Recent content by Androo

Both problems here. 10.5.7 on a Macbook Pro with 3 GB RAM and a GeForce 8600M GT. The white-flash problem is pretty intermittent here too.

The music on the CD was a "higher-quality" version, wasn't it? I seem to remember it being duller somehow and less interesting than the low-fi, PC speaker version. Same songs, but too smoothly done or something.

Totally agreed about the music; it may have been the best thing about the original DOS version of the game. I got the Windows version at one point, but never played it because it just wasn't the same without the original music. If I were designing this game, I'd ship it with updated, modern...

Nicely played. I would bet that American spellings are about 10x more annoying to people used to British spellings than British spellings are to us.

If it makes you feel any better, I can't believe how dirty the aluminum case of the Macbook Pro gets. Maybe my hands are just dirty, but if I don't clean it every day or two then the wrist rests look like they've been oiled down and dried out.

Thanks for the replies. Unfortunately, I cannot find one of the two CDs I need to install the game, so I may end up having to get the Mac version of the game anyway. Argh!!

Thought I'd resurrect this thread to ask a similar question. I am a longtime Windows user who's probably about to pull the plug and finally buy a Macbook Pro this week. I'm likely to get the 2.16 ghz version with 1 GB of RAM, but only 128 MB of video RAM. Am I likely to be able to run the PC...

Good idea to try disabling audio in the INI file; no change, so I think I can rule out audio as a problem. Interestingly, looking through the forum I found this problem, which looks like it's exactly like the same issue I have -- and the guy has an Nvidia card rather than an ATI. So maybe...

Before installing the most recent patch, I had a very annoying but not fatal problem: whenever I started a game, it would lock the entire system up after creating the world but before I could start playing. Leonard Nimoy would begin talking; it would give me the button to click to begin playing...

For some reason, after installing the patch now it seems to always reset the value in the INI file to whatever I just put -- i.e., I change the value in the fullscreen/windowed mode line to "ask," but it only asks once. After that, the value in the INI file is whatever I'd selected before. (So...

Just wanted to chime in that I have 1.09 patch, latest version of Blue Marble, no other mods, and the save opens fine for me. I've got another game to finish before I start this one, but I thought I'd try to open the save to see if it would work.

I have the sme problem. Locks up when loading the first turn of a game, to the point where I have to hard reboot, but then plays fine after that. Does this both before and after installing the 1.09 patch. Compaq Presario x1000 laptop ATI Mobility Radeon 9200. Pentium M 1.5 Ghz, 1 GB RAM SP2 &...

I was having no problems with the game; laptop, built-in ATI card. I had to unpack the AP0 files in order to get the thing to run, but other than that, no problem. I spent way too many nights sitting up way too late playing the game, which is just what I expect from a Civ game. But I just...

Oh man. Reading this just made me HAVE to find a way to get Colonization running again. I think the music might have been the best part of it. And yes, the music in the Windows version was awful!

Greetings all, I haven't played in a long while, I'm sorry to report, but a friend just got started with Civ so I'd like to get back into it. I recently got a new laptop so I need to install it from scratch. I've got both the original and the PTW CDs, so I figured I'd just install the...