99.9+ % do their job honestly, but a small number are actually Trojans ("Trojan Horses").Ī Trojan masquerades as one thing, but does another. you should be very very careful when using a crack.
LINKS 2001 NO CD PATCH .EXE
EXE are identical.įor those that don't use cracks very often, or that don't know much about the registry and programming.
LINKS 2001 NO CD PATCH NO CD
You can now choose to start your original Civ2.exe file with the icon you've always used, OR you can start it with No CD required using the new icon!!Īfter a little more investigation, I discovered this particular crack is not just similar to the NO-CD Civ II crack I've used for 2 years, but it is in fact the same exact one! The changes to the. Put the new shortcut icon wherever you'd like.ġ2. Make a shortcut icon to your Civ2_NO-CD.exe fileġ1.
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Move the Civ2_NO-CD.exe (or whatever you renamed it to) to your Civ2 directoryġ0. Double click Civ2_13.com (program runs and reports patch was successful)ĩ. You should now see both the Civ2.exe and the Civ2_13.com files (and maybe other files too, but that's OK)Ħ. Extract the Civ2_13.com file to your temporary location (like c:\)Ĥ. Copy the Civ2.exe file to a temporary location, like maybe c:\ģ. This way, I start either version (the unmodified. Then I make a new shortcut icon to launch the NO-CD. EXE file (Civ2.exe), but keep the original. The way I like to use NO-CD patches such as this one are to modify the original. It is especially great for laptops, or SCSI machines with the CD Drives deactivated. I've used a very similar patch for 2 years. Here is the crack's (probably inadequate for most people) readme file instructions:Ĭlick to expand. But if you can already do that, you probably won't need to be reading what I'm writing here, LOL. EXEs are possible though unlikely, and you should not try it unless you can read machine language and alter byte codes by hand.
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EXE file (e.g., Civ2_Fascist.exe, or Civ2_NoCD.exe) and make a shortcut to the new SINGLE patched. E.g., don't expect to patch with Fascist, then NO-CD (or visa versa). Rule #2: "Double patches" are generally unsafe. Rule #1: Make backups of everything first, and do patching in a separate directory (See detailed instructions further down). If you patch your Civ2.exe file with another program (like the Fascist Patch), you may well screw the pooch. This No-CD patch is for a specific machine file (Civ2.exe) and specific version (MGE, 1.3). Since Thunderfall has actually posted a NO-CD patch (AKA "crack") in a different thread, and many have asked in this section about running Civ II MGE with no CD, I'll make some comments and include the link of TF's post.įWIW, I downloaded and tested it.