But, other than to make available in retail and playable on Modern computers - something GoG and Steam do commonly, but inexplicably has not been done with a classic like Civ2, it doesn't seem the majority of posters on the Civ2 sub-forums here on CivFanatics, at least - certainly not on the Scenario League - wants, or needs, that.
Civ2 is perfectly playable on a modern Win11 PC. But it would be great if it was sold in stores again.
I think putting a bunch of Civ2 content in a single package, adding a built-in mod interface accessible to casual audiences, creating high resolution animated art that could layer on top of the base engine, adding built-in multiplayer networking features including matchmaking, and selling it on modern platforms would do amazing things for Civ2 without harming the existing Civ2 community.
They might not want that but other players might want it, as shown in this topic. But as I said, I don't think Firaxis wants that. They are committed with Civ7 and the wish to sell it more, as well as the choices they have made for the entire series since at least Civ5.
Civ3 is the earliest game available on Steam. I rebought Civ3 (and Civ4) on Steam after Microsoft stopped supporting the SecureROM copy protection scheme used on their CDs in Windows 7. The only "issue" playing Civ3 on modern Windows versions is the hard limit on its screen resolution. Just before I boot it, I manually set my laptop screen to a coarser resolution so the game will run. I restore it after exiting the game.
You forgot to replace the most antediluvian feature of Civ 2: There is only one movement sound for all kind of units, a simple clack, clack sound. Of course this sound can be replaced by one different sound, per example the infantry marching sound of the barracks, but moving jetplanes with the sound of marching infantry is not fitting, too. Even in ToTPP an enmovement trigger in lua is missing.
Actually, in ToT, you can select a .wav file by name for each unit with a feature near the bottom of the rules.txt files (though planes and jets crashing and sputtering remain the same, yes, but can be replaced, wholesale by overwriting the files of the same name), and the sounds for building improvements can just be overwritten by a file of the same name.You forgot to replace the most antediluvian feature of Civ 2: There is only one movement sound for all kind of units, a simple clack, clack sound. Of course this sound can be replaced by one different sound, per example the infantry marching sound of the barracks, but moving jetplanes with the sound of marching infantry is not fitting, too. Even in ToTPP an enmovement trigger in lua is missing.
These are the sounds for units in a battle, but not for a movement without a battle. For normal movement there is the Movpiece.wav (clack, clack) in the Sound folder. This file can be overwritten, but results in only one different sound for all kind of units during normal movement.
I have not heard any clamour on the Civ2 subforums for a, "move without battle," sound file. In fact, that sounds like it would get very tedious, quickly, in the context of Civ2.
It was discussed at several locations in the Civ 2 forums at CFC, per example here in the ToTPP thread by Prof.Garfield (Chapter of that post: Addition: Sound file swapping. E.g. changing the movement sound when different units are active).
They can't just build a custom DoS machine? It ran on a 486. Surely you could put an entire virtual machine inside of a 64-bit application. The value of doing this would be that you could apply as-is mods even if the file is 30 years old.
You build a custom DoS machine with optimized virtual memory. You go into the Civ 2 code and don't change a thing other than every time the application adds a sprite to its world window, you insert a call that sends that information outside of the virtual machine. In effect, Civ 2 is running virtually without any changes, but all the discrete graphical and audio actions are exported to the remaster application which then builds its own graphical interface. You could click a button that displays the classical interface.
Civ2 was not released for DoS. Civ1 and the original Colonization were, but the first release of Civ2 was for Windows 95.
Same difference. I believe there was a 3.1 version. I remember running Civ 2 in DoS box and 3.1 runs on DoS architecture doesn't it? Either way, same difference. How hard could it be to make a custom console just for Civ 2? I'm sure there are already out of the box solutions that at worst just have to have their memory parameters customized.
Thanks! I was doubting myself there for a while, because I was sure I played it before I had a computer that could run win 95.
I was today years old to learn it is a shield symbol. I always thought it was just a circle.
A hammer would have been more obvious, but maybe it didnt work with low res graphics used in Civ 1.
That's hardly clamouring and screaming for it.
