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How do we get past the copy protect on this?

How do you get past the copyright protection?

" What planet uses this sheild?"

[Dino]

@ Kane and Kitten - simple enough, just press enter and - voila! k:

[Dino]

Originally posted by Finer@Apr 17 2005, 04:42 PM
Can any of you save your progress in Populous? Everytime I click on the Filename box i get the prompt for my Deity name and then the Deity Verification Check; just like when i first start the game. I can't save my game. Does anyone know how to get around this? I even copied all the files to a floppy disk and run the game from there, but no luck.

During the game, you have to click on the world icon, near the phone, sound and other icons - on the far right - you will be prompted for folder, choose it (or type it in) and name of the savegame. You just type it in, and there you have it!

Thanks for your explanation OvErLoRd. I must say, I assumed that nobody saved their games and thought populous was just too old to save properly. I even copied the game to a floppy and tried from there; but this was before reading your post.

Now, i have followed your steps and it didn't work, in fact that's what I was doing before, but somehow the game asked me again about my deity name and then the copy protection stuff, right after i clicked on the file name box.

It's obvious that saving works, because it's working for you. So, after trying a few things, I managed to get it working. I moved the populous folder to C:\, instead of my long path d:\games\strategy\. After this i thought the pathnames were important. I tried a few things, like placing populous inside many folders and also changing the lenght of name folders (i never went over 8 characters, knowing that populous is a dos game and won't like Windows long filenames). Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.

To summarise: if saving doesn't work for you, move the entire populous folder to C:\, or D:\, which worked for me too and keep folder names no longer than 8 letters.

[BeefontheBone]

If you're running it in DOSBox you should be able to get around that by having it mount your long folder (Like C:\Program Files\Games\Dave's Games\DOS Games\) as a drive (usually C:\) root, then the games will disagree with it less often.

[omg]

i know its not the one you are after but
you can get populous the beggining
here
i got a copy second hand from a shop for 50p!! used to have it on the ps1 but the ps1 version was really bad. to much slowdown on the ps1 but this version rocks.

were is a manual for this game

[The Fifth Horseman]

Checked the Extras box on the review page?
If it's not there, try www.replacementdocs.com .

Anybody know how to activate the mouse? Or am I the only person with this problem?