original civ2 scenario disk on windows 10

Does anyone know how to run the original Civ 2 scenario disk on windows 10? I have tried and never got it to work. I am talking about the original scenario disk that had ww79, age of discovery, ww2 in pacific...etc. on it.

Thanks

It doesn't. Civ2 MGE is the lowest supported (and I haven't yet tried it specifically on Windows 10, but it worked on Windows 8.1). Vanilla, CiC, and FW haven't even worked since Windows 7.

Gotcha, was really hoping that somebody knew a conversion.

You might try installing it but playing it without the disc. I know CiC can play without out the disc and I have used that to solve problems when playing on vista through win 8 on certain machines. I was wondering if there was a compatibility mode with 10 that might let you do it without the disc or you might try an installing a pc emulator and loading windows 3.x into that then running CiC.

Patine said:

It doesn't. Civ2 MGE is the lowest supported (and I haven't yet tried it specifically on Windows 10, but it worked on Windows 8.1). Vanilla, CiC, and FW haven't even worked since Windows 7.

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That's not true. The most important factor in determining whether or not one of the earlier versions of Civ2 will run on Windows is the type of architecture: 32-bit or 64-bit. Classic Civ2, Conflicts in Civilization (CiC), and Fantastic Worlds (FW) are 16-bit games and will not run on 64-bit systems. Multiplayer Gold Edition (MGE) and Test of Time (ToT) are 32-bit and can run on 64-bit systems (with the help of a 3rd-party edit control patch, eg, here and here). I had classic + FW running quite happily on a Win7 32-bit machine. If you had a 32-bit version of Win10 (yes, they do exist, mostly as 32-bit upgrades, from the sound of things), I suspect it would do the same. For 64-bit Windows and the 16-bit versions of Civ2, the solution is either virtualisation or conversion to one of the 32-bit versions; see here.