Restore Saves Without Rebooting. Fantastic if it was possible !

[bigbernie59]

Hello.

I played CIV 1 on Amiga for 25 years. It's over. No more Amiga.
Civ 1 on PC REQUIRES the use of DosBox.
I've ALWAYS played on Super Genius difficulty, which requires saving and resuming saves 200 times per game.I lose a match, I start again. Any loose accepted !

The huge flaw of Civ 1 has always been the requirement to quit CIV and then reboot.
I think this is the only game in the entire universe where the save mechanism doesn't work within the game.

On Amiga, it took less than 10 seconds.
With DosBox, you MUST quit everything and completely restart DosBox and Civ. Doing this 200 times per game is impossible.
Is there a way, a patch, an add-on, a trick, a crack, that would allow you to restore a save WITHOUT QUITTING CIV?
I think it's impossible. But I post. Miracles are sometimes possible.
Thank you very much.

 

[GPR]

Very strange post.
I think the forum needs better protection against AI bots.
Hmm...
There is no such thing on Amiga like "Super Genius" difficulty. Is emperror. This same like on PC game.

"saving and resuming saves 200 times per game" ???
This is trolling or what?

 

[Lord_Hill]

Agreed, it's clearly a nonsense post, but might as well set the record straight anyway.

-You do not need to quit everything and restart dosbox, but you do need to quit the game and return to the dos prompt then start it up again. You can do this without closing dosbox.
-The hardest difficulty is emperor whatever version you use
-You cannot load a game after starting play on amiga either and must quit and restart just like dos.
-There is in fact an experimental EXE hack that is part of the JCivEd mod tool which does allow loading a game during play. I haven't used it much so can't say whether there are any downsides to using it.

 

[bigbernie59]

Thanks

Level emperor was a joke.

-You cannot load a game after starting play on amiga either and must quit and restart just like dos.

Not only using PC DOS. Using Amiga DOS too.

Even further back. With the Atari Tramiel TOS, I could play Dungeon Master without having to exit the game. Beyond the steel sky too. Etc etc.....
Designed by Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley, the original Civilization is widely considered one of the greatest turn-based strategy games of all time.
I have no idea why this fantastic game, and given that the CIV editor still exists, didn't have a Windows version.
You can't even buy it. GOG doesn't offer it.

Let's just say it really bothers me to have to restart it to re-enter the saves.
A+

 

[GPR]

This really seems like chat GPT bot.

If you want improve game loading you must change one dosbox file.
In file "DOSBox 0.74-3 Options" I added to the end:

MOUNT M C:\DOS
M:
CD civ475.1
civ.EXE

As you see my dosbox folder for game is located on C partition and there is in it catalog civilization game named "civ475.1"

Then, when I click shortcut of dosbox, dosbox right away turns on for me game civilization.