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Posted February 21, 2013
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Sargon: Thumbs up!

I know where my Caesar II CD is but I would pay for a CD free Dosbox version. Caesar II has that classic game feeling, like Civilization II and Sim City 2000. Even though Caesar II has been surpassed by Caesar III (like Civ III has to Civ II) it is by no means obsolete.
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DrIstvaan: Have you got it to run? In the meantime, I've found my CD, but it hangs when I try to launch the installer.
Anyway, it'd be really nice to have Caesar 2 here.
No. I haven't played it since Windows 95. Since it required Real Mode DOS, Windows ME and XP was not an option. One day I'm actually going to learn myself the basics needed to configure DOSBox. I'm sure it is quick and easy, it is just that buying games already set up to play from GOG have made me spoiled and lazy.

http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=1344&letter=C
According to the compability list the latest version of DOSBox, 0.74 is not compatible while 0.73 works fine. But a Windows installer problem is an entirely different issue altogether. If you have VirtualBox or another virtual machine with a Win9x system on it you could just install it on there and copy the files back to your host system. I'm sure there are some other good solutions to your problem somewhere on the net.
Posted February 23, 2013
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DrIstvaan: Have you got it to run? In the meantime, I've found my CD, but it hangs when I try to launch the installer.
Anyway, it'd be really nice to have Caesar 2 here.
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Sargon: No. I haven't played it since Windows 95. Since it required Real Mode DOS, Windows ME and XP was not an option. One day I'm actually going to learn myself the basics needed to configure DOSBox. I'm sure it is quick and easy, it is just that buying games already set up to play from GOG have made me spoiled and lazy.

http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=1344&letter=C
According to the compability list the latest version of DOSBox, 0.74 is not compatible while 0.73 works fine. But a Windows installer problem is an entirely different issue altogether. If you have VirtualBox or another virtual machine with a Win9x system on it you could just install it on there and copy the files back to your host system. I'm sure there are some other good solutions to your problem somewhere on the net.
Thanks for confirming.
Posted June 20, 2013
Yeah i actually feel a bit disapointed with this one, there wasn't a major difference from one to two beyond a real campaign and some actual point to province mode.

3 is ... feels a bit harsher especially stuff like needing a specific building for stuff not falling down for no particular reason which in 2 was just ... "upkeep"? in the plebs section.

so yeah gog go add 2... whilst you're at it, fix it for us ^_^

for anyone who dont know, 2 suffered serious save / load bugs. of the 3 i know from playing it, first is your entire city map is rubble except water...there are no buildings at all as if the map just reseeded OR the save doesn't load at all.

its why i operate a 3/4 save system had 3 saves to choose from and the autosave... man that felt weird back then to do that... now its a reflex.
Post edited June 20, 2013 by Savvage
Posted June 21, 2013
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Savvage: Yeah i actually feel a bit disapointed with this one, there wasn't a major difference from one to two beyond a real campaign and some actual point to province mode.

3 is ... feels a bit harsher especially stuff like needing a specific building for stuff not falling down for no particular reason which in 2 was just ... "upkeep"? in the plebs section.

so yeah gog go add 2... whilst you're at it, fix it for us ^_^

for anyone who dont know, 2 suffered serious save / load bugs. of the 3 i know from playing it, first is your entire city map is rubble except water...there are no buildings at all as if the map just reseeded OR the save doesn't load at all.

its why i operate a 3/4 save system had 3 saves to choose from and the autosave... man that felt weird back then to do that... now its a reflex.
Never had trouble with this - it was that frequent carsh before manually controlled battles which drove me crazy. I believe this was even fixed, but someone how I never got beyond how to make this fix work.
Post edited June 21, 2013 by Sakkraner
Posted July 28, 2014
I realize this is an old post, but I can't stress how thrilled I was to find others who loved Caesar II, and slightly vindicated that I was not alone when I couldn't get it to run.

I would pay hard currency to have a version compatible with modern systems of Caesar II.
Posted November 14, 2014
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Kierhenan: Still, one thing I won't miss:

PLEBS ARE NEEDED! PLEBS ARE NEEDED! PLEBS ARE N... *Repeatedly smash speakers with hammer*
I know that feeling. thankfully, it was also shown as a message in the upper right corner, so I just muted the sound after literally yelling SRFU a couple of times.

Really one of the most annoying Videogames sounds ever! Pity for such a great game.
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