Civ on the Amiga...

[Smidlee]

I'm pretty sure Civilization didn't come out for C-64 since if it did I would have bought it. At that time C-64 was dying out having less games made for it. IIRC I got married about the time Civ came out and couldn't afford buying a new PC. So I was stuck with my C-64 for many year in the 90's. I didn't get to play Civ until it came out on Super Nintendo. I play civ on Super Nintendo more than all the other games put together on this console.
I do remember playing a game like GalCiv on C-64 called "Reach for the Stars" though. I used to played that game a lot.

 

[thordk]

civ on amiga? i got myself a "brandnew" 386 for civ

oh, and the c64 had a tape drive. floppy drives were avaible pretty soon though. with an incredible space of 180 kb per side!

 

[Willem]

The C64 did use tape. I can remember playing many games on this machine. Although I believe a disk drive was available as a seperate add on but I could never afford it.

I stand corrected. By the time I got mine, tape drives were obsolete and disk drives were standard.

Seing as we are all talking about old computers I though I'd ask if anyone remembers the Sinclair Zx81?

Yes I remember, it was actually my first computer. However it was a gift from my brother and only lasted a week after I got it, so I don't really count it as such.

 

[Znabel15]

And were you also 14? That would mean you, just like me, have been playing Civs for half my life now!

Yes, I was 13 or 14 as far as I can remember...

 

[Willem]

I'm pretty sure Civilization didn't come out for C-64 since if it did I would have bought it. At that time C-64 was dying out having less games made for it.

It was towards the end of the 64's life that I got my copy, the Amiga had already been out for quite awhile and 386's were available. It was a pirate copy too that I got from my brother, maybe that had something to do with it.

 

[Znabel15]

civ on amiga? i got myself a "brandnew" 386 for civ

oh, and the c64 had a tape drive. floppy drives were avaible pretty soon though. with an incredible space of 180 kb per side!

WOW! Big Spender!!!
Did you also get that 1000$ single-speed CD-ROM once it came out?
A friend of mine got that for what I believe was a 286.
BUT: he didn`t just get the CD-ROM, it was bundeled with a crappy sound card. So he basically got a 500 dollar CD-Rom AND a 500 dollar soundcard.
But they were state of the art....
Imagine what you could get with 1000$ nowadays...

 

[THARN]

I remember buying 1/2 meg of ram for my Amiga 500 to make it run at 1 full Meg.
cost $130.00 - nowadays $130.00 gets you 1 GIG of dual channel ram..
progress is a beautiful thing.

and so was the Amiga.

 

[Biffa]

I started off with the Amiga 1200 which had the extra ram as standard and played Civ 1 alllll dayyyy looooong.

Now, as well as Civ IV on my PC, I have an Amiga emulator on my Palm T3 and play Civ 1 again

 

[thordk]

BUT: he didn`t just get the CD-ROM, it was bundeled with a crappy sound card.

so has been mine. cd-rom drives didn't had standard interfaces back then. commonly they had a panasonic, sony, etc. interface and those interface were implemented on sound cards.
EIDE cd-drive came pretty late. but 386 had no EIDE support... noticed this after some days of cursing this stupid cheap bought 2x drive for not working

 

[cthom]

Me too. Started out playing it on the Commodore 64 though. Yes I'm old.

WHAT? i first played it on the a500, what was it like on the c64? i'm 46 btw...

 

[Smidlee]

WHAT? i first played it on the a500, what was it like on the c64? i'm 46 btw...

I'm pretty sure "Red Strom Rising" (modern sub sim) was the last game came out for C-64 from Mircoprose in late 80's. I bought any game that had the Microprose name on it including Pirates. (the only reason I got Pirates and was surprised how much I like it) They even mention then they were having trouble crunching their games down to only 64k. IIRC A different branch of Microprose did continue developing game for the C-64 a little afterwards named Mircoplay. Microplay games wasn't nowhere near the quality of Mircoprose one were. By the time Civ came out, Mircoprose (including Microplay) had totally lefted C-64.

 

[cthom]

i'm amazed they got Pirates on the c64. On a side line, I bought my dad (78 y.o) a plug-in c64 joystick tv add-on with 32 games for £13! (winter olympics always cracks me up- the music )

 

[Zelpo]

<-- Another (previous) Commadore owner. I can remember in the early 80's mowing lawns for a few weeks to get a tape drive for my VIC20. I think that thing had a whole 3.5k of RAM lmao. Later on I graduated to an Apple ][e, and while there were plenty of games for that, I can't recall if Civ was available or not.

 

[Tavenier]

Talking Oldskool, does anybody remember the MSX (1&2)? It was a machine a bit like the Amiga, only less popular.
And I also had a Vectrex game computer. Still have it, by the way. A computer with the screen attached to it and for every game-cartidge you inserted you had to change a slider in front of the screen!

I was a relatvie late-comer on C64 (I am 28 now) so I had a relatively modern version. I also had a cartidge which to insert on the back of the machine which gave it more power. And I also had a slot for cartidges on it on top of the machine. I had a game called the Goonies (named after the movie) as a cartidge.

Come to think of it, can anyone tell me what the first time was you heard a voice on a computergame? I remember a pacman game on the MSX on the datarecorder. When your pacman was hit by the ghosts you heard: Oh, ****!!! The game was even called Oh, ****!!! because of that. Loading the datarecorder and it read: "Found: Oh, ****!!!" on my screen.

 

[Denniz]

Just wondering: Am I the only one here who have played Civ1 on my Amiga?

I play Civ1 on an Amiga 1000.

 

[Lobox]

I'm pretty sure "Red Strom Rising" (modern sub sim) was the last game came out for C-64 from Mircoprose in late 80's. I bought any game that had the Microprose name on it including Pirates. (the only reason I got Pirates and was surprised how much I like it) They even mention then they were having trouble crunching their games down to only 64k. IIRC A different branch of Microprose did continue developing game for the C-64 a little afterwards named Mircoplay. Microplay games wasn't nowhere near the quality of Mircoprose one were. By the time Civ came out, Mircoprose (including Microplay) had totally lefted C-64.

Red Storm Rising where a superb game. I bought Pirates of the same reason as you and played it superlots. Microprose was pure quality.

Sadly I havent got hooked on the new Pirates.

 

[nexus2000]

Yes I remember, it was actually my first computer. However it was a gift from my brother and only lasted a week after I got it, so I don't really count it as such.

Ahhhh yes the good old ZX81 How I miss that touch sensative keyboard and that wobbly massive 16k Ram upgrade that would crash the system out if you accidently moved the machine. I still actually have mine burried in my attic along with my original Spectrum 48k. Anybody remember the Spectrum classic called Manic Minor? I use to love that game! And lets not forget the very first JR Tolkien adventure game for the spectrum The Hobbit by software maker Mellbourne House. It was a graphic and text base adventure game. I was stuck in the underground prison cell with Thor for weeks before I figured out how to get out of there.

As for the person who mentioned the first game that had digitial or digitized speech on a home computer I think it was a game called Qbert and I think it was on the Sinclair QL ?? Now while I admit my memory is a little misty on the subject I do remeber playing this early 3d game and being aww struck at hearing a voice during this game? but to be honest I cant remember if it was the QL or the C64??

The Amiga 500 was one hell of a machine and to this day it remains my all time favorite computer. It was way ahead of anything on the market at that time and and was a fantastic gaming machine it also looked real cool! Does anyone remember Starglider 1 & 2 by Rainbird ? The second version had me hooked for months I even lost a girlfriend because of this game ..LOLOL Also while we are on the subject of old computers does anyone remember the Commodore CD32? The first Cd powered game console? I actualy had one of these machines along with the FMV expansion pack that slotted into the rear of the machine. I fondly remember this machine and I wish I still had it (getting all misty eyed now)

 

[BrianDH]

Another ex-Amiga user - 500, 1200 & 2000.
Didn't play Civ on it tho' - I'm a late comer to Civ.
Yep - I remember Starglider.

I still have a working image of my Amiga 2000 and its huge 200Mb hard disk on my current PC. There's a free system called WinUAE which lets you emulate the Amiga at near full PC speed, practically everything works and you can even access PC resources: sound, graphics, CD/Disks/Internet connection the lot. Full PC resolution Amiga anyone?

You do need an old working Amiga so you can suck the ROM off it (if you'll pardon the expression).

 

[cthom]

Also while we are on the subject of old computers does anyone remember the Commodore CD32? The first Cd powered game console? I actualy had one of these machines along with the FMV expansion pack that slotted into the rear of the machine. I fondly remember this machine and I wish I still had it (getting all misty eyed now)

i bought one almost as soon as it came out. i then networked it to my a500, in effect giving it a cd drive.

 

[Willem]

I play Civ1 on an Amiga 1000.

You mean you still play or you did play. If you still have a working Amiga 1000, you should set up a museum.