raware1

No issues with MTG: Completly worked with XP: 1)Post #173029 As supine Junior Member said. "Download the file from torrentspy.com, where it's the 83.74 M file with the title "Magic the Gathering, Spells of the Ancients, Duel of the Planeswalkers and Manalink (All in One)". 2) Install the original three CD. Make sure to set the setup.exe windows 95 compatiable mode. Make sure to install the net 10 intranet piece, even if your not going to use the intranet. 3) Post #173028 Supine instructions for the patches downloaded from torrentspy.com worked. Make sure you install the 1.3.2 manalink no matter what, It came with the 83.74 M file downloaded from torrentspy.com. 4) Copy all program files from the patch download, over laying the original installations from the original CD's located at c:\Magic\Programs. 5) Make sure all of your *.exe files do not have the compatiablity mode on to 95. Un-click the combatibility mode for all exe's. 6) As meationed earlier in a previous posting, Make sure the display setting are around VGA mode. Me and my wife thank you, We are enjoying one of our most favorite games again. NOte: If you do not have the original CD, then you will have to continue with the steps working with Getting yourself Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit, Microsoft SQL server as meationed by others posts http://shalandar.com/installation.html#xp. Was in the process of continueing through the steps when everything worked just great.

Want to think everyone's help with MTG so far, been very helpful. I have the original CD's and plan on trying the microsoft compatiablity trick first. [Edited by raware1 on 2006-06-01 04:49:33]

Originally posted by ShadowM: Quote: I'd been hoping to find a solution to play this game in XP for what seems like forever, then I stumbled across this answer in another forum, "If you're finding it impossible to find a copy of MTG, SotA, and DotP, I would note that the Home of the Underdogs has them, and would suggest going to http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=1550 - you can download MTG from there, and it comes with SotA and DotP already integrated. Simple instructions for getting it installed and working: Extract that somewhere, run 'setup.bat', wait for it to finish, then move it all to c:\magic\Program, double-click magic.reg to make sure it gets into the registry (setup.bat tries to do it but might not succeed or something), then download the unofficial 1.3.2 manalink patch (from the link on that page), and install that (It expects MTG to be in c:\magic\Program). After that's all done, you can move it where-ever you want, and just run magic.exe to run it." This worked a treat and even solves the CPU speed issues. This game still rocks! Important tips are: 1.After doing ALL the above run the game exe's in Windows2000 compatablity mode 2.Use Y/N to buy cards in town 3.If when switching between areas you find yourself with a blank screen simply left click once and the graphics pop right up.