Command and Conquer Red Alert will not run in XP.. however, were you to
purchase Red Alert 2, a graphically superior game, encompassing way more
strategy, you would have no problems at all..

I am still looking to find somebody who has Win 95 and a desire to play
antiquated strategy games..

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User


"knightman5g" <knightman5g@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> The game is Command and Conquer, Red Alert. After running the
> compatibility
> wizard, I was able to install it, but then when I tried to run it, I got
> the
> following message: " The procedure entry point SMapLS_IP_EBP_12 could not
> be
> located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll" Does this mean that
> maybe
> it is one of the games that makes direct calls to system hardware?
>
> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
>
>> knightman5g wrote:
>>
>> > Is there any way, aside from running two OS, to run this game?
>>
>>
>> What game? It depends entrely on which it is.
>>
>> Some older games will run under Windows XP without doing anything
>> special,
>> some will run if only you run them in compatility mode, others won't run
>> at
>> all.
>>
>> If the game tries to access the hardware directly (as many older games
>> did)
>> it won't run at all under Windows XP.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
>> Please reply to the newsgroup
>>
>>
>>