Europa 1400 Gold patch?

[OKFreddy]

Europa 1400 Gold is protected with Securom 5.00.03. Using Alcohol to make a backup leads to a 750 meg image - too big to burn to CD. Worse, the game doesn't like it.

How can I put this gently....HELP!!!!!

[munsterbuster]

Hm. Try a 800 meg CD.
At which version is the game at the moment.

[OKFreddy]

It's version 2.0g.

I got an image working using alcohol 120% and the latest Daemon Tools (v3.47) so all is not bad. Can't back the image up but that's fine if it works off the hard drive. At least the original CD is safe against kids.

[johnmyth]

I found it in its best health.... I like the comments given below

"Europa 1400 Gold is protected with Securom 5.00.03. Using Alcohol to make a backup leads to a 750 meg image - too big to burn to CD. Worse, the game doesn't like it."

[Joe Forster/STA]

This is a three-year old thread. Also, your post doesn't seem to have any meaning...

[TippeX]

also 750mb is not too big to burn on cd.. its an image, it can be bigger than the cd size, because the image file itself is NOT burned to the disk...
and yep 3 year old thread...

[EnergyRecruit]

Take a leap back in time with The Guild:Europa. All the way back to 1400 to be exactly. Set up in business as thief, trader, alchemist, priest, landlord, perfumer, stonemason, townguard or joiner and from humble beginings build up your own little empire. There are a number of routes you can try, goals to be met etc.; not all goals are attainable in one generation, so its important that you marry off your character asap. Once under way there are civic duties and posts to be filled, espionage andEuropa 1400: Gold for PC - reviews, previews, cheats, walkthroughs, FAQs, downloads and videos at Gamepublic.Com ... Europa 1400: Gold for PC, not rated

note from mod: this is a blatant copy/paste from some www page about the game, which was done simply so energyrecruit could post and have his signature seen... BAD IDEA...

[TippeX]

bleh, thats an advert.. bye energyrecruit...

[BlogApostille]

This game was such a clear disappointment for me because I started playing it for the reason that I had played The Guild 2 and the bugs made it simply unplayable. I had thought that Europa 1400 Gold would be an aged yet completed game because it has been 5 years since its release in 2002.

I was absolutely wrong. For all its charm, the game was patched with a Beta 3 patch, and I am guessing that the "AddOn" aka GOLD edition was built with this fixes from this patch already in the game. I am not sure if it is even possible to fix these bugs anymore. It is very disappointing and sad that it has come to this over issues in which both games have been criticized for having bugs that could have been fixed by any intermediate programmer with moderate intelligence. "Intermediate Programmer" and "Moderate Intelligence" are both words I take directly from the community, and there is pages of complaints to Jowood that are all ignored. If that is not enough; to continuously make these mistakes in every single release, across multiple genres such as Gothic 3 patches, and both Europa 1400 Gold & The Guild 2, how can one not worry about the future of the strategy gaming industry