Question about getting new disks

[Zerbean]

The floppy's I have of Civ have bad clusters on them. I have looked around at all the computer stores around me but none have any of the original game. Can anyone tell me where I can get a new one, or if Microprose would send me a new copy since mine have bad clusters? Thanks in advance

 

[stwils]

I don't know about Microprose having any floppies left.

But if you can find a sealed copy of the October issue of Computer Games, it has a CD enclosed that has Civ1 for Windows on it.

Hope you can find it. I have just recently gotten Civ1 (via Computer Games magazine) after trying to play Civ2 first. I love Civ1!

It is truly classic.

stwils

 

[Zerbean]

Ok thanks... i'll take a look for it... I know how good Civ I is.. used to play it a lot, but for some reason like i said... my disks aquired some bad clusters... no idea how but they did...

 

[GenghisK]

and then if you can't find the concerned magazine, then go back to me... I think I can help you by several ways

 

[Zwelgje]

If you own an official copy of the game its perfectly legal to download the game from internet. I think there are enough people here who can tell you where to find a download site or who will mail it to you. Of course when the discs you own are copies themselves, it's not legal for you to download the game from internet......

 

[Zerbean]

They are official copies. Bought almost right after it first came out

 

[stormerne]

If your machine has no CD drive on it (like my Civ1 machine), you could buy a CD (which are really cheap now) and load it onto another machine. Then transfer the files onto two floppies, put them on your target machine from floppy, and erase the files from the transfer machine.

 

[GenghisK]

Thanks Stormerne, but well, huh, the problem is fixed now
He learnt to use hotline and everything is all right now.

 

[Aryx]

Another one bought Civ1 to Amiga in 1991. Donno how long after it hit the stores, but I hell I got impressed when I saw an article in a mag. It was a competition just like Hall of fame here on Civfanatics!!! Paradoxly the great civers won a strategy guide....
However I couldn't save any games the first year (What do you expect of a eleven-year-old boy), so I had a hard time of hitting the modern era... with the impressing techs and a fully built palace!, or the english manual (I'd been studying english for 1,5 years)....

...but it is not until now I've been able to fully play my type of strategy. Culural victory rules!!!

 

[Doubtful Teeks]

When I first played CivI I didn't know how to save manually, so I had to wait for the autosave. My father would stand over me waiting for me to get done, only to see me press "Escape" be accident, and then wait another eternity.