I just got an original shrink wrapped box with H2 on optical disk, probably CD. It runs only on DOS, so I drug out an old Compaq biz PC, blew the dust off, said a short prayer and fired it up. It's alive! But, running XP, so I installed Windows ME which has a working Virutal DOS mode, and after a bit of tweaking the game runes, but it needs patches, badly.

There is the Admiral's Edition update at https://harpoonpages.com/harpoon2.htm which iirc is the last patch for H2.

I downloaded the FAQ, but I cannot get the very large (lol) 3.5 mb zip file to download or even open a tab.

H2update.zip(Admirals Edition Update) FAQ Here are the directions from Tom Wenck on how to correctly update Harpoon II. If you follow the directions 360 gives the update will not work correctly and may cause your game to crash. Follow the directions below and you will get a correct update when you are finished. Here is the info on using H2UPDATE.ZIP: As promised, here is a summary of the various contortions you must endure to receive all updates that can be squeezed from the H2UPDATE. Note that the game must be installed to the hard drive to run the patch. 1. Throw out the instructions in both H2UPDATE.TXT and README.TXT. They are wrong, incomplete, and harmfull. 2. Unzip H2UPDATE.ZIP into your Harpoon2 directory using the pkunzip -d parameter: pkunzip -d h2update.zip (In Winzip check the "Use Folder Names" box) 3. At the DOS prompt, from the Harpoon2 directory, type: update dbupdate\ After a whole lot of patching and a whole lot of reports that are confusing and conflicting, you have received updated versions of: harpoon2.exe the database in the DBUPDATE directory GC1 Battleset GC2 Battleset GC3 Battleset 4. To update the Scenario Editor type: patch seupdate 5. To update the Cold War Battleset type: patch scencwar 6. To update the WestPac Battleset type: patch -ignoremissing annexwp patch scenwpac 7. Delete the patch files: .rtd .rtp update.exe dbupdate.exe readme.txt patch.exe h2update.bat Notes: The DATABASE directory contains a patched database with no new platforms The DBUPDATE directory contains a patched database with many new platforms The WestPac scenario Yellow Sea fails to update The GC3 scenario Nordic.scn fails to update If you want to use the Common Database compiled by the users of this group, unzip it at this point and copy the resulting files into the database subdirectory of harpoon2. Tom Wenck <twenck@erols.com Frederick, MD

Also the email link is no good, so maybe Tom has a different email address? Somebody is presumable keeping the website going...

For the patch, use https://www.harpoonpages.com/ftp/harpoon2/h2update.zip . I inherited the HarpoonPages.com site from Dr. Who and long since lost track of the dreamweaver install that I used to maintain the site. One of these days I'll have an LLM helper re-write the site with me, hopefully without losing the 1990s vibe.

I tried to use that link but when I clicked on it I got nothing no download no new tab just nothing happened seemed to me like it might be a dead link

hmm, it is not a dead link. using http your browser probably blocks but the https link works fine here in Edge.

I'm using a chromium browser, I'll try edge. If it doesn't work is there any chance you could stick the file somewhere in harpgamer?