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I stand very much corrected then. Heh, that's what I get for being offline so much. Thanks to M4 for posting the patch link. Wallace

You have my sympathies regarding running the original C&C under XP. I tried running it under Windows 2000 Pro some time ago and encountered the same problem. After calling Westwood, I was told that since the game was originally coded for Windows 95, the game is looking for an instruction set that does not exist in 2000 or XP. In simpler terms, your game is asking for something that the OS doesn't know about and as a result, you are getting an error. Only suggestion I could offer is to probably set up a dual boot to 98 and run the game from the 98 partition. Hope this helps, Wallace

I don't believe that it is possible to get RA to go to higher than 640x480. The game is pretty old by today's standards and back when it was new, 640x480 was the best resolution available. Wallace "Blyre" Cass

Thanks, Jcurbo: Yeah, that's what the folks at Westwood said when I called and asked them about it. Hi DosFreak: Connectix Virtual PC, huh? Interesting. I'll have to look into that program. I was trying to run the evaluation version of VMWare, but that program seems to have issues. Thanks for the tip Wallace "Blyre" Cass

Hi again Jcurbo: I used that Compatibility shortcut and managed to get C&C95 installed without the version message. It installed just fine, but when I went to run it I got this message: "The procedure entry point SMapLS_IP_EBP_12 could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll." Would you or anyone else know what this message means or a way to get around it? Thanks, Wallace "Blyre" Cass

I was ready to give up on ever getting Red Alert to work under 2000 and this thing suddenly works. Thanks a bunch! Wallace "Blyre" Cass

I'm having the same problem as the others in this thread. I would very much like to know what the people who made that compatibility list did to get it to run under 2000. Wallace "Blyre" Cass