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City Life 2008

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soldyne    111

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so I bought City Life 2008 recently from a half price store for $5.  I try to install on my new windows 7 machine.  it installs just fine but when I try to paly the game it tells me that I am using the wrong CD.  there was only 1 cd in the box and I only have 1 DVD drive.  the only information I can find on City Life 2008 are old reviews on gaming sites.  there are no forums anywhere.  not even on Paradox Interactive home page.  its like they just completely dis-owned the game and wont even recognize they had a hand in its construction (I guess they are living up to their name...).

if anyone has any information about this game it would be appreciated.  I know I only spent 5$ but I woud still like to get some play time out of it.

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Ocram's Razr    964

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Soldyne, didn't you play that game before? Or was that SCS? Well, if it is scratched up, then Tag

Ocram's Razor: Though "more things shouldn't be used than are necessary," they're just too fun to pass up! Expect many verbose arguments from me. I will try to write abstracts before or short summaries after from now on.

Words to live by:
"Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit... But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually..." 1 Corinthians 4-11
"Do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34
"Do not judge so that you will not be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you." Matthew 7:1-3

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Ocram's Razr    964

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Soldyne, didn't you play that game before? Or was that SCS? Well, if it is scratched up, then Tag

Ocram's Razor: Though "more things shouldn't be used than are necessary," they're just too fun to pass up! Expect many verbose arguments from me. I will try to write abstracts before or short summaries after from now on.

Words to live by:
"Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit... But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually..." 1 Corinthians 4-11
"Do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34
"Do not judge so that you will not be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you." Matthew 7:1-3

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soldyne    111

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    thanks for the repsonse. nope, never played City Life. I do have a SCS city journal on the Tilted Mill forum though.

    I have City Life 2008 edition with should be the third edition (after World Edition). I know that the original City Life had some malware on it called starforce but, I tried to make sure that starforce was not on this edition. I am only vaguely familiar with Tages but, I don't know much about it. do I need to install something extra to make Tages function?

    my disk is fresh out of the box and has no scratches (nice shiny mirrored surface). like I said, I only paid $5 for it. a download would probably cost $20 or more (I'm cheap).

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    soldyne    111

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    thanks for the repsonse. nope, never played City Life. I do have a SCS city journal on the Tilted Mill forum though.

    I have City Life 2008 edition with should be the third edition (after World Edition). I know that the original City Life had some malware on it called starforce but, I tried to make sure that starforce was not on this edition. I am only vaguely familiar with Tages but, I don't know much about it. do I need to install something extra to make Tages function?

    my disk is fresh out of the box and has no scratches (nice shiny mirrored surface). like I said, I only paid $5 for it. a download would probably cost $20 or more (I'm cheap).

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    Ocram's Razr    964

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    If no one else has good advice, I would recommend that you try to install in in compatibility mode. I tested a mounted digital copy on my Windows 7 computer and it worked under some circumstances. The digital copy worked fine (eventually) on the computer when it ran vista.

    Ocram's Razor: Though "more things shouldn't be used than are necessary," they're just too fun to pass up! Expect many verbose arguments from me. I will try to write abstracts before or short summaries after from now on.

    Words to live by:
    "Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit... But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually..." 1 Corinthians 4-11
    "Do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34
    "Do not judge so that you will not be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you." Matthew 7:1-3

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    soldyne    111

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    I tried a mounted digital copy and it still asked for the CD! the only .exe file on the CD is the install .exe, when I mount the CD it just tries to re-install. there is no way to play the game using the files on the CD. the actual .exe file that plays the game (once installed) is apparently hard coded to check for the CD so it does not matter if it is mounted or not.

    I could try a compantibility mode but i am not very confident at this point.

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    I installed City Life 2008 Edition on my Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit computer, and it works perfectly, installation goes perfectly, and the game works perfectly, I even tried it on another laptop with windows 7 and it worked so City Life 2008 does suppport Windows 7, and Vista. I didnt even run in compatibility mode or anything, just popped in the CD, it installs and play on all laptops 4.gif

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    soldyne    111

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    I think I know what the problem is. I looked closely at the drive name when the DVD is in the drive and it says "ityLife2008". see the problem? its a typo on the name of the CD. the game is looking for "CityLife2008", its missing the "C".

    maybe I can try mounting again and change the name of the image. wish me luck.

    *edit*

    nope, the mouted image still says "ityLife2008".  I can rename the .mdx file but the name of the image remains unchanged.  oh well, I am pretty sure that this is the problem and since it was only $5 I am not going to worry about it anymore.

    *edit*

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