SMAC on netbook problem

[Scooby_Doo]

Hello,

I've recently bought a netbook and have installed SMAC and Alien Crossfire onto it, I bought a copy of the games on the budget Sold Out label. The main reason I bought the game was because I believed that the XP patch removed the requirement to have the CD in the drive (I don't even have a CD drive). However, despite installing the patch an error message pops up requesting the CD. Is this how it should be or have I done something wrong?

Thanks.

[Scooby_Doo]

Sorry to double post but I've discovered that I can run SMAC itself directly from the terran.exe file but I get a warning that some game features might not work (what features are they and can this be solved?).

However, I still can't run the Alien Crossfire expansion.

[gwillybj]

iirc, the features would be some sounds and the SP videos, but that would depend on if you could do a complete installation that puts those files on your HD.
I'm surprised you can't run Crossfire. Have you tried running terranx.exe directly as you did terran.exe?

[Nims]

The XP Patch doesn't remove the cd check for Crossfire. There is an obvious way out of this problem but I think discussion of that kind is frowned upon here.