austin_taycious
Chieftain
Hi,
I just bought Civ III-GOTYE for Mac and not having played the game since my PC days, was absolutely elated to receive my X'mas goodie.
Sadly, I was unable to install the game onto my Powerbook G4 as the CD-ROM would encounter numerous problems ranging from a very slow mounting to desktop as well as abrupt installation termination midway due to some inaccessible files (mostly media related content like mp3's or movies), error msg: "I/O error- Bad Media?".
Even tried installaing the scaled down version (minus the movies) and that worked for very briefly (in so far as the settler appearing on a virgin map) and then unceremoniously froze while trying to access something from CD again.
Just to be sure it wasn't my Drive, I plugged in numerous CD's into my PB and that worked just fine. Moreover, when I tried running this problematic CD on my friend's machines (ranging from PC's to Mac's), all we got were either blank screens or perpetual drive accesses.
I am now waiting for InsideMacGames to respond to my query- awfully disappointed that after a long eager wait, all I got was this crummy CD...
I just bought Civ III-GOTYE for Mac and not having played the game since my PC days, was absolutely elated to receive my X'mas goodie.
Sadly, I was unable to install the game onto my Powerbook G4 as the CD-ROM would encounter numerous problems ranging from a very slow mounting to desktop as well as abrupt installation termination midway due to some inaccessible files (mostly media related content like mp3's or movies), error msg: "I/O error- Bad Media?".
Even tried installaing the scaled down version (minus the movies) and that worked for very briefly (in so far as the settler appearing on a virgin map) and then unceremoniously froze while trying to access something from CD again.
Just to be sure it wasn't my Drive, I plugged in numerous CD's into my PB and that worked just fine. Moreover, when I tried running this problematic CD on my friend's machines (ranging from PC's to Mac's), all we got were either blank screens or perpetual drive accesses.
I am now waiting for InsideMacGames to respond to my query- awfully disappointed that after a long eager wait, all I got was this crummy CD...
