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[skye]

I don't really understand your download page - you've got versions for operating systems that nobody's used for years and years, and no mention of anything more modern! I use Windows XP, and can't figure out which file to download because I don't understand the technical jargon. I don't know what binaries and sources are or what compiling is, and your download page is very unclear on what I have to do to install this game. It just has a bunch of titles that don't mean anything to me.

Since I have XP, I downloaded the file that said it was a .zip file, since I at least have WinZip and know what it is, but when I extracted it, I couldn't find a readme file or a file to open to set it up! It's just full of file types my computer doesn't recognise (except one icon file).

Can you please help me?

Also,

1. Can you please put a readme file in the download files that explains how to install the game?

2. Could you put on your webpage info about what all the jargon means and what file to use for non Win32 (I'm not even sure what Win32 is... was that the one after Windows 3.1?) or DOS systems? I mean, I don't know anybody who actually uses those anymore, so I'm really confused.

3. Which file in the zip file is the one that installs the game, if any?

4. Which file should I download to run this on Windows XP?


Please help me - I feel like I need a university degree in computer science to understand this at the moment! All I want to know is how to install this...

[skye]

By the way, I've just noticed there are several other posts on this forum asking about the same or similar things to me, so it's obviously an issue a lot of people have with this game. We're not all computer geeks, you know - I'd be really, really grateful if you could make your website more user-friendly for people who aren't familiar with all the technical terms. And especially if you could put a readme file in that's in layman's language... that's what I always look for if I'm having problems, and you don't have one with this game. Please make Ivan more user-friendly!

[Z]

Since you have looked at the other posts in this forum, you should have already noticed that, but this forum is dead. Go to http://www.attnam.com/

And Win 32 means any version of Windows since NT / 95, you probably should choose that. (It means "32 bit Windows", the newest versions are actually 64 bit but it does not matter as 32 bits are enough)
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