14-09-2003 19:48									#1
	Playing MGE without the CD Suffering from ads?

Hi! I know there is the no-CD patch for MGE, but I could have sworn there was another method so you wouldn't have to use the CD. I thought it involved something like changing the directory which Civ2 looks for the CD to somewhere on your HDD and you can extract all the necessary files to that. Am I on the right track or am I imagining this?

	15-09-2003 06:20									#2
	Put an end to popups!

I haven't heard of this, but I imagine that that is what the patch does basically

	15-09-2003 17:40									#3
	Inflate your Upload Space

My method is simple -- I use a Mac!!

	15-09-2003 19:49									#4
	Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

* Ben Kenobi tosses tomato at JRabbit.

	15-09-2003 20:10									#5
	Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

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	15-09-2003 21:13									#6
	Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

Ahhhhhhhhhummmmmmm.

We're not supposed to discuss this here.
There are Other sites that deal with this issue. Hint Hint Hint.

RAH

	17-09-2003 18:40									#7
	Re: Playing MGE without the CD Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

quote: Originally posted by The ANZAC Hi! I know there is the no-CD patch for MGE, but I could have sworn there was another method so you wouldn't have to use the CD. I thought it involved something like changing the directory which Civ2 looks for the CD to somewhere on your HDD and you can extract all the necessary files to that. Am I on the right track or am I imagining this?

What you are probably thingking of is a CD emulator, it will let you store cd info on your HDD like that, there ARE other ways but they are

Besides why not just use the patch, its simple.

	18-09-2003 02:36									#8
	Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations: Deluxe Edition

Yeah, I guess I could use the patch, but I have the CD and it is just a pain to slip it into the drive everytime I want to start up Civ2.

I could have sworn by editing some file, you could redirect which directory it looks in for the CD....

	18-09-2003 13:44									#9
	Increase the size of your Attachments

Just how dedicated are you to Civ 2 if you can't even be bothered to insert the CD?

	18-09-2003 15:45									#10
	Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

Maybe he wants the extra time that it would take to put the CD in used to play the game longer.

Of course, I don't have MGE, so I wouldn't know anything about this topic. (And don't tell me about the patch--I already know about it )

	18-09-2003 18:48									#11
	Tired of ads?

quote: Originally posted by The ANZAC Yeah, I guess I could use the patch, but I have the CD and it is just a pain to slip it into the drive everytime I want to start up Civ2.

Do what I did; install another CD-ROM drive.

	18-09-2003 20:35									#12
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

If you have a daughter that uses your machine, it may take awhile to find where she put the disc when she took it out.

	18-09-2003 21:13									#13
	Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

Use the no CD patch and then just copy the kings and video folders to your civ 2 directory, then you will not need the cd for anything.

	19-09-2003 07:01									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Zedd Use the no CD patch and then just copy the kings and video folders to your civ 2 directory, then you will not need the cd for anything.

Except the music, unless you ripped it to .mp3 or some such. Though personally I would much prefer Megadeth or Enya in the background.

	19-09-2003 13:42									#15
	Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

Is that a reflection of your personal taste Cedric, or just a reflection of how bloody awful the Civ 2 music is?

I always play a stripped-down version, with the diplomacy reduced to a window rather than the entire screen and everything else turned off. I venture that my musical tatse is far superior to the lutes and whatever that make up the Civ 2 music, and I could teach the Council a thing or two about how to play the game.

	19-09-2003 17:26									#16
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All useless extras.
And the music started to drive me crazy. (until I turned it off)

	19-09-2003 18:27									#17
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Yeah. The day I shut down the music, Civ became much more enjoyable.

Soon after, I reached that point with the advisors, too...

	19-09-2003 18:52									#18
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

quote: Originally posted by -Jrabbit Yeah. The day I shut down the music, Civ became much more enjoyable. Soon after, I reached that point with the advisors, too...

I'm rediscovering the music - my last PC made awful sounds when I tried to enable the in-game music, so it was turned off for a while.

The ToT music is actually pretty spooky

	19-09-2003 19:18									#19
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

Yes, the music is akin to nails scratching a chalk board. and the "animated heralds" were amusing for a while, but now just annoying. the throne room too is useless.

	19-09-2003 19:31									#20
	Enter the AD-FREE zone

Yeah, anything non-essential can only annoy -- and some "features," running in the background, slow down the game, especially on older comps.

	19-09-2003 20:59									#21
	Support Apolyton

The worst was, even when I shut off the music, it would play while the game was starting up then stop when the opening screen popped in 4000 B.C. When you're playing MP and waiting for all the players to join and the number of restarts, it was still enough to irritate me.

That has now stopped. I don't know why, but I don't care as long as I don't have to listen to it.

All the other features were shut off after the first couple of games. The wonder movies lasted the longest since I liked them.

	20-09-2003 20:58									#22
	Got spare money?

Oh - I still play with the Wonder Movies - it only takes a click to stop them if they interfere, but that tinkling sound that says, "You've won!" - again is so satisfying ...