stwils
Emperor
Maybe someone here can straighten me out.
Yesterday from WalMart I brought home a Toshiba laptop (with XP, of course.) And I also bought Civ4.
Civ4 loaded just fine, and looked pretty good on this little laptop.
Then I tried loading Civ1 (for WINDOWS - not DOS. It 's on a disk from PC Gaming Mag.) Nothing happened. Couldn't launch it, couldn't even find it in "my computer" (I am new to XP.)
So then I put in Civnet. (It's Windows not DOS.) Computer said Wing.dll was missing. And then said it could not launch Civnet 95. And closed.
Since then I have researched Civ2 fanatics, and it seems it too will not load in Windows XP.
I am reading about Sid Meier's Chronicles which includes among other things Civ 1 and Civ 2. Now they say those CDs are XP compatible. (Nothing about Civnet as it is not included in the Chronicles.)
At first I thought the problem was this little Toshiba laptop. Not so. However I plan on returning it to WalMart because I think Civ4 should be run on a powerful Dell desktop.
That said, what does one do? (And please don't tell me to use DOS BOX. That would help with Civ1 DOS, but not Civ1 Win.) Will paying $65 for Sid's Chronicles be the only way I can play Civ1 again? And what about Civnet. I love that game. Nicer graphics and more music than Civ1, but really the same game (unless you use it for multiplayer.)
Looks like I might have to keep my good old Dell desktop with Windows 98se. I don't really have room for two desktop computers, but I hate not to be able to play the games I love. But it won't play Civ4 and I really need a new computer.
Any advice or any thoughts on why these earlier games won't run on XP? (I know DOS based games won't run on XP. But these are Windows games.)
Thanks for listening.
stwils
Yesterday from WalMart I brought home a Toshiba laptop (with XP, of course.) And I also bought Civ4.
Civ4 loaded just fine, and looked pretty good on this little laptop.
Then I tried loading Civ1 (for WINDOWS - not DOS. It 's on a disk from PC Gaming Mag.) Nothing happened. Couldn't launch it, couldn't even find it in "my computer" (I am new to XP.)
So then I put in Civnet. (It's Windows not DOS.) Computer said Wing.dll was missing. And then said it could not launch Civnet 95. And closed.
Since then I have researched Civ2 fanatics, and it seems it too will not load in Windows XP.
I am reading about Sid Meier's Chronicles which includes among other things Civ 1 and Civ 2. Now they say those CDs are XP compatible. (Nothing about Civnet as it is not included in the Chronicles.)
At first I thought the problem was this little Toshiba laptop. Not so. However I plan on returning it to WalMart because I think Civ4 should be run on a powerful Dell desktop.
That said, what does one do? (And please don't tell me to use DOS BOX. That would help with Civ1 DOS, but not Civ1 Win.) Will paying $65 for Sid's Chronicles be the only way I can play Civ1 again? And what about Civnet. I love that game. Nicer graphics and more music than Civ1, but really the same game (unless you use it for multiplayer.)
Looks like I might have to keep my good old Dell desktop with Windows 98se. I don't really have room for two desktop computers, but I hate not to be able to play the games I love. But it won't play Civ4 and I really need a new computer.
Any advice or any thoughts on why these earlier games won't run on XP? (I know DOS based games won't run on XP. But these are Windows games.)
Thanks for listening.
stwils
