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I’m not sure if my midi was working. And ‘Electronic Registration’ was a fax machine.<\/p>\n
I do wish I had gotten a screenshot warning me that the “Full” install was “105 MegaBytes”. Wooo, considering my drive has around 384 GigaBytes free, I wasn’t too concerned. Besides, FF takes up around 9 GB and my FRAPS folder is another 5 GB.<\/p>\n
The game does not currently play. It crashes as it tries to start the actual game – although the opening CSs play fine in their 640×480 glory. I also cannot get screenshots of the game, FRAPS apparently does not realize it is playing a game.<\/p>\n
Oh well, it was worth it just to see if I could make the game run. I have not given up yet, but I believe it will take something a little more exotic than I had originally planned. Now if I can find my copy of Win95 and Virtual PC, I might be able to make this work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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