takes place in semi mid-evil
times & you create cities & outposts. Lot's of trading, some
micro-managment. The demo only let's you play Scotland & another

I think we need such games, because the sandniggers will annoy us
until we have to nuke the sandnigger hive called Mecca...

When I try to play the "battle" in Rome Total War....the progress bar
goes till the end and then a high-pitched sound comes...and the PC
hangs.
I have just installed a new Video Card FX6600GT with the latest

Any tips on how ?
TIA

Maybe I'm dense (I'm color blind to certain colors actually), but how do you
use spies and generals?  And what are those color codes on top of these
guys?  Each time I select a newly created one and use, I'm told I don't have
'craft'.  Huh?  They're newly created and haven't been ...

  My game always hang in the middle of it and I've played it a number of
times.  Is there a way to get past it?  Thanks very much for any info.  (I
have the 1.2 patch)
                                                                      Zee...

Does RA2 run on XP? I just found my old CD nd installed it.. but the
game starts and my laptop hangs.( 2 GHz, 256 MB RAM, 64 MB Intel card,
Acer laptop)

Hey all, I just recently got a copy of SE4 after hearing so much about it
here. Although the game shows its age and low budget in many ways, it's
still very playable and even after 2 days I am still on game 1.
I've found the game to be mostly intuitive despite its complexity, but ...

Hey all,
I'm relatively new to strategy games (I've only played Age of
Mythology Gold, Armies of Exigo and Spellforce) and I'm finding Age of
Empires 2 rather difficult on standard setting. Is this game harder

Bought this a few days ago - the national borders and detailed economy
seems good. However, I'm a bit mystified by the campaign - is there
really just this Risk-type game, with no storyline whatsoever?! I
defeated a barbarian tribe, then fought one of the outlying Mongol

Lurking in a Shrapnel forum I discovered a long list of still-existing
bugs (56, to be exact) in Space Empires 4 Gold, which surprised me a
great deal for a game that had be sold, patched, then sold again as
"gold", then patched again.  Now they are developing SE5 while SE4

Given the talk of compatibility issues of old classics; is there any
thought to releasing a moderately priced bundle of such classics like the
XGeneral series, MoOX,  etc that were updated to run seamlessly on modern
OS's?

And a hearty 'f.ck You' from down under.