one little problem

[Broadside]

I saved up and got myself a new desktop PC, but I can not seem to get BZII to install on it =[ does anybody know of a way to get it to work? (I tried the compatibility modes to no avail. also, my system is W7 x64)

Thank you in advance.

[GSH]

I wish I could put a post-it note with these directions on all BZ2 CD jewel cases, or get a time machine to go back in time and slap some sense into Activision so that they'd use a proper 32-bit installer. But, as the BZ2 1.3.6.2 readme file notes (freely available at http://matesfamily.org/bz2/ , viewable in RTF or PDF format), you can bypass the autorun application for the actual installer, which does work on Win7/64:

Installing Battlezone II from CD on Windows XP/Vista/7
The Battlezone II CD does not contain the best installer, as many have noticed. Especially for 64-bit versions of Windows, the setup.exe in the root folder of the BZ2 CD does NOT run, because that setup.exe is a 16-bit application. Battlezone II (the game) is a proper 32-bit application that runs on 32 or 64 bit versions of Windows. But, the CD's initial installer does not run well on modern systems. The best thing to do is to try this first:
1. Insert BZ2 CD. Do not run anything if prompted
2. In Windows, go to 'My Computer' (Windows XP), or 'Computer' (Windows 7)
3. Find the BZ2 CD entry, click on it
4. Go to the setup directory in the BZ2 CD
5. Run the setup.exe (shown simply as the application called 'setup' if you use the Windows default of hiding file extensions)

-- GSH

[Broadside]

Thank you very much GSH! I feel somewhat silly as I was messing around with the wrong setup.exe.... Thanks again for the quick and effective response.