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[Eagle of Fire]

I have purchased the CD version of Xcom Apocalypse some years ago and always wanted to be able to see the cinematics since the only working version I ever found was a cracked version on the net. However I never been able to run that CD version ever. I tryied it in plain XP (the aforementioned cracked version worked in plain XP before) but the game lags to no end just like if I would use an undercycled DOSBox. I tryied to play thru DOSBox 0.63 and 0.61 and found that it seems to run fine with 6000 cycle on my computer... However I'm only able to see the intro movie and even then it is garbled. There seems to be a problem with the movie "cleaning" the screen as there is graphics which stay drawn until another graphic move over it. Also it seemed to me that the movie was skipping way too much frames and sometime simply froze for small amount of time even tough the music and sound kept playing normally.

In any ways I never been able to pass the intro movie. The game just hang up and dump me back to the command prompt.

I tryied installing directly from DOSBox 0.63 by mounting my D cdrom with the most basic cdrom mounting command (mount d d:\ -t cdrom) since I don't really understand the most advanced options in the readme.txt of DOSBox.

When I installed the game I ran thru 2 errors: first the game seemed stuborn enough to keep telling me my CDrom was not fast enough for the game. This is of course a lie but may be because the game have trouble to find my CDrom. The second error was that I needed 200megs to install the "optimal" setting but the game again was stuborn enough to tell me that there was only 105 megs available on c:\ even tough I have about 6 gigs free. I then did the "normal" install of 60 megs. I could install the game fine even with the CDrom error.

Is there someone who can help me figure this out? I have no idea of what I could do to make this game work either under Windows or DOSBox.