Lord_Hill
Prince
@Blake00 Yeah, at some point this thread sort of morphed into the "lets try and do graphics mods in as many versions as possible" thread, I do intend to return to the original goal of a big old table of differences. The unique PC-98 version was a pleasant surprise indeed compared to the very faithful Mac, Amiga and ST ports. I'm glad I persevered with getting it to run smoothly, it would have been easy to just skip that one due to the challenges of working with DOS in a different language!
Another very obvious difference, the Atari ST version ditches the classic Civ intro music and replaces it with a rather haunting chip tune that makes it sound like I'm about to play a sci-fi themed JRPG or something. Presumably they felt the ST sound hardware wouldn't do the classic tune justice, but I was shocked the first time I fired it up with the sound on.
I didn't create that youtube video btw, just did a quick search for it.
Another very obvious difference, the Atari ST version ditches the classic Civ intro music and replaces it with a rather haunting chip tune that makes it sound like I'm about to play a sci-fi themed JRPG or something. Presumably they felt the ST sound hardware wouldn't do the classic tune justice, but I was shocked the first time I fired it up with the sound on.
I didn't create that youtube video btw, just did a quick search for it.