Just reloaded A&A : Need a new CD start up key

Targetfixation,

––Welcome to the forum. You’ll find many gamers here,….and many of them not only offer good advice and friendship,…but go the extra distance by making gaming aids, maps, sharts, etc. for the rest of us.

“Tall Paul”

@harry_beast:

I have a 98edition A&A-won’t run on my P4with WinXP-runs on my old P3with Me2000.It also doesn’t seem to have the capability to auto join multiplayer games.
  I would assume a newer game would be in order!
  So–---------What all do I need to play on-line?(real-time )

http://triplea.sourceforge.net/mywiki

I run XP and have no issues with A&A at all. I would suggest a couple of things:

1. Make sure you cdrom drive you play the game from is on DMA mode and not PIO mode.

2. Upgrade to the latest Direct X package.

3. Make sure you are using the most current drivers for your video card.

Those are all standard answers I know but you just can’t be too sure. Does this do this in any other games or programs or just A&A?

I think the easiest place is E-Bay. There is usualy a copy for sale there.

Which one should I buy and what is the difference in the 2? Is Iron Blitz a release to fix bugs and be a better game, or is it just and expansion to include ‘marines’ & ‘destroyers’ etc.?

Appearantly you can’t buy Iron Blitz anymore, but you can still get the original A&A just about anywhere fairly cheap.

Thats to bad I live in near Pensicola, Florida. It gets to hot here to play in the summer. :( So the winter is my only time to play it suks.

Yes the rules are pretty easy to comprehend. I suggest you try reading them and learning from the examples shown there…

There is also a bug called “unit lock” some times when the game gets a high number of units on the board it freezes. You best bet, like TG said is to get the patch then save often.