"Nothin' Fancy" Sxn Game

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

On second thought...

OK, I downloaded your second save, Grigor, and it won't run on 2.42 or MGE. Or FW. Or Test of Time. The first won't run on 2.42 or MGE.

Colour me puzzled. Perhaps if Jrabbit is around he might have some suggestions - or any other Mac users? You might want to try uploading the file 'zipped' with WinZip or any other common .zip utility.


edit: typo corrected, and added zip suggestion.

[SCG]

the first two links here look promising. Might be another one out there that doesn't have MGE in its name that would be simpler?

[La Fayette]

You might also ask smash. He has A LOT of practice, both on Mac and PC (use the 'search' function to find him).

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Yes, Smash would know... Jrabbit went through the same process which is why I thought of him, but IIRC he's away this weekend.

[-Jrabbit]

AFAIK the only Mac version of Civ2 is MGE.

2.42 is convertible to MGE (Mac or PC), but once converted is not backwards compatible back to 2.42 -- again, AFAIK.

It could be that the problematic save is Mac MGE without the current patch (1.1 IIRC). Surmising only...

My basic technique is to DL the save file to my work PC, ZIP it (Win Zip), email to my home comp (iMac, OS 9.2) and unzip with a "zip for Mac" utility called ZipIt (one month trial, then $15 or 20 shareware fee -- well worth it!)

To go straight from Poly to the iMac requires the file to be zipped.

Don't know if that sheds any light...

(Oh, and don't forget that there's a Mac forum on Poly. Might be worth searching there for more info. But Smash is indeed the go2 guy for succession-on-Mac questions.)

As for this game, the Lagomorphic One is joining Hydey as a member of the lurker patrol.

[Grigor]

No, I really have Civ II Mac, not MGE. The credits say 1996. I cannot download MGE games. I also do not have any zip functions on this machine.

There is no problems accessing my saves by email at civfanatics, so perhaps I could try that.

[SCG]

Originally posted by Grigor
I also do not have any zip functions on this machine.

check out http://www.ina-support.com/patches/ for links to winzip and stuffit

[Grigor]

SGC - Sorry, I misspoke - I have various stuffit utilities. But I can't figure out how to get them to unstuff zipped game files.

Sometimes in order to successfully load a downloaded game I have to rename the file to correspond to the appropriate suffix for my machine. You might try that...

Does the Apolyton Browse function automatically compress files? I did not compress them myself.

I have also pposted in the Civ2 Mac forum. We'll see who comes around.

[SCG]

at least on the PC side, i've not seen any autocompressed files that weren't loaded already compressed. just to check, no, i can't unzip the file, even if renamed.

Originally posted by Grigor
SGC

I've been to England, even had some wine there, but I'm SCG, not one of the SGs

[Grigor]

Sorry SCG...

OK my latest idea is to save it with no extra spaces. See if this works

[SCG]

Originally posted by Grigor
OK my latest idea is to save it with no extra spaces. See if this works

well, i had already done that with a prev download (windows doesn't care how long it is), but tried again and got same error

i did try extracting JRabbit's first save in the no trade, no problem game (small enough that it probably is a zip file) and wasn't able to extract anything from it , and of course couldn't load it either...

[Scouse Gits]

I have used an editor to examine the latest of Grigor's saves - it is not a compressed file - and fails to load in 2.42 & MGE -- anyone tried ToT or CtP?

Will now backtrack and see if I can get any joy from the earlier ones...

SG[1]

[Scouse Gits]

OK - I join the general club - SCG your save is fine 2.42 -- cannot read any of Grigor's - they all appear essentially identical - ie not compressed, but not valid saves for PC 2.42 or MGE

SG[1]

Edit] to remove some gibberish I wrote as a consequence of being unable to read...

[DaveV]

So where do we stand? Should I play SCG's save, wait for SG[1] to play, or wait for Grigor's save to be straightened out? Or, perhaps, just wander off mumbling with no backwards glances?

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by Scouse Gits
I have used an editor to examine the latest of Grigor's saves - it is not a compressed file - and fails to load in 2.42 & MGE -- anyone tried ToT or CtP?
SG[1]

I tried ToT, FW... no go. Besides, Grigor'd know if it was ToT. He says it's 2.42. Me confused