Running Civ 2 on a netbook

[Case]

Has anyone done this, and if so can you tell me how you got it to work? My Acer Aspire One netbook has more processing power than the 486 I first ran civ on (back in 1996!), but it doesn't have a CD-ROM drive so I'm not sure how I'd actually install the game (can I just copy the CD's contents onto a memory stick or something?). Alternately, I imagine that I could just download Freeciv and run it.

[Harry Tuttle]

You should be able to just copy the directory over I would think.

There might be a few registry errors if anything, but I've never experienced any.

See the "damn vista" thread for some more tips

[McMonkey]

My copies of Civ2 MGE and ToT (as well as all of my scenarios, graphics and resources etc...) are kept on a USB memory stick. I use Civ2 Unlimited to run ToT and the version of MGE I have has the no-cd crack built in. This way I can run it on any PC and any updates/changes are universal and I don't end up with confusing multiple copies of everything. I just keep a backup copy of everything on my desktop in case I lose the USB! I just copied the Civ2 and ToT folders onto the stick and they ran without any problems.

Obviously if there are Vista issues that will have to be addressed separately.

[Case]

Thanks for that. My netbook runs XP, so Vista isn't an issue.

[Grigor]

I have an Acer Aspyr too, but my big computers are all Mac. Mac dOS X does not support this game, and I haven't been able to play this game for four years. I wonder if anybody has suggestions for getting it into my Acer directly from the web.

[GhostOfDisco]

Have you tried a PC emulator? (My Mac has a PC side, which runs Civ 2 just fine. )