From: pianoman@misseye.uucp (Alan D. Ray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re:  Yet More Civilization Problems...
Date: 17 Aug 92 21:06:59 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <hassink.713630447@manning> hassink@cs.UAlberta.CA (Hassink Brian John) writes:
>kbos@carina.unm.edu (Kurt Bose "of Biscayzee") writes:
>
>>*sigh*
>
>>Today I bought Civ, but when I installed on the HD, the script locked up on
>>Disk 2...it made *really* nasty sounds, and wouldn't install properly, so I
>>just copied the disks to the HD and tried to run it.  Big mistake.
>
>>I tried to run it off HD then, only to get the request to "Insert Disk 8 into
>>any drive", or some such.  Pretty tough, considering I have only four disks...
>>I'm getting a *tad* miffed, here...
>
>>Kurt Bose (as in Daisy, not Rose) - kbos@carina.unm.edu - I'm not the AntiChrist
>>I AM the AntiWoofer. - Junior Stathead{tm} - I'm a shutmouthed, selfless idiot!!
>
>I had a similar problem. I started the install procedure, and it took almost
>half an hour to install! For some reason it would scan the disk or something
>for over five minutes, making the funny sounds, and then finally it would
>transfer the files. I don't know what the hell it's doing in those 5 minutes
>but it seems wholly unnecessary to me. As for the disk requests, I had to
>insert the following in my startup-sequence...

It did the same thing on my 3000 too. The drive was going for awhile, but
nothing was being copied to my hard-drive. Finally, I saw the files being
copied echoed to my shell.


> 
>assign civ1: work:games/civilization
>assign civ2: work:games/civilization
>assign civ3: work:games/civilization
>assign civ4: work:games/civilization
>

I did this too, but the first time I ran it, I got a requester saying,
"Insert Disk 8 into Any Drive" or something like that. It was definitely
Disk 8 though.


>The game works fine now, but that install procedure is just too lousy.
>Whoever did the Amiga port did'nt spend much time Amigatizing the game,
>this is even obvious by the opening when it asks you if you are playing
>with keybord or mouse & keyboard. What Amiga owner would play without
>a mouse?!
>
>Hope this helps somewhat.
>Brian.

Here's another thing the installation did: Remember at the beginning
when it lists all your mounted devices, e.g. 1)DF0:  2)DF1: etc etc?
and then you choose where you want to install the game?
Well my primary partition is Work:, but that was listed as ;)Work:
(I had too many devices, so the install used 1 to 9 up, and then
used other characters).
Guess what? Pressing the character for that partition didn't work.
Nothing happened. All the numbers worked fine. I had to go into my
start-up and comment out the lines mounting three of the devices,
which moved Work: to number 8. THEN it worked.

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