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3 - There are cities which yeild a lot of gold when plundered, they're the cities of gold (the Aztec and even more the Incan cities), but there will be no special notification.
2 - No, they don't produce their own food, so you will need to supply it and you may also want to supply people (don't forget you only have males, so no reproduction possible).
1 - I've never reached the end, but I've read in one of the magazines back in the eighties (when the original game first came out) that the game ends when you have discovered everything (100% on the map) - as I said, I never got that far, never beyond 88%.

I can't get this game to run.

If I try to run it in XP, I get some error message. I also have dosbox and use it for other programs, but when I tell it to run the exe, it says 'file not found'. :tai:

[Sebatianos]

Sounds like there's a path problem.

Are you sure you're running the EXE file and there's no BAT file with the same name? In that case the BAT file would run and it might point to a certain directory. In that case you should edit the BAT file.

I think, like I was, you're lacking a subfolder, and every file is located in the main 7cities folder. What you should do is to make a folder "m52". In this, you put every file, except:

7cities.exe, (7cog.bat*,) 7cog.ad, adlib.adv, dock.xmi, land.smp, newworld.riv, sbdig.adv, sbfm.adv, sea.smp, splash.voc, terrain.xmi, testblas.exe, theme.xmi, trbscrn.xmi, values.cfg, village.xmi.

* You may not have this bat file. If so you can make one yourself:
Open notepad, and type:

7cities.exe -s -i7 -p220

Save this as "7cog.bat" so this means to change the file extension from *.txt to *.bat.

Now you can start "7cog" and play the game with sound.

Good luck

[tobsen]

a short remark on settlements:

Fort: needs a minimum population of 70 and a certain percentage of soldiers (e.g. 48 explorers + 22 soldiers)
Mission: needs a minimum population of 150 of which at least 10 have to be clerks
Colony: needs a minimum population of 301 of which at least 5 are clerks

The manual available on abandonia states that u need to have at least 3 forts, 1 mission and 1 colony to win the game. I tried this and when i returned to Spain the King told me something like: "Yourr mission to open a gateway to the New World was a succes!" and promoted me to Commander, however I didn't get an end of game sequence or anything. I could just continue playing, so I don't know if it did the trick.

[Geezer]

The original release of this game was in 1984 by Electronic Arts and Ozark Softscape. If the game is ok to download I will create an archive of the original (PC Booter) and scan the manuals, box etc and maybe we can have the original release archive be an extra that can be downloaded from the page for the 1993 version.

[Picollo]

i cant find the original 7 cities of gold, does it exist for PC?

[Geezer]

Originally Posted by Picollo

i cant find the original 7 cities of gold, does it exist for PC?

Yes (see post above). PC Booter.

[Midgetlegs]

I realize it was only just asked (uh, a few months ago) but I'm having the same trouble with the values file. Just wondering how to fix this.

Originally Posted by Midgetlegs

I realize it was only just asked (uh, a few months ago) but I'm having the same trouble with the values file. Just wondering how to fix this.

This game looks fun but your explorers run out of food wwwwwwaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy too quickly - I'd love to be able to change these settings and actually make the game, I don't know, PLAYABLE!

Please let me know if you find an answer to your question. Thanks.