as you guys might have seen, creating an image with alcohol 120% worked for me!
i can only recommend it further!
as for the coming patches:
- the FINAL and only official patch will be coming out Q2/2004
- the next semi-official beta-patch should be out end of february.
- a localization patch (making the current 1.15 patch compatible for all language versions) should come out end of january.
- for the "real" beta community there may be more patches. but because people are irritated by so many patches in just a few weeks, atari put a stop public presentation. someone of the beta community may (hopefully) leak the newest versions out
the existing patches:
- 1.00 and 1.02 are extremely buggy! especially in the later game it gets awful with the so-called "gpt-bug" and the FP-bug.
- 1.12b fixed the first. the latter was partially fixed.
- 1.13b fixed the gpt by using a new corruption model
- 1.15b uses the originally intended corruption model.
i do NOT recommend anyone to play with a patch earlier than 1.12 as it's just half as much fun if you forbidden palace produces more corruption than without.
so, if you own the game, bring the CD with you each time (i know, it sucks) or use alcohol 120%.
if you don't own the game you have several options:
1. buy it (10$ at amazon.com isn't that much!)
2. crack it yourself
3. wait a few weeks for some patch consolidation and a no-cd crack
4. play with the buggy original version
my tip: go for 1.
edit: update patch info