Old games on new computers

lvdz

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Dears,

Would someone know how to run old games on recent computers, such as Civilization 1 and Civilization 2? The OS I have in mind are Win7 and MacOsX.

Thank you in advance.

Lvdz
 
For old games in general: you can use DOSbox for dosgames. Old windows games: sometimes it works in compatibilty mode. Otherwise install Linux and try to use wine.
 
If you have a version of an earlier Windows, I've had a bit of luck installing it in VirtualBox. Though it might not work. Can't say for certain.
 
Thanks for the feedback, I'll check that out. Also I've noticed some information available on civ1 and civ2 forums as well, sorry for the duplicate.
 
With Civilization I though, you'll need to use Dosbox or a virtual PC of some kind.

That's indeed what is usually advised in the civ1 forum. Thanks for your answer.

Synsensa said:
Some old games have community patches to work with newer OS systems.

Which seems to be a quite common way to make civ2 work, as Bud2998 mentions. Thank you too.
 
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