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hopeful

Problem with Civ3...
I was hoping somebody here would be able to help me here...

Having been a massive Civ fan since the first game, I bought Civ3 when it first came out, installing it on my laptop and running it with no problems. Last year I had to uninstall it due to some space issues, then discovered my little brother had broken my disk, aargh. Recently though I've once again felt its all-consuming pull and wanted to play again. I bought a new disk, cleared out enough space and installed it. However, the game won't run- when I selected 'Play' it flashed up the screen of the Tower of Babel, then the CD just stopped running and nothing happened. I've tried uninstalling it, reinstalling, jumping directly into play, running it from PTW, but nothing's worked. Now the Tower of Babel doesn't even appear- when I select 'Play', I get a little white square in the centre of my screen, then it stops.

I seriously doubt it's my computer, as the game worked fine on it before and I've already defragged/debugged it trying to get it to work. And I don't think it's my game disk either, as I borrowed a copy off my friend and it still didn't work.

Has anyone else come across this problem before? And can anyone help? I'm ringing up the UK Atari hotline tomorrow, but I thought this community would be my best bet. Right now I'm going insane from withdrawl...