@KennyR
75 turns are 2.5 months or allmost 19 ToT-years, more than enough to into the game.
This is what you should do:
Install from CD.
Download the Public-CD-Update from
here.Unpack that and simply copy it over the ToT-dir (files will
be replaced.
Start game(*).
Click on "register".
Fill in your data.
Send it.
Further question should be easily cleared in the Forum or on irc.
The game is a bit slow in the first years, but you should
use these to make contacts, and learn who might be a friend,
and who not.
(*) When playing on a Pegasos you might get some deadlocks
when ToT tries to open a shellwindow for output, but this
can be avoided by starting "tot-client-debug" from shell.