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[dote]

Originally Posted by arete

Use DOSbox. The games on AB are usually pre-installed. We also have DOSbox help guides on the forum.

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I need some basic help!
Actually I have downloaded and unziped pirates gold and also dosbox, but I have no clue how to install and run the program.
I have also tried to read about dosbox and other FAQ but still I have no idea how to get forward.
I love this game though played it alot in early 90's.
thank you all!

[The Fifth Horseman]

A Beginner's guide to DOSBox should get you started.

[cjk1995]

I'm searching for CD-ROM version (DOS and Windows). Do anybody have it?

[Maxor127]

I just have the Mac version on CD and I'm not sure why it's even on one since it's still not that big of a game on the CD, unless it has slightly better music and audio. It's only about 20 MB installed I think, if even that.

[gumpy]

I like the original Pirates better than Pirates Gold.

[BranjoHello]

Great title, but I don't have any reason to play this one since the remake was launched.

[TotalAnarchy]

Originally Posted by BranjoHello

Great title, but I don't have any reason to play this one since the remake was launched.

Man, I really wanted to ask you one time. Are your posts really necessary? I mean, how many one-line posts are you gonna do per day? If it's a great title, then say what's so great about it, if it sucks then specify why exactly. Even when you praise the game, I don't feel any love in your words, and when you criticize them, I don't hear the reasons. Both great games and bad games deserve more than one line in a fair appreciation.

[BranjoHello]

Originally Posted by TotalAnarchy

Man, I really wanted to ask you one time. Are your posts really necessary? I mean, how many one-line posts are you gonna do per day? If it's a great title, then say what's so great about it, if it sucks then specify why exactly. Even when you praise the game, I don't feel any love in your words, and when you criticize them, I don't hear the reasons. Both great games and bad games deserve more than one line in a fair appreciation.

Hehe, it would be unwise to discuss about necessarity of things. Something that seem necessary to you maybe don't seem necessary to me, and vice versa.
About the "length of posts", I don't believe that going into much detail is needed unless someone asks you for it.
About "love", well, I certainly don't love or hate every game that have my post in its thread, I have the power of liking and disliking.
I don't know what more info would you like from me about this title,
Sid Meier's Pirates! > Pirates Gold
is the case because everything that is good in Gold(graphics, sound, gameplay) is even better in later title, except for atmosphere which is on the same level in both.

[Oskatat]

i think you should consider the uses of a forum as opposed to a poll/vote. This is a place where people look for game info, but also for a 2nd opinion. "it's bad" isnt much of a useful opinion

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edited: the comments on posts is here because someone posted a few dozen times at various games with small notes along the lines of "I like it" "it sucks" and things like that. You can rate games at their page, this is for discussion. Just to keep people informed who read this later on and wonder what it is about have fun

[Oskatat]

some Dutch admiral figured it was easier to attack the seperate pieces of the silver fleet (they gathered at 2 different places and came together at havana, mid american treasures, with south american treasures), the game accurately reflects this more or less. However, somehow, the 2nd part of the fleet not arriving anywhere near schedule made the spanish wary and attacking the 2nd part failed (yes they used sloops)

from the 80 years war i love the most that te dutch mainly financed it by selling weapons to the spanjards (spain, the enemy). And, as in Colonize, many people realize, The Dutch never had many colonies around their, but they sure loved their piracy.... Buccanearancy? Privateering. They werent pirates ofc. Accident happen you know