XCom Apocalypse should work on Windows XP, bar the sound which you can emulate using VDMSound (wikipedia). There are other potential issues that some people get - see this page for more details.
I was driving at about 35-40mph, came around a gentle corner and found a white van across the whole road. Turned out he'd crawled out slowly, heard me coming so tried to back it up and then stalled it, instead of just sticking his foot down and getting across the road. Brick wall to the left, hedge and a steep hill to the right. I brake, I feel like I'm not stopping quickly enough so I brake a little harder and... I skid into the white van.
It's a British A road, so the limit is 60mph, although I had just came out of a 40 zone. The reality is that I probably couldn't have stopped in time because there wasn't as much visiblity as I thought, I wasn't *quite* quick enough to react, and I had no ABS. If somebody had been coming the other way at 60, they would've had marginally better visibility but I bet that accident would've been quite nasty. Fortunately no-one was hurt, no airbags went off, and the damage was limited. My bonnet was crumpled, my radiator was cracked, and the white van man lost a little of his front bumper.
Sure as hell messed up my insurance premiums though. Young male (me), no witnesses, and he had no insurance. It took well over a year to get knock for knock (i.e. pay your own expenses).
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XCom Apocalypse should work on Windows XP, bar the sound which you can emulate using VDMSound (wikipedia). There are other potential issues that some people get - see this page for more details.
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I was driving at about 35-40mph, came around a gentle corner and found a white van across the whole road. Turned out he'd crawled out slowly, heard me coming so tried to back it up and then stalled it, instead of just sticking his foot down and getting across the road. Brick wall to the left, hedge and a steep hill to the right. I brake, I feel like I'm not stopping quickly enough so I brake a little harder and... I skid into the white van.
It's a British A road, so the limit is 60mph, although I had just came out of a 40 zone. The reality is that I probably couldn't have stopped in time because there wasn't as much visiblity as I thought, I wasn't *quite* quick enough to react, and I had no ABS. If somebody had been coming the other way at 60, they would've had marginally better visibility but I bet that accident would've been quite nasty. Fortunately no-one was hurt, no airbags went off, and the damage was limited. My bonnet was crumpled, my radiator was cracked, and the white van man lost a little of his front bumper.
Sure as hell messed up my insurance premiums though. Young male (me), no witnesses, and he had no insurance. It took well over a year to get knock for knock (i.e. pay your own expenses).
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