"Bad" news: after a couple of years of not being able to play Empire Deluxe anymore because it barfs on XP, I tried the trick of setting the compatability for that program to Win95 (there's a setting in XP to allow you do this; right-click on the program's icon, select "Properties", and then the "Compatability" tab and you'll see it), and forced the program to run in 256 colour mode, and voila. It works like a charm (at least for the fifteen minutes or so I played it). I was sure I'd tried this before in the past and it hadn't worked... apparently I hadn't. The upshot is, yay, I get to play Empire Deluxe again! The downside is, now it's that much easier for me to flush hours and hours of my life down the toilet and accomplish nothing.
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Computer games time is never lost! it's actually intellectually stimulating if not everly productive...
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