I would now like to give some acquaintances Settlers 3, I have tentatively bought the issue of Purple Hills. Less than 5 euros is not a lot, because you can try it.
(!) Unfortunately, I was disappointed, as though on the back of the package is a screenshot of the Amazons people, which is a pure settler 3: So * without * the Missions CD and without the Amazons Addon - and consequently, without the Map Editor. I would have me to think already, because in the description, only the speech of 3 people was (with the Amazons there are 4) and the Orange Packaging color was only used for the base-S3 (the Missions CD was green, Amazons Addon violet and the Gold Edition includes everything was brown-yellow). So I would advise everyone to a Gold Edition zuzulegen be - because you forgot Amazons addon without the (included in the Gold Edition) can play online ...
By the way, with the 1.60 patch XP (and Vista and Win 7 others with possibly some tricks) runs the game on Win XP, Vista, 7 (including 64 bit editions) - and also under Linux with Wine. By aLobby you can play online at all mentioned systems S3.