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[Tulac]

Originally posted by Christian IV@May 7 2005, 04:11 PM
I will be sure to keep master copies of the main files, yes indeed.
I noted that there appear to be four versions of Civ II, the classic or
original, then what appears to be called FW or Fantastic Worlds, Test of
Time and Gold Version. I am assuming that if you have Gold Version,
the scenarios will play for it that also play for FW and TOT, am i wrong?
I did see that there are patches that update a basic game to Gold, but
can one go backwards, and down size the game to earlier versions from Gold
that you know of? I am glad we have the Gold version on the site. I did
see that the Gold version requires that the player have a Civ CD in the
CD drive to play the game, but found a patch that bypasses this requirement.
Do you know if our Admins loaded the patch already? I can look for it
later but just wondered if you or anyone reading this know about this. :blink:

Well I think that FW and ToT are not included in the gold version(not sure though) because if it's the same as those patches from civfanatics than I'm sure it hasn't.
You see I had normal Civ2 and upgraded it to gold, it was the same as normal Civ2 but with multiplayer , which includes hot seat too, maybe it has other stuff that I don't remember(I played it last 3-4 years ago)...
I think that for running Civ2 gold from abandonia you don't need anykind of CD, because that Multiplayer Gold Edition patch from civfanatics is useful only to those people that have the civ2 normal version, and it would would be logical that for abandonia version is already standalone...

What are the maps i see availble used for,can they be used for
making new scenarios, or are they created for use in the regular
game and can they be selected by menu?

The maps that you already have, you can use them to play a normal game, OR you can edit them in Civ2 cheat mode...
More answers are on Civfanatics.com where I too found out all this stuff, and I recommend that site for every fan of Civ I,II,III and the upcoming IV...