Font problem with Civ II Gold in Classic (Mac OS X 10.3.3)

[Agathon]

Try looking for the font that Civ II uses and then looking in the various places OS X keeps fonts to see whether you actually have a copy of the font. If you don't get one and place it in the folder (you might have to enable root access for some folders).

[Insane]

Originally posted by clueless
Here's a screencap:

Hmm, very odd. Yes, it looks like maybe you don't have the appropriate fonts installed in your OS 9 system, and the system is attempting to do what it can to compensate.

Or maybe your default font (and or sizes) are set oddly... sorry been a long time since I've been in the OS 9 control panels... Appearance probably?

[FlameFlash]

Clueless...

I use Gadget personally in Classic... it was the system font I chose and when I went to X.2 and later X.3 I still see evidence of that setting in anything Classic I run.

You just need to change the system font to whatever you want it to be in Appearance (I think). If you upgraded to X.3 on an older comp, boot into 9 and change it that way (easier). Otherwise it's very strange that it even has occured and you should follow what Agathon has been saying about it.

[-Jrabbit]

Just tried to install OS9 in a G4 Cube and it doesn't take.
The "Classic" environment requires 9.1 or later.

[blackgryffin]

if nothing of agathon and flameflash works, ask your friend who have the ibook to make a copy on a CD of his classic folder ...

then, drag handly from that CD the classic folder and put it in your main HD
( it must be with your X Applicatons folder, Library and so on )

open in X your System Preferences, click on Classic and choose the OS9 system folder you just put in before ---> this says to X what classic folder is the good one ...

then : rebuild the desktop of your classic environnment ( still in X System Preferences )

restart your computer and go to apple.com ... search for the last update ( it should be the 10.3.4 ) and update your computer, even you have already 10.3.4 installed on your g4 cube

reinstall your civ2 or throw in the trash the prefs of your civ2
( yourHD>Classic system folder>preferences )

open your civ2 application and tell me if it works now please