Gametap runs X-Com Gold, which is good. It's fine except the scroll moves too fast, even at the slowest speed in the options. Anyone know a way around that? You can't scroll the screen a little as it it right now, it just zips to the far edge.

People who thought Fallout was hard are going to crap their pants when they play this.

I have no idea how gametap works, but to get Xcom working on my pc I had to download a program off one of the abandonware sites that forced your computer to run slower. Otherwise I couldn't even scroll around the globe or fast forward without skipping huge chunks of time.

Would something similar work?

Just upgrade to Vista. That'll take care of your computer running too fast.

The slow down program I used was called rain.exe and you could adjust how many CPU cycles per second it would suck up.

Now that I'm thinking about Vista, has anyone tried running Gametap on it? I might be buying a new laptop this weekend and will probably get stuck with Vista Home Edition.

It does take awhile, I try and get started on it as soon as possible and start throwing psi-apt guys into training. Even if they can't mind control, having a team of psi-resistant guys is a definite must-have.

My roomate in college finished the final level with two avengers full of squaddies armed only with grenades.

Apparently, he liked his usual squad too much to risk them on Mars.

But I want it now! /tantrum

It rubs the lotion on its skin, or it gets the hose again.

I seriously don't remember it being that difficult to install into dosbox, and it ran perfectly when I installed it. I did it like a week before my son was born, and if I could do it then (and I am a computer retard), all of you with vastly superior computer skills shouldn't have much trouble.

The only time I ever played the game I just went nuts and sent my squads in with a classic Hail Mary, "fire on all cylinders that way" approach. It worked well too judging by the succesful missions with many alien body counts and lucrative experience gains . My little killing machines got stronger and better equipped usually after each excursion.

Then the aliens realized they could learn from my tactics.

Cows to the slaughter, man.

Anyone figure out a way to run this sucker in windowed form? It just doesn't hold up all that well running in 1920X1200.

It didn't run on Vista on release, but Gametap updated the software on Feb 15th to support Vista. On my system, at least, it now runs, but Gametap's website does note some caveats about video drivers potentially still causing other issues.

As for my experience with Gametap and Vista, so far I've noticed some choppy audio when playing old arcade games (Pac Man, Elevator Action, etc.) And when running X-Com I hear the audio at first, but I get no video at all. Just a black screen. This was the same problem I had with Fable a few weeks ago (under Vista) until I tried some beta video drivers from nvidia. Given that, I'm guessing the black screen I'm getting with X-Com relates to the video driver problems the Gamtap website mentions.
---Todd

I got all the Xcoms that ever got out . ( I think I got ufo defense twice ) . XCom gold works fine with no scroll problems (I just checked it).

I once got my base attacked on the first month of beginner dificulty. That's how I found the tactic where i hide all my people in different rooms and peek out from time to time to see where the aliens are. When I find an Alien I pick the best positioned gun to come and shoot him in the back.