UFO - Enemy Unknown under Virtual PC

I am going to move on from the Command and Conquer series. The reason for this is that I cannot get the remaining games to run under Virtual PC. Command and Conquer - Tiberian Sun - has a copy protected CD that does not seem to work inside of Virtual PC. Command and Conquer - Generals - requires 3D video support which we do not provide.

So - the next series to look at under Virtual PC is the X-COM series. This is another classic set of games. I have spent many days playing the first game in this series, X-COM: UFO - Enemy Unknown. This is an excellent combination of resource management and base building along with turn based battles. It was also very atmospheric for it's day (especially when performing a night raid on an alien mothership).

The only problem I have encountered running UFO - Enemy Unknown under Virtual PC is that my computer is too fast. The best way that I have found to deal with this is to use the 'SlowDown' tool from https://community.the-underdogs.org/pub/tools/slowdown/. I have found this tool to be much more effective than the usual 'MoSlo' utility - and it works with batch files (such as are used by UFO - Enemy Unknown). On my AMD Opteron 246 I need to run 'SLOWDOWN /P:40' in order to have the game remain playable.

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Cheers,
Ben