I Found It!!!!!

[NeoSpartan]

Guess Whos back? back again? NeoSpartan's Back... tell the girls......

YO FELLAS!!!!! I just found my RTW CD!!!!!!


yeah thats what I am talking about!
for the past 2 or so months I've had to play other games but now that I found it.... EB TIME!!!!!!!!!! hahahahaha


feels good to be back in the forums... however, I have a Chemestry exam tomorrow so NO PLAYING TODAY

p.s

hey is the thread about increasing virtual memory and such still around .... I kinda forgot how to do it and I will need it if I want to play 2hrs of normal speed game.

Thx in advanced fellas.

[skuzzy]

Right click My Computer, Advanced tab, first Settings button will be in the Virtual memory section, then set it to whatever your hard drive can handle... although if you set it past a certain point Windows seems to ignore your request and do whatever it likes... good job Windows. These instructions are for XP, I think other versions have a very similar method.

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Welcome back, how long have you been away for?

[NeoSpartan]

thxs sckuzzy!!

uhm.... last time I played RTW/EB was like in late December. So thats like almost 2 months....


ok back to studying

[MaximianusBR]

hahaha...
my story is sadder!!!!!
my cd driver burned with my rome cd inside and totally destroyed it...
It Tooked 3 months for me to arrange a new rome cd and a new cd driver... and more 3 months for me to get sick of playing bugged M2TW and come back to EB!!

the more I play it...more I like it!!!
!!!!!EB Rocks!!!!!

[Moros]

Why don't you guys used no-CD cracks? They're perfectly legal and easy to get.

[Caius]

Why don't you guys used no-CD cracks? They're perfectly legal and easy to get.

I think they are not.

[dofod]

Legal...depends where you live, right? If it is legal I should be seeing stuff like this on the site, no?

perhaps I still need to search first

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Don't go linking to anything here or going into any detail that will cause problems with the site administrators. I dunno if they are or are not, but it's a discussion best suited for somewhere else instead of the eb subforum.

[Moros]

I think they are not.

If you have the CD, it's legal to make copies of it or to use images or other no-CD stuff. If you don't own the CD it is obviously not, of course you can't spread them to people with no CD's.

EDit: I'll shut up now.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

If you have the CD, it's legal to make copies of it or to use images or other no-CD stuff. If you don't own the CD it is obviously not, of course you can't spread them to people with no CD's.

EDit: I'll shut up now.

Correct...
Copyright laws (in the USA) are generally that you can copy something that you purchased, for your own use only.
Storing For Backup = OK
Letting Friend Use = Bad
Selling or Profit = Really really Bad

This whole deal was first decided on when VCRs were first made (even TV channels were mad as VCRs).
This is also how people who make burning and ripping software can be a legitamate business.

[Bonny]

If you have the CD, it's legal to make copies of it or to use images or other no-CD stuff. If you don't own the CD it is obviously not, of course you can't spread them to people with no CD's.

EDit: I'll shut up now.

in germany it is not, if you ned to use a additional program to overtake the copy protection.

[MaximusGauis]

hahaha...
my story is sadder!!!!!
my cd driver burned with my rome cd inside and totally destroyed it...
It Tooked 3 months for me to arrange a new rome cd and a new cd driver... and more 3 months for me to get sick of playing bugged M2TW and come back to EB!!

the more I play it...more I like it!!!
!!!!!EB Rocks!!!!!

Nothing like the smell of burned cd driver. Allmost as good as burnt HD.

[Kugutsu]

gah, thats the worst in the world. I still remember the day 3 years ago when I switched on my PC to get a bang and a puff of ozone, as my power supply exploded and slagged my hard drive with the entirety of the work I had done over my degree, including the final year paper which was due in 2 weeks later...

>>goes off to back up everything onto another drive in case the evil computer spirits are reading this...<<

[NeoSpartan]

man I would hate if my laptop got fried....

anywho... false alarm fellas, the CD is so baddly scrached up that its worthless

...but on a good news... we got a snow/ice storm, not a big thing really, BUT enough to cancel college and I didn't have to take the test today


on the subject of DLing... yep in the US thats illegal UNLESS u pay for it. Like u do with iTunes for music.

[Brightblade]

buy the game you poor bastards, lols

*Glances at his over 100 title collection spanning from original Wing Commander for PC and Air Warrior (REAL games) to the crappy games they make today and call games...*

im gonna make me a fortune in like 30 years when these become relics!

[MaximusGauis]

Right click My Computer, Advanced tab, first Settings button will be in the Virtual memory section, then set it to whatever your hard drive can handle... although if you set it past a certain point Windows seems to ignore your request and do whatever it likes... good job Windows. These instructions are for XP, I think other versions have a very similar method.

Thanks for the help with Virtual memory. That fix helped me too.

[-Praetor-]

Glad to have you back, Neospartan!

[NeoSpartan]

yep just went ahead and got a new copy of the game today... now its time to play EB 8.1 haha....

no wait.... I gotta study again 1st damn college

[Tuuvi]

Why don't you just quit college and do manual labor for the rest of your life? EB is more than worth it.

[Redigo]

I hate to say it, but that's no longer true. Thanks to some new legislation in the late 90s, including the famous DMCA, breaking copyright protection even for perfectly valid reasons is a crime.

Of course, that's not to say you'd ever, ever get busted for it. So if you've got a valid CD but don't want the hassle of searching for it every time you'd like to play, go ahead. I do.

Correct...
Copyright laws (in the USA) are generally that you can copy something that you purchased, for your own use only.
Storing For Backup = OK
Letting Friend Use = Bad
Selling or Profit = Really really Bad

This whole deal was first decided on when VCRs were first made (even TV channels were mad as VCRs).
This is also how people who make burning and ripping software can be a legitamate business.

[Moros]

How can you brake the copywrite law if you already bought it? Are you sure that you can't make back ups for yourself? Seems rather strange to me, but if it is like you say, then better forget what I said.

[Redigo]

No no no, I'm not trying to make anybody paranoid. I was just pointing out a relatively new American law that makes circumventing copy protection methods a crime. The law elsewhere may be (and probably is) very different, and it's not a big deal in any case.

Sorry if I upset anybody unnecessarily.