RELEASE: Civilization Classics Installer and Extractor for Modern PC's!

[Blake00]

This is a copy and paste from Thorn's thread at Apolyton as I only just saw this.. this looks pretty freaky and even includes 16 bit compatibility layers and music track conversions, hopefully some folks can test this and see how it goes!
https://apolyton.net/forum/civiliza...ssics-installer-and-extractor-for-modern-pc-s

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RELEASE BELOW:

As I don't have an account at CivFanatics, feel free for someone to let them know, but I've put 6 months into this installer, still fine-tuning a small amount of bugs. The point of this installer is to make as close as a legal installer/extractor for the following games as possible:

• Sid Meier's Civilization
• Sid Meier's CivNet
• Sid Meier's Civilization II: Multiplayer Gold Edition
• Sid Meier's Civilization: Test of Time

I've tried to make this a dummy proof as possible, while allowing for using multiple types of backup mediums, such as the original discs, disc images, ripped archives, etc....if you haven't made copies of your backup mediums there are places to find such things on the web, but lets not discuss that here.


The plan here is to get momentum and fixes enough that Good Old Games (GoG) may be able to release a Commerical version of (also much easier to use version) of this at some point!

I have it under the following CC BY-NC-SA License right now so:

• BY: credit must be given to the creator(s).
• NC: Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted.
• SA: Adaptations must be shared under the same terms.

Any suggestions or problems let me know, you can additionally leave information or issues on github.

As far as the original modders work everything is in progress of being credited properally.

Hopefully, I'll be done with the First Release Candidate Preview Series in a week. Please report problems, so I can do this!
https://github.com/Draythianna/Civilization-Classics-Collection

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[Blake00]

@JarJarBInks maybe give this guys installer a go with a ToT CD image or original CD (via a USB CD drive).

 

[JarJarBInks]

thank you for letting me know about this!

 

[Blake00]

thank you for letting me know about this!

No worries mate, good luck! Oh and funnily enough the creator of this installer Thorn has just shown up on the Civ2 discord so I'm trying to get him off Poly and over to here to join. He also just asked about if anyone's ever tried to create custom animating ToT units like Microprose did and I linked him to your new thread about it. So it sounds like he'll be interested in what you're doing and because of your technical problems getting ToT patched and working you'll be interested in his installer (that he's prob looking for testers for), so you guys should prob have a chat at some point haha!

 

[JarJarBInks]

Good idea, do you have the link to civ 2 discord?

 

[Quintillus]

Good idea, do you have the link to civ 2 discord?

I can't help with that, but the next-best option to Thorn joining here would be to have the discussion at Apolyton, whether that's in the original thread or elsewhere in the Civ2 sub-forum there. Discord is like IRC - convenient for quick conversation, not great for long-term knowledge preservation.

 

[Blake00]

Are you guys on a phone or using a forum theme that makes links hard to see or something? The discord link its literally right there in my post above, maybe I should have bolded it lol.
Also JarJar I just replied to you in another thread where you talked about no instructions when I'd previously linked them to you so you need to look a bit closer at my posts as I'm giving you in the information you need. If you can't see the links in my posts maybe change your selected forum theme to one using different colours.

I'm not sure if posting on Apolyton is good for long term knowledge preservation, things aren't looking good there. Hopefully he'll come here!
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[JarJarBInks]

oh sorry didn't see that. thanks