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America Invades - Avalon Hill (Old War Game)
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:49 pm
by Viking67
Does have America Invades and know how to make it run on an Windows XP machine?
I get the error "does not recognize CD Rom."
RE: America Invades - Avalon Hill (Old War Game)
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:37 pm
by sabre100
Excellent game, I have it however I run it in DOSBOX, dosbox is an excellent piece of software for older games. With dosbox I can run it in a "window mode" which is good as running the old dos games in full screen don't look as good as they use to.
RE: America Invades - Avalon Hill (Old War Game)
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:16 am
by Viking67
I have DOSBox but the issue I run into, is if fails to read my CD ROM in the drive.
RE: America Invades - Avalon Hill (Old War Game)
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:58 am
by Adam Parker
ORIGINAL: Viking67
I have DOSBox but the issue I run into, is if fails to read my CD ROM in the drive.
This error was a known issue with the game on release. There is a patch that addresses it - try Google - possibly found at Web Grognards.
Though the game was advertised as being Win95 compatible I was only ever able to get it running on one system - and to this day I still don't know why.
It's a great game with a very confusing supply system but I hope you can get it going!
RE: America Invades - Avalon Hill (Old War Game)
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:43 am
by BoredStiff
Patch
here. Search for "America Invades".
RE: America Invades - Avalon Hill (Old War Game)
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:23 pm
by Wild Geese
RE: America Invades - Avalon Hill (Old War Game)
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:00 pm
by sol_invictus
Those Atomic games really take me back.[&o]
RE: America Invades - Avalon Hill (Old War Game)
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:16 am
by Viking67
I have tried this before... I have the patch and running Invade in DOSBox... still does not recognize the CD when it is in the drive.
Has anyone cracked this problem?
RE: America Invades - Avalon Hill (Old War Game)
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:40 am
by Fred98
I never solved the problem.
Instead, way back in 2001, while trying to solve the problem, I discovered SSG's game The Ardennes Offensive 2 "TAO2"
This led to:
Korsun Pocket
Battles in Normandy
Battles in Italy
Battlefront
Kharkov
All these games are a zillion times better than America Invades.
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RE: America Invades - Avalon Hill (Old War Game)
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 2:41 pm
by BoredStiff
I seem to recall that while the other games in that series,
Stalingrad and I think some Market Garden game were playable, the D-Day game was eventually left with a very serious bug or two that never got fixed. I think it did have something to do with the game simply not running on some systems, but don't quote me on that, it 's a very vague recollection.
Edit: Here, I did a Google search for "
d-day america invades bug" and there are some discussions regarding problems with the game.
RE: America Invades - Avalon Hill (Old War Game)
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:35 am
by PBI
Viking, have you mounted the CD drive inside dosbox?
