Playing without the CD

[Nikb]

Found 'em.

You can try this link:

http://members.tripod.com/garyned/Disk_Copy.htm

Or the following are two posts on the ACWGC forum:

1. Create a temp directory if one does not already exist. For example C:\temp

2. Create a folder for each game as follows:
C:\temp\Campaign Corinth
C:\temp\Campaign Shiloh
C:\temp\Campaign Peninsula
C:\temp\Campaign Ghettysburg
C:\temp\Campaign Ozark
C:\temp\Campaign Franklin

3. Copy the files from the original CD to these directories. For example, copy cp_start and cpo from Corinth; copy cp_start and cpf from Franklin; copy cp_start and cpg from Ghettysburg; copy cp_start and cpz from Ozark; copy cp_start and cpp from Peninsula; copy cp_start and cpi from Shiloh.

cp_start is for the campaign game and the others are for individual game scenarios.

4. Once you have the directories and the files copied, copy each folder to your writable CD. When finished you should have a CD with six folders and two files in each folder.

5. If you want to include the editors, then you will need to add those files to the CD.

1. Make a new folder named C:\HPS_disk.

2. Copy each HPS and BG game folder into that folder.

3. Delete ALL sub-folders for each game.

4. Delete ALL files in the main game folder you copied over, EXCEPT any ??????. EXE file. So, for most games you will have a game folder, like Campaign Shiloh that has one to four files in it.

5. Copy all folders to a CDROM. Do not copy the folder C:\HPS_disk. Do not rename any of the game folders.

6. Play away and never have to swap disks.

All my HPS/BG games were installed using the TYPICAL install and I can play the music, have the sound effects work without problems.

Once you have this system setup, ANY new HPS game can be added the same way and ADDED to your CDROM. OR you can simply burn an entire new CDROM.

Should work OK. Boy it makes it easier/quicker to play.

Cheers

Nik