Recent content by Gamebird

The disk image solution only worked for five or six startings of the game, so now I have the disk in the drive again. Getting it out of the drive after the game starts would be difficult, because I don't have a windowed view/can't hide Civ once the game starts. I've found an odd fix for that -...

Actually, I finally found it, in the middle of the "labels.txt" file. So now I've changed all the obnoxious lines to "Insert generic stupid comment here". That will make me happier.

Yesterday I discovered that I could change the text for various phrases and messages in Civ III (MacSoft version) by going in the Text folder. What I would really like to change, though, is a batch of text I couldn't find. It's the obnoxious, insulting taunting the foreign nations give you...

I still have all the documentation that came with the disk when I bought it. Booklet, package, whole thing. We bought it a few years ago, played it once, then stuck it back in the package and on the shelf because I didn't like it. Now that Civ II won't play, though, it's either play Civ III...

Okay, I've tried both of those options and neither works. To recap, I've tried: 1) Holding down the apple key from before clicking on the Civ III icon to when the main start screen appears. Although I get a window to pick options, the windowing option is not among them. I can set resolution...

Awesome! I'll try the suggestions in that thread. Thanks a lot!

When I play Civ II, the top of my screen is the standard Mac menu bar, with the apple at the far left and clock at the far right. When I play Civ III, the game takes up the whole screen, so I can't see the time or more importantly, how much battery power I have left. When I was playing Civ II...

In the meantime, I've found an archived thread that discusses how to make a disk image. That might be what you meant. In case talking about that is against the rules, I'll say no more. But it's working now, Yay!

I have a MacBook 10.2.2, running Sid Meier's Civilization III by Firaxis/MacSoft. How do I get the game to run without the CD in the drive? I have the CD, but I'd rather be able to run it whenever and wherever I had the laptop, instead of having to make sure I had the disk with me at the time...

Hello there. Update: I've found the installation CD for Civ II. It has inside the CD drive of my husband's new computer. I suppose that tells you how often we use CDs... Speaking of how often things happen, I'd love to get an answer or at least a response to my issue above. Maybe I should...

Long ago, we bought Civilization II. It doesn't seem to be ToT or any of those other acronyms. It's just Sid Meier's Civilization II by MacSoft, for the Macintosh. It ran fine and we were happy with it. Last spring, we took in one of my husband's computers for repair and ended up leaving the...