For anyone else who ends up here, this is the link to the thread:
http://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=54524&p=508455&hilit=install#p508455

and for very lazy people like me, here's a summary :)

"I have the original Commander Europe at War. I have just installed it again after not ...

Sorry yes it is CEAW 1.12 Grand Strategy 1.02 and I haven't updated it recently. Thanks, that's fair enough. I might crack out an AI game on the original to get my fix

It's August 1940 and i've managed to surround two german subs with various allied navy units off the coast of France. When I end my turn the AI does a few things on the mainland (yes it hasn't taken France yet) and then i'm guessing it doesn't know what to do so it sits there with the egg timer ...

It worked. I had to send my new hardware fingerprint to Digital River who then sent me a new licence key.

The game now runs as normal but i'm using Commander.exe because launcher.exe seems to be knackered from being constantly detected as a virus by AVG.

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Hi Iain,

I've now got the game on my Windows 7 PC by the suggestion above about copying the folder from an XP machine. The problem now is my licence key no longer works. Please could you let me know how I can get it reactivated or get a new one?

I tried the Customer Service option which asks for ...

Old machine:

HP7600 desktop
2GB mem
WinXP Pro SP3

Here's the log:

[INFO] logger started at Sun Nov 08 23:23:21 GMT 2009
[INFO] exectuable name: C:\Users\Baboon\AppData\Local\Temp\ceaw_v106b_TMP.EXE
[INFO] Properties:
-- listing properties --
java.runtime.name=Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment ...

I'm running AVG Free (version 9.0.698). I've also tried a slightly older version of Java - v6 update 7 but no joy.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83ghz
Asus P5Q3 motherboard
Corsair 4gb memory
ATI Radeon HD4890 1gb
Creative Audigy ZS
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

A fresh download does the same thing

Hi,

I am trying to reinstall Slitherine version v1.06 on Windows 7 Pro (64-bit) but the progress bar stops at about 90% for the install4j Wizard and I get the following error:

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The Java (TM) VM could not be started. Please restart the installation. You may use the parameter "/manual" to ...

Hi,

I notice Commander: Europe at War is no longer available to purchase. Is there any reason why the game should no longer run? I run the executable as usual but nothing happens. Nothing in task manager either...