Adacc wrote:yeah I tried both of those suggestions. Neither worked. The problem is the installation is for an older system and will not install on a newer platform. I assume the only fix would be some sort of patch or modifying program.
Again, this confirmation thing is a pain in the butt!
The program has been heavily patched over the years already, due to an oversight on the part of Microprose which made the game incompatible with all windows versions after Win95.
Unfortunately, according to most of the posts on compatibility problems I've seen, Win7 seems to have more luck running the game than Vista. I use XP SP3 without problems, but for some reason others have even found problems with that.
The only suggestion I could make would be to follow
Aswan Jaguar's advise above, and install the ISO version - which is probably the most stable of the original versions of the game, and also contains all the available patches within its installer. If you can get this version to run, you will probably find the later versions - like the SCV - will simply overwrite the older ISO version, whilst retaining the patches at the same time.
If no luck with that, your final option would be to open a 'Vista Help Wanted' post in the root 'Installation and troubleshooting' folder and hopefully attract the attention of someone who's succeeded in getting the game to work on Vista.