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I was very excited to get the free software for the old colonization game but I find that my computer can't read it. Anyone else have this problem? How do I access the game?
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This is the CD from the PC Gamer issue with the original Colonization on it then or..?PolyCast Co-Host, Owner and Producer: entertaining | informing civ
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Yes---I got the free CD with the mag but it won't run at all. Any ideas about how I can access it?
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It runs fine for me...
Can you not get the DVD to work at all? (It is a DVD, at least for me, by the way... are you using a CD drive for it?)
If you can read it, but can't run the menu or whatever, navigate to \assets\data\ and run Setup Sid Meier's Colonization.exe ...<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
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Ah, PCG uses DVD for their media inserts now... shows how long it's been since I even looked at one. (
for how it shows my age... 
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You are so old you've worked for a gaming mag that went downhill half a decade or so ago.
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Which had CDs by the way.
The CD I bought the mag to get, had lots of Civ2 mods. Which wasn't there btw.
But no way I buy gaming mags anymore. I have teh awes0me interwebz.
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RIP Strategy Gamer.Originally posted by Nikolai
You are so old you've worked for a gaming mag that went downhill half a decade or so ago.
Neither do I.But no way I buy gaming mags anymore.PolyCast Co-Host, Owner and Producer: entertaining | informing civ
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I just bought a Linux magazine called Ubuntu special that comes with a DVD of the platform...
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With Wine I'd guess they do.Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.-Isaiah 41:10
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Actually, if you're talking about the DOS version, you don't need Wine, I don't believe (WINDOWS emulator). DOSbox should work under Linux directly, as far as I know.
The current stuff may or may not work cleanly - Civ4 under Wine does, I believe, Solver could clarify that.<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
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Erm....Dan??
Were you so embarrassed that you couldn't get Colonization to work, that you had to create a settler to ask the question?
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Originally posted by Asmodean
Erm....Dan??
Were you so embarrassed that you couldn't get Colonization to work, that you had to create a settler to ask the question?
I'm hopeful someone(s) will be able to assist LK (bmrgb) resolve the issue ultimately.PolyCast Co-Host, Owner and Producer: entertaining | informing civ
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I am using (or trying to) a CD drive. It seems like it starts reading and then stops. It then seems like I do not have a disc there.
Dan Q--where in Ontario?
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You can't read a DVD in a CD-reader.Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.-Isaiah 41:10
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The DOS version works just fine in Linux via DOSBox. It's how I play.
Now if only SMAC would run under ANY Windows compatibility layer software. I pirated XP (and deny it access to the Internet) for one reason alone: to play SMAC.
(BTW: Wine Is Not an Emulator)
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