can't start ptw

[Antaine]

hi there. i've been having much trouble gettin ptw to start. i'm a mac user, who, despite the powers that be in civland treating us pretty much like s*** (we still don't have an editor for mac civIII), I decided I couldn't wait any longer for ptw. I went out and got virtual pc, civIIIpc and civ3ptw. i installed it all and, well, the editor works, but beyond that - nothing. I've tried using the start menu, the desktop alias, and even opening the folder and clicking on the civilization3x.exe icon itself. it reads the cd, and then simply stops thinking about it. no civ screen, no nothing...

now, i don't know my way around a pc os (i'm running windows 98 se) - as a mac guy much of it seems counterintuitive to me - so i'm wondering if i need to change a setting or two - or maybe download a driver or plugin.

i've already gone through quite a bit of expense with absolutely nothing to show for it except three receipts - but hey, anything for civ, right?

any help or advice anyone could give i'd appreciate greatly.

[WarpStorm]

Is virtual PC a PC emulator?

[Antaine]

yes, it is, but i have never had this problem with any other program.

[Antaine]

i cleared everything and reinstalled just civiii. i figured if civiii won't run, than ptw which needs civiii of course wont. i get an error message when i just try to start civiii without ptw installed. Like i said I don't know much about the workings of pc's so this is practicly meaningless. any idea what this means?

This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down
DETAILS>>
CIVILIZATION3 caused an invalid page fault in
module ~DF394B.TMP at 0167:100252231.
Registers:
EAX=10024c4f CS=0167 EIP=10025231 EFLGS=00000297
EBX=00880052 SS=016f ESP=00abfa0c EBP=00abfa5c
ECX=abc73d98 DS=016f ESI=00e501a0 FS=0eff
EDX=10024c4f ES=016f EDI=00893ab4 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 45 d0 8b 48 24 89 4d f0 8b 55 0c 83 c2 28 89
Stack dump:
00893ab4 00e501a0 00880052 00000005 0000000a
00000000 00000000 100266cd 00e51100 0000c590
0000000a 10024c50 10024c4f 10025708 100252a1
10025231