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    City names starting with special characters

    I absolutely love this investigation! Though I would be worries that the same bug that effects names for cycling through, also effects some other part of the game. For example if the code that cycles through cities calculating population growth, happiness rebellions and wltkd etc uses the same...
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    Simple fix using AI friendly/Existing Game Mechanics to end the World of Axeman and the World of Catapults

    Out of interest have you considered scaling the duration? So for example the ancient era is 3x longer medieval 5x, until modern 15x. I never loved playing elongated games due to the ancient eras being fairly boring.
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    GameHistoryOrg: 87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games

    This site isn't against abandonware per se, its against dealing with reputational and legal risk. Its trivial to find a copy of Civ 2 online and will remain so regardless of whether its linked from here. Certainly the idea that CFC is eradicating Civ 2 is asinine. Due to piracy all these games...
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    GameHistoryOrg: 87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games

    This is a really sad situation. I was looking through a "best of" list of PC games pre 1996 (more on that to come) and around 60% of them are no longer available. And these where games rated the most highly in 1996. GOG has shown there is a market for these classics. The situation on other...
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    Open source rewrite of the original Civilization game (1991) - OpenCiv1 Project

    I thought you had learned some dark secrets (or stumbled over some interesting comments)!
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    Open source rewrite of the original Civilization game (1991) - OpenCiv1 Project

    Amazing work! I assume it had to be some sort of shared library, but nice to know the actual facts of the situation. Out of interest, how do you know it was Bruce and not Sid?
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    Open source rewrite of the original Civilization game (1991) - OpenCiv1 Project

    Maybe you know the answer to this @rahorvat but what is misc.exe? It seems to have been in a few Microprose games, and in the Civ media the file date is `1989-06-05` which predates the rest of the files by a lot.
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    Which Civ4 Wonders of the World Have You Visited?

    Angkor Wat and the Pyramids where the most impressive that I've seen. They both have a certain monumental scale
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    Which Civ4 Wonders of the World Have You Visited?

    I've been to 18 of these, definitely more then I though eyeballing the list. Civ 4 has a pretty nice list of wonders, its pretty interesting how each game approached the task of deciding what constitutes a wonder and which ones to include. All of Civ 4's wonders are actual places (no cure for...
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    How does one go about acquiring a copy of Civ II these days?

    Civ 1 & 2 are not currently available on any digital store. @Blake00 has a bunch of information here If you want a legal copy your best bet is buying the installation media on ebay. There are usually some pretty cheap copies available. Per the forums rules, we can't link you to any abandonware...
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    Retro Gamer Article: The Making of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

    Thanks for pointing to this Blake! I was able to buy the single issue online for £5 from pocketmags, though that option may be limited geographically
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    Nethog's Civ2 Reference Pack

    Sadly Nethog's hosting has gone offline (some year ago it seems). I took the liberty of grabbing the files from archive.org uploading them to a mirror here: https://civhistory.com/archives/nethog/games.html I messaged @Nethog, and a couple of decades later, he's still around and happy for me...
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    Open source rewrite of the original Civilization game (1991) - OpenCiv1 Project

    I cant answer your question directly but a few thoughts. The copyright for Civ 1 belonged to Microprose. Through a fairly convoluted series of events this wound up with Atari. Atari sold the rights to civilization to Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc who also purchased Firaxis. Its unclear if...
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