(September 24, 2015 at 7:43 pm)IATIA Wrote:(September 24, 2015 at 10:06 am)emjay Wrote: You say you went back to XP - do they still activate that? I've still got old copies of XP lying around and I'd love to be able to play Civ2 again. I mean not as my main OS - which will stay as 7 - but just to put on an older laptop.
No problem activating, just memos that it is no longer supported. Partition your drive to accommodate the minimum necessary for XP, then install Win7 on the second partition and it will automatically setup a boot menu that will let you choose XP or Win7.
Thank you, that's wonderful to know
I'm not too keen on putting it on this laptop (which has an SSD, and which is the one with Windows 7) because I don't think it's optimised for the job and could wear out the drive. So it would have to go on my other, Linux only, netbook. I was a bit impulsive the first time round - I switched over to Linux by overwriting my Windows XP installation rather than putting it alongside it on second partition. From it I haven't missed anything except the games, particularly Colonization and Civ2, and they don't work in anything above XP (though I managed to get Colonization working to some degree in DOSBox but it wasn't the same). Can you still get the service packs for XP or would it best just to leave it offline except for activating?
