audsquad
Chieftain
I went to one of the Apple stores in Denver tonight -- just in case -- and of course they did not have it yet....
C3C-mac ships tomorrow! (Dec14)
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wallyskier
Chieftain
waltham845 said:
I still have Civ I on one computer, though it crashes all the time, though I still try to play. The smiling Genghis Khan is always good for a laugh, though the victory/defeat music gets annoying after a while.
I didn't play that game exactly. I played an earlier version on a mainframe in the mid-70s.audsquad said:
Hey, speaking of old Civ-like computer games, here's one that predates all of the aforementioned (I think). When I was in high school in the late 1970s, a friend of mine (whose dad worked for NASA) had one of those early Tandy personal computers from Radio Shack -- the kind with a *cassette* drive -- and they had a game very much like Civ (though also very primitive in comparison) called Hammurabi. You, the player, were Hammurabi, and you had to decide how many bushels of wheat to use to feed your people, how much to save for seed to plant for next year's crop, and how much to use to buy more land. That was about it, and I think it was all text-based, no graphics to speak of, and yet it was still quite addicting and we would play until the wee hours on a regular basis. One key was to predict when a "plague" would occur and wipe out half your population. Ah, the days.... Anyone else ever play that one, though?
(What are we, a bunch of recovering alkies reminiscing about our old favorite bottles of booze?)
k-a-bob
Waiting patiently.......
audsquad said:
Hey, speaking of old Civ-like computer games, here's one that predates all of the aforementioned (I think). When I was in high school in the late 1970s, a friend of mine (whose dad worked for NASA) had one of those early Tandy personal computers from Radio Shack -- the kind with a *cassette* drive -- and they had a game very much like Civ (though also very primitive in comparison) called Hammurabi. You, the player, were Hammurabi, and you had to decide how many bushels of wheat to use to feed your people, how much to save for seed to plant for next year's crop, and how much to use to buy more land. That was about it, and I think it was all text-based, no graphics to speak of, and yet it was still quite addicting and we would play until the wee hours on a regular basis. One key was to predict when a "plague" would occur and wipe out half your population. Ah, the days.... Anyone else ever play that one, though?
(What are we, a bunch of recovering alkies reminiscing about our old favorite bottles of booze?
Yes - that was the first computer game I ever played. It was on a TRaSh 80!
That was very addictive. I remember feeding my people so little food the first turn I played, that everyone died.
ROFL!
ok it is jan 8th...the date when i at least read that it would be out. anyone know if it is? i have to drive an hour just to get it so i do not want to do that and then have to murder innocent people out of frustration of not being able to play this game!! AAARRRGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
(by the way, i played a somewhat similar text game back in the day called zork. it wasn't a startegy game, it was kind of like myst with no graphics. good times)
(by the way, i played a somewhat similar text game back in the day called zork. it wasn't a startegy game, it was kind of like myst with no graphics. good times)
The game is 'Shipping', according to Aspyr's web site project summary. It's not yet 'In Store'.
Mine's on order from Amazon, so I'll just wait for it to arrive on the door step. But if I had to drive for an hour to get it I would be tempted to use an old fashioned tellyphone before setting out to check whether it's in stock.
Mine's on order from Amazon, so I'll just wait for it to arrive on the door step. But if I had to drive for an hour to get it I would be tempted to use an old fashioned tellyphone before setting out to check whether it's in stock.
Option 1:
Two cocoa tins and a piece of string. Person A speaks. Person B listens and then replies. You have to keep the string tight, and make sure you've smoothed off the cut edges of the tins to avoid chopping your ear off.
Option 2:
Small machine with buttons and expensive contract with phone network operator.
Option 2 tends to work better over longer distances.
Two cocoa tins and a piece of string. Person A speaks. Person B listens and then replies. You have to keep the string tight, and make sure you've smoothed off the cut edges of the tins to avoid chopping your ear off.
Option 2:
Small machine with buttons and expensive contract with phone network operator.
Option 2 tends to work better over longer distances.
damnit i want civ now! i was excited about the december release date because i had three weeks off from work for the holidays (which ends tomorrow just in time for a civ release) bastards! i'm gonna take it out on the french when i get the game.
iamliberal
Prince
Omg, i cracked up when i heard "jones'n for a fix" lol
i also laughed about having 3 weeks off to play and it not arrived yet, that's happened to me in the past with game releases.
speaking of old games... my first civ-type game was on my old Atari 800xl computer, remember those? the game was "Seven Cities of Gold" and i loved it. actually sid meir's "Colonization" was very similar to it, and i wish they'd make a new version of colonization.
but nothing topped Civilization 1 on my Commodore Amiga computer! woot!
i also laughed about having 3 weeks off to play and it not arrived yet, that's happened to me in the past with game releases.
speaking of old games... my first civ-type game was on my old Atari 800xl computer, remember those? the game was "Seven Cities of Gold" and i loved it. actually sid meir's "Colonization" was very similar to it, and i wish they'd make a new version of colonization.
but nothing topped Civilization 1 on my Commodore Amiga computer! woot!
Blue Monkey
Archon Without Portfolio
Back in the dark days of the last century, when computers ran on vacuum tubes, i used to draw maps of imaginary worlds, and wish there was a way to make tiny people move around on them, so I could watch the world I made change, instead of just reading about somebody else's imaginary world in a book.
MAS
Deity
Blue Monkey
Archon Without Portfolio
Gee, I was thinking more about creating Mods for Civ. I dream worlds, not cities.
Blue Monkey said:
haha i used to do that too. i also used to draw mazes and pretend i was a little dude running around trying to figure out how to get out of there. thank god for metroid.
yep....i predict civ will be available tomorrow just in time for me not to have time to go get the game. first day back to work...seems about right. i'm working on an album right now and i foresee much delay in its completion mwa ha ha ha ha ha ha!
p.s. i have read here and there that edited games crash in osx tiger....anyone know if this is true? i guess you couldn't know since c3c isn't even out yet...i'm a dumbass. where's my lobster suit?
dojoboy
Tsalagi
My first computer game was Strategic Conquest on a LCII. It's a turn-based game made by Delta Tao, and it is still out there - just a much more recent version. You and the AI start out w/ x number of cities and begin building up your military in search of the enemy. Along the way, you come across neutral cities which you should assimilate before the enemy. There were 15 difficulty levels. I payed mostly on level 12, but did win once or twice on the higher levels - just too damn tough.
dojoboy
Tsalagi
Drahkkael said:
I'm sure it's still fun, but it isn't very pretty. And, it's over priced IMHO. I would get it, just for old times. But, it isn't OSX native. Delta Tao also made Sapceward Ho!
Brad Oliver
Civ3/4 Mac programmer
Drahkkael said:
Are you talking about the new Aspyr version? If so, can you point me to "here and there" so I can investigate?
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