1.2 What's the difference between X-COM and UFO:Enemy Unknown?
Nothing. UFO:Enemy Unkonwn is the European version of X-COM.
Both were developed by Mythos Games, based in England, which is
headed by Julian (Laser Squad) Gallop. The game was picked up by
Microprose U.K. and imported to the US.

MicroProse US changed the name because subLOGIC (the original
Flight Simulator people, now R.I.P.) had a game called UFO. That
one uses actual physics for its flight model (huh?!), and include
this dumb little game where you gather fuel so your mother ship
can leave Earth. It can use any scenery disks that you got for
FS, and was never very popular any way. There is also a CD-ROM
"multimedia" program called UFO that collects all those UFO
pictures, interviews, and so on a while back.

1.3 What type of PC do I need to run it? How about a demo?
Requirements listed on XCOM is as follows: 386/486 (higher?), 4
MB RAM, VGA, Mouse, MS-DOS 5.0 or higher. It may run with two
megs though (at least one person reported doing so).

It comes on 3 3.5" HD disks, and needs about 12Mb of hard disk to
install. (24 MB if using Stacker or DoubleSpace) There is a CD
version which needs less hard drive space. The game requires 560K
conventional memory and at least 1 meg of XMS. The technical
supplement does *not* guarantee that the game will work with
Windows, DR DOS, Novell DOS7 or OS/2. The game uses 32-bit
protected mode so it may run under Windows.

There's a playable demo available at most FTP sites. It could be
named UFODEMO or XCOMDEMO. (The copy at ftp.std.com had been
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