Hi all, I'm trying to get Tropico 1 to work on my Linux PC with wine, but when I launch the game I get this error in a popup window:

"Can't find Tropico : Gold CD, Disk1
Please insert the CD (Disk 1) and restart the game"

For some reason, Tropico 2 doesn't have this same error.
Hopefully somebody else has seen this and can fix it for me.

I'm using wine 1.3.5 and Fedora 13.

Other posts here have said that this issue occurs if you have no CD/DVD drive. Does your system have one?

Yeah, it's a laptop with a DVD/CD thing.

You'll have to forgive me as I've not used Wine so this may be a silly question, but can Wine see your CD/DVD drive? Might it be a setting in Wine that can be turned on and off, whether it can see your optical drives?

I tried to add a CD Drive to wine, but that didn't help.

The image I'm attaching is showing how I have the CD ROM drive configured.

Is that mapped CD drive actually pointing to your real CD drive or is it just virtual? Make sure it's pointing at your real CD drive and that no disc is in it (in case that it see's a disc it isn't expecting).

Other than that, I'm afraid I'm out of ideas. Hopefully someone who has used Wine will be able to help more.

I changed it from /mnt/cdrom to /dev/cdrom and that also doesn't work.

Was this ever solved? I'm having this problem too =\

nevermind I got it working. For others that stumble onto this post, you can probably find a workaround here:

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/tropico_reloaded/uhhh/page2

FWIW, I found exactly the opposite problem - the game refused to run as long as there was no CD in the drive. Putting a disc (any disc!) in seemed to kick Wine into recognising that there was a drive present, and the game started normally after that.

I don't know if this particular variant of the bug is restricted to my machine, but it seems worth mentioning in case anyone else runs across it...

-Andrew.

I had this problem too at first.

You need to run winecfg and go into the drives section. Make sure one of those drives is not only set to CD-ROM as a type but that it points to something that actually exists on your filesystem. You don't need to point it to the real CD drive, in fact its probably better if you don't. On my Mac I point D: to /Volumes, which of course always exists. On my Ubuntu laptop I use ~

The game doesn't seem to care what's there, I assume that part was treated as DRM and removed. Checking that there is a CD-ROM drive was probably built into the part of the program that checks to make sure that the system meets the minimum hardware requirements.

I have the same problem, but i have no idea wat winecfg is and how i can change the location. Can somebody help me ?

hey !
winecfg is the configuration tool of a linux's program called wine giving the hability for the linux users to run windows exe

If you are running a linux OS, just open up a terminal, and type in winecfg then enter and there you are