Replay.txt - History of a game as file

[Yashed To]

Hi!

Don't know if this has been posted before (did a site search). I just browsed through my civ directory and came across a file called "replay.txt".

It contains an ASCII map of the current (finished) game, with the location of all cities, and below it a listing of all cities founded, captured, destroyed, first tech discoveries, etc.
For all those years I didn't know, that the "write replay on disc" button at the end of the game creates a simple text file I could simply store away in an archive, arrgh!
There were so many conquests I would just have loved to be archived, sigh! Well, we live and learn ...

I've just included my current file, just for fun. Seems like an * stands for a founded city and a + for a city destroyed. I would be interested if there are any other details I could find in those maps.

Tell me of any other games where you' find something new after 13+ years playing!!!

 

[Baka]

Wow, never knew that. I'd always wondered what the write replay on disk did...

 

[Chieftess]

Yeah, I've seen that a long time ago. Too bad I lost the CD (not to mention it probably won't even work in winXP).

 

[Angelscotboi]

Yeah, I've seen that a long time ago. Too bad I lost the CD (not to mention it probably won't even work in winXP).

Moderator Action: Deleted....we don't advocate piracy here.
Angelscotboi - Warned.
Please read the forum rules: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=422889

 

[Captain Carnage]

but they only have CivNet there. They have other MPS games there, some are protected by ESA but some aren't

 

[Turner]

Moderator Action: People - abondonware is not legal and thus not tolerated at CFC.
Please read the forum rules: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=422889

 

[The Last Conformist]

Um, abandonware is legal, I'm pretty sure. Civilization, however, happens not to be abandonware.

 

[Turner]

From the FAQ section of the link I removed:

But isn't abandonware illegal?

Unfortunately, yes. Despite the fact that publishers no longer derive revenues from these games since they have stopped selling them (and any revenues from retailers that still sell them were gained a long time ago, at the time of sales), it is illegal to distribute them so long as copyright holders have not released them into the public domain, and 95 years after the games' release have not elapsed.

By their own admitance, abandonware is illegal.

In any event, CFC's official policy on the matter is that it is piracy, therefore against site rules. Any discussion of it will not be allowed.

 

[The Last Conformist]

I was of the impression that "abandonware" meant that the copyrightholders had released them into the public domain. Whatever. Civ is still for sale.

 

[steviejay]

I almost bought an extremely old computer once just so I'd have a computer to play the two games which I grew up with........... Civ and Elite2: Frontier

is it possible to run Civ1 on Win98?? cause if it is I can sense a dual partition of my HD coming on this summer..........

 

[Angelscotboi]

I wasnt aware Underdogs was an abandonware site.

I was pretty sure they only hosted which they were allowed to do so.

If im wrong then I apologise for posting the link. Sorry.

 

[Captain Carnage]

is it possible to run Civ1 on Win98?? cause if it is I can sense a dual partition of my HD coming on this summer..........

I might run a bit slow in windows, but if you go into DOS then it should run fine