Installing Red Alert 1 without the disc

Hey

I have legally downloaded the disc contents of the two Red Alert 1
discs from EA's homepage. It was a of their campaign when Red Alert 3
came out.

The problem is now that when I try to install Red Alert 1 on my
XP-computer it doesn't want to install the game from the folder, it
wants to load it off the disc. Is there any way I can get around this to
install the game without the disc? Will it work if I burn a cd-rom with
the content of the folder?

Thanks for your help!

mrkipp

PS. I have steps the neccessary steps when it comes to compability
issue.


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Hi Joe,

thank you for your reply.

I did follow the instructions that came with the download files and
they worked for their part. The problem, however, was that when I tried
to run the install.exe it kept saying that I needed to put in the Red
Alert (RA) disc which I of course lost years ago and didnt have since I
downloaded the game.

I found the answer to all my RA problems on another forum in an answer
for another but similar question. The person behind the answer suggested
the use of the program Daemon Tools which is a 'virtual disc' program. I
hadn't tried using a program like that before but it was very easy;

I made two 'images' of the two RA discs (Allied and Soviet) I had
downloaded, and then I ran one of the images.

From there on the installation went smoothly and I have now enjoyed my
first RA1 game in the past 10 years or so.

I hope this information can be helpful to others.

mrKipp

PS. Joe, I'm sad to hear that your game keeps crashing. I hope you can
solve the problem, and I hope that my game can stay crash-free as it has
so far.





Update: this is a link to the thread that helped me:
http://www.opentechsupport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=36575


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