What are the differences between the Civ3 versions of PC and Mac?

Originally posted by Caveneau
What are the differences between the Civ3 versions of PC and Mac?

As long as they're patched to the same version, nothing. Uh, keeping this low key to prevent a platform war. Ah hell, go Macintosh! Yeah! ;)

Damn right!

Originally posted by dojoboy
As long as they're patched to the same version, nothing.

Not quite true - the Mac port uses Quartz for text rendering, which looks nicer.

Originally posted by Brad Oliver
Not quite true - the Mac port uses Quartz for text rendering, which looks nicer.

Oops, I had assumed he meant in game-play.

Play the World & Conquest? :mischief:

Play the World & Conquest? :mischief:

:eek: Now, that is below the belt.

Truth be told, I have C3C on my Toshiba, but do most my civving on the Macintosh. Maybe its cause I can't be troubled to lug the laptop back and forth from home & work. Plus, thanks to you guys here, the GOTM is icing on the cake. :)

If you're happy with a vanilla Civ-game, occasionally enhanced with a soupcon of spice in the GOTM, then the Mac will satiate your appetite. It looks pretty and runs fairly trouble-free.

If you want the full Civ experience, patched and enhanced with new versions and supported by the entire creative input of the fan-base, the PC appears -- from my iMac-induced tunnel vision -- to be the better way to go. Our publisher, Macsoft, has the monopoly on turn-based and RTS empire building games and they are not very supportive of this branch of strategy gaming. So, to mix metaphors, if you are into the beauty and simplicity of the quartet, go Mac; if you want the full orchestra you'll need Windoze.