I have the origins Microsoft Close combat and really enjoyed the game. Haven't played it in years and found it recently. Can't get it to run properly right now. Suggestions?

I don't know, but I do have the game and so in for helpful technical support...

Is it on Good Old Games?  I can't check from here...

I've loved this game series since it first randomly appeared as a disk in a copy of the marine corps gazette, and I've gone to great lengths to keep playing it over the years, mainly against my cousin in lengthy campaigns. It truly is a unique and satisfying game.

So, if its the first close combat save yourself some headache and put it back on the shelf. Don't worry though. There have been damn near a dozen sequels and re-releases that are updated for modern machines and networking, and are generally improved in every way. The game play mechanics remain faithful in all of them!

My particular favorites are the newer iterations based off of CC5 and CC3, and then the vietnam and okinawa user created mods for each, respectively. There's a whole slew of mods for both that are simple to install though. Check out closecombatseries.net for tech forums and any other info you may want on the series.

Have you tried men of war assault squad/ assault squad 2? If you like close combat youll like men of war

Installing Close Combat on Windows XP

Mike

If its DOS based, you could use Dosbox.  Install and just drag-n-drop the executable over the Dosbox icon.