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Old June 27th 05, 06:05 AM
Rudeboy
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Default TOCA Championship Racing - Windows XP

I just got the original TOCA Championship Racing. Yes the ORIGINAL Toca
circa 1998.
Got it for close to nothing. I got for collecting/nostalgia reasons but
wanted to take it for a spin. But I can't load it.
It says "Can't install to a Win32 or NT machine." I'm running XP Home which
obviously didn't exist when the game was written.
Is there a work around for this besides a dual boot with 98SE?
Did Codemaster ever issue a patch?
Any resources still out there?

Thanks
Rudeboy


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Old June 27th 05, 04:57 PM
straiton
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Now you've got me interested.I might have to fire this game up again.
Try here http://ntcompatible.com/cdetail9664.html
looks like some regediting required
That site is usually quite helpful getting older games to run under WinXP or
NT
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"Rudeboy" > wrote in message
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>I just got the original TOCA Championship Racing. Yes the ORIGINAL Toca
> circa 1998.
> Got it for close to nothing. I got for collecting/nostalgia reasons but
> wanted to take it for a spin. But I can't load it.
> It says "Can't install to a Win32 or NT machine." I'm running XP Home
> which
> obviously didn't exist when the game was written.
> Is there a work around for this besides a dual boot with 98SE?
> Did Codemaster ever issue a patch?
> Any resources still out there?
>
> Thanks
> Rudeboy
>
>



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Old June 27th 05, 05:18 PM
straiton
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Just tried to get it going, following those instructions above,no go.
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Steve H
"straiton" > wrote in message
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> Now you've got me interested.I might have to fire this game up again.
> Try here http://ntcompatible.com/cdetail9664.html
> looks like some regediting required
> That site is usually quite helpful getting older games to run under WinXP
> or NT
> --
>
> Steve H
> "Rudeboy" > wrote in message
> news:1OLve.103144$El.92787@pd7tw1no...
>>I just got the original TOCA Championship Racing. Yes the ORIGINAL Toca
>> circa 1998.
>> Got it for close to nothing. I got for collecting/nostalgia reasons but
>> wanted to take it for a spin. But I can't load it.
>> It says "Can't install to a Win32 or NT machine." I'm running XP Home
>> which
>> obviously didn't exist when the game was written.
>> Is there a work around for this besides a dual boot with 98SE?
>> Did Codemaster ever issue a patch?
>> Any resources still out there?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Rudeboy
>>
>>

>
>



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Old June 27th 05, 05:22 PM
straiton
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also
from another site www.vogons.zetafleet.com
ToCA Touring Car Championship
-----------------------------

Another game that hates to be installed on WindowsXP. If it defeats you,
install it on another PC then copy the game folder across. You'll also need
to export the following Registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Codemasters\Touring Car

NOTE: before installing this key on your new PC, edit it in Notepad to
insert the correct CD_Drive (CD-ROM letter), GameDirectory (where the toca
folder in on the hard drive) and Install_Drive (CD-ROM letter again). Then
you can double-click it to install the values!

The game needs compatibility setting too (to Win95/98 to work correctly.)
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Old June 28th 05, 06:06 AM
Dale Green
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"Rudeboy" > wrote in message
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>I just got the original TOCA Championship Racing. Yes the ORIGINAL Toca
> circa 1998.
> Got it for close to nothing. I got for collecting/nostalgia reasons but
> wanted to take it for a spin. But I can't load it.
> It says "Can't install to a Win32 or NT machine." I'm running XP Home
> which
> obviously didn't exist when the game was written.
> Is there a work around for this besides a dual boot with 98SE?


Been there, done that. You'll have to dual-boot. I tried to get it
running... eventually I did but video performance was terrible because the
game expects direct video access and it won't get it in a NT environment.

D.


 




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