Civ on the Amiga...

[danedwardsuk]

Microprose was pure quality.

QFT. I bought anything with the Microprose name on it - all the best games were from them Pirates, Gunship, Colonization, Silent Service and of course Civ1.

There was also the original Railroad Tycoon of course!

Civ1 on the Amiga - now there is a childhood memory!

 

[Zalcron]

civ on c64? u guys are kidding right? i thought it was pushing it on my trusty amiga 500!! can u guys offer any proof as i am very sceptical (no offence)

I still remember playing civ for the first time i was 15 and intialy i thought "WTH! i dont understand any of this!" but after getting to grips with it i was hooked (until civ 2 in 96 at least)

 

[Willem]

There was also the original Railroad Tycoon of course!

Railroad Tycoon was a great game, to bad the sequels were such pale imitations. I have RRT 3 now and I just can't get into it, it's totally missing the spark the original used to have for me. I wonder why Sid let someone else do the sequels, that was originally his game as well.

 

[nexus2000]

civ on c64? u guys are kidding right? i thought it was pushing it on my trusty amiga 500!! can u guys offer any proof as i am very sceptical (no offence)

I still remember playing civ for the first time i was 15 and intialy i thought "WTH! i dont understand any of this!" but after getting to grips with it i was hooked (until civ 2 in 96 at least)

I owned a C64 and I'm 99% certain that Civ never came out for this machine. I'm fairly certain that Micropose released the game for the Amiga back in 91. This was the first machine that I remember playing this game on. I've done alot of research online and I cant find any reference to Civ on the C64. Now Pirates definately came out on the C64 as I remember playing that. If anyone can post a link to prove that Civ was on the C64??? I Still say StarGlider II was the best game ever on the Amiga

 

[Wolfwood]

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

You probably were, unless you let your siblings play it too...

But I also did play the game on MY Amiga back in the day... I guess there's no hope of getting Civ4 on the new/upcoming PPC Amigas?

 

[EdCase]

The "new/upcoming" Amigas are (sorry to say) not really worth the bother. The amigaone once put together is basically a sub par PC wannabe. The Amiga is simply not able to compete anymore.

Incidentally yes I did play Civ 1 on a multitude of amiga's staring with a 1000 and right through to the 4000. I loved my miggys.

First computer...Hmmm that would be a zx80? (not zx81) the one that preceded the zx81 and came as a kit...yup I'm old

 

[MetHimPikeHoses]

I played CivI on a 386 for years. Well, until Civ2 came out anyway. I have been playing civ now for half of my 28 years, like an earlier poster. Right before CivI came out, My father brought home the 386 to replace the 8086 and those freeware arcade-style games I was always playing. Oh, and Oregon Trail...

Is original Civ available online anywhere?

 

[Watchy]

I did too. Amiga 500 all the way. Then I switched to Colonization on my Amiga 1200. Those were the days *sigh*.

Ah, colonization, I loved that game as well, isn't time it got an update? I tried to play it some time ago, but the graphics just kills my eyes on the bigger monitors you have these days. <-- My eyes

 

[Padma]

Moderator Action: Thread moved. Not a Civ4 discussion.

 

[Yarmoss]

You dont need a monitor to use an Amiga though. The fantastic thing about them was that they plugged straight into the aireal port of your TV. You just tuned a spare channel in to be your "Amiga channel".

My dad bought me my Amiga 500 back in '91 I think, with a 14" TV to go with it. While the 500 died a long time ago I still use the 14" Tv nearly every day

I still have my A1200 at my parents house somewhere though its mouse has died, and it was impossible to find a replacement mouse for it. The computer works fine though.

Im tempted to find an emulator and get my 1200 with my current computer just so that I can play Colonization again. Man that was a great game

 

[777]

Damn, I didn't have Civ on the Amiga nor c64 but even if I would had I wouldn't understand a heck about a game since I was about 9 or 10 I just played velocipede and centipede

And weird killing game on c64 what I've tried to look so far without a result, which reminds me to ask if anyone knows: I can't remember game but it started from city street, it was c64 game, you had a guy who had loads of guns with him. At the streets there was walking old ladies and some sort of criminal guys and you could shoot who ever you wanted to. If you shot old lady she would hack you with her purse you could enter building and there was also people to kill. Damn I don't know what purpose of that game or what you had to do in it 'cos I was too young to understand complex games

 

[potto]

Ah yes I played Civ 1 on my Amiga 500 all those years ago after seeing it on my friends Atari ST... took me a while to get my head around the concept though. Then fast forward a decade and I came across Civ III in the shops for the PC (I had just recently built my parents a PC without ever owning a PC myself!) and got hooked again.

To me Railroad Tycoon on the Amiga was the first of these types of games that got me hooked (then sim city) and like the previous post mentions I just couldnt get into the latest editions of Railroad Tycoon... RRT3 held the most promise but just wast the same, I prefered the originals CIV approach of starting from year 0 and letting you get on with it competing against other opponents to expand a rail empire rather than all the silly restricted scenarios.

Remember fondly Speedball II, Xenon II, Sensible Soccer, Robocod II, Lemmings, F1GP, Flashback, New Zealand Story, F18 Interceptor, Lotus Turbo Challenge... great stuff, the golden era?

 

[FriendlyFire]

A2000 Civ on a HUGE 20Meg HDD

i rememeber I had to write my own custom "startup sequence" in order to free enough ram to get it running properly.
Revolutionary at the time along with Dune 2.