Scenario Editor vs Text Editing

[Henrik]

Not supposed to discuss such things here, polly is stricter about these things than civfan. And in any event I don't know, I'm a mac user, and thus know little about the obtaining of PC programs.

[fairline]

I assumed that the patch at CivFan was legal because MGE is no longer available to buy and, like Kobra, I have kosher versions of vanilla civ and FW..... OK anyone know where I can buy a legal copy of MGE from?

[Eivind IV]

I found it! :b Hurray! ...on *cough* Kazaa *cough*

[Mercator]

I assumed that the patch at CivFan was legal because MGE is no longer available to buy and, like Kobra, I have kosher versions of vanilla civ and FW.....

Abandonware is equally illegal, and having an earlier version is no excuse unless they had made multiplayer available in a free patch.

You should be able to find it on eBay at least... And there are various links among the banners and buttons on Apolyton where you can get it (and when perusing those, you'll also support Apolyton).

Kobra, may you gently roast in civ2 hell.

[Eivind IV]

Originally posted by Mercator

Kobra, may you gently roast in civ2 hell.

I'm already here, baby And I'm not alone...

[St Leo]

I've been using text-editors since the days of 2.42 and the propensity of the FW editors for data loss did not entice me to switch over to them at all.

Oh, and I also am using the infamous patch. I am not buying MGE just for PBEM. Besides, Microprose sent me two free copies of ToT. Surely, they actually meant to send one ToT and one MGE.:P

BTW, it's the FW install program that causes the problems on XP. You can install the game on a different computer, record the directory onto a CDR, and then copy it onto the harddrive of your XP computer (and later removing the readonly bit in the Properties dialogue).

[Eivind IV]

I manage to install the game alright, but when I am to install the Wing program/driver that follows with the CD it says stop...I only use MGE anyways, so it doesn't matter

[fairline]

That's weird - I installed vanilla civ2 and the FW expansion disk without any problems on my winXP computer

@mercator: the only copy of mge I found on eBay was being sold by a company that requires AmEx-only payment, and a cursory perusal of both the Poly ads and a google search revealed nothing.

[Mercator]

How about these?

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&from=R7&ebaytag1=ebayreg&query=civilization+multiplayer&query2=civilization+multiplayer&search_option=1&category0=&minPrice=&maxPrice=&ebaytag1code=0&st=&SortProperty=MetaEndSort

or this one...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3033291420&category=11053

[Cifer Almasy]

Re: Ooops!

Originally posted by Exile
Correction and retraction;

I take back what I said about the terrain editor. You must "save as scenario" to save changes there too.

I dont have to! I can make changes per editor and save it as a normal savefile. Or did I misunderstand you now?