CIVIII Safedisk

[MrBeer]

I bought a copy of Civ III. I've installed it, but when I go to play the game, the initial screen pops up (splash screen?), does nothing for a few minutes and then drops back to the desktop without starting the game or opening movies.

Checking the suppliers website, I need the CivIII Safedisk patch, but the game suppliers won't provide it to me unless I live in North America, which I don't.

Does anyone know where I can get hold of this patch on the Net?

<BTW I'm don't know much about this kind of thing, but I know enough to have checked the minimum system requirements -I'm way over-, spare hd space - way over-, re-booting, de-installing and trying again and downloaded the 1.16 Patch for CIVIII>