Trying to run civ Vanilla.

[tupaclives]

Is it possible to run Civ III Vanilla on an Intel Mac running Leopard?

If so what patch do I need?

My system specs are
Mac OS X 10.5.6
2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor

 

[AlanH]

It doesn't work here. I get a graphics error when I try.

 

[Blue Monkey]

Is it possible to run Civ III Vanilla on an Intel Mac running Leopard?

you could play plain old civ3 on it under xp.

 

[AlanH]

Hmm. I wonder which is easier ...

Option 1:
Buy and install Windows XP under Bootcamp
Buy and install Civ3 for Windows
Reboot into Windows each time you want to play Civ3

Or

Option 2:
Buy and install Civ3 Complete for Mac
Play it

 

[Blue Monkey]

Hmm. I wonder which is easier ...

Option 1:
Buy and install Windows XP under Bootcamp
Buy and install Civ3 for Windows
Reboot into Windows each time you want to play Civ3

Or

Option 2:
Buy and install Civ3 Complete for Mac
Play it

NB:

 

[rufwork]

Hmm. I wonder which is easier ...

Option 1:
Buy and install Windows XP under Bootcamp
Buy and install Civ3 for Windows
Reboot into Windows each time you want to play Civ3

Or

Option 2:
Buy and install Civ3 Complete for Mac
Play it

Well, or alternately partition your box if it's not too new and install a partition solely for 10.4. I've got an iBook still on 10.4 and Civ3.Macsoft works fairly well. Might cut down on the rebooting and, if you had 10.4 already, cut down on the price.

Another option is to pick up an older Mac and play there. Civ3 plain runs on OS 9, even, so an older iBook for your OS 9- games isn't a horrible idea (I've got an old, blue toilet seat for that too).

 

[rio1]

Up till last week, I was playing 1.29f on a lombard...
This week, I have a new/refurb macbookpro running 10.5.6. I installed my CivIII (vanilla I guess you call it) and it surprisingly works. No I haven't finished a game or anything (so maybe it's crashy farther in), just wanted to see what was what or if I had to buy something new.

Sadly though, some of the alterations that were in 1.29f, such as accelerated production and other tweaks I'd grown accustomed to aren't there. Kinda scary needing 30 turns to build a spearman right off the bat! LOL

Was there an osx patch for this vanilla thing? Just curious. I may attempt one of the newer revisions... but I'm tapped out on upgrading software for now (probably for the next decade it seems). Going from 9.2.2. to this ... well, there's a pile of hair next to my chair here... LOL

Cheers

 

[AlanH]

What precise version are you running now? There never was a release 1.29f for Mac. The last vanilla release was 1.29b2. It's compatible with 1.29f for Windows as far as I know, but I don't know of any example of it working on an Intel Mac with Leopard (10.5.x). I guess it's possible that one of the earlier versions works, and if that's what you are running, that may be why you don't have all the features of 1.29f.

If you do have an earlier version, then there's an updater to version 1.29b2 linked in my signature. However, it will probably not run on your current system.

Vanilla died a long time ago when MacSoft stopped supporting it and let their Civ franchise expire. The currently supported version of Civ3 is Civ3 Complete, developed by Aspyr. It is OS X-only, and it runs native on PPC or Intel CPUs.

 

[rio1]

old Lombard Powerbook Mac OS 9.2.2 Civ III 1.29b2 (as you noted, apparently to be equivalent to the aforementioned windows version)

New(er) MacBook Pro 17 2.66ghz OS X 10.5.6 Civ III 1.21g (from the disk)
Dual Intel

Like I said, the 1.21g version works... don't know if the 1.29b2 version would (updater is not to hand to try it out).

Even so, lots and lots of great hours spent with Civ since version 1 here

I'm just plinking, to see what's what in all this new stuff...I was poking about for games and was wondering if what I'd had was Civ III or Civ III complete...

Soooo... when it's time to buy a game... should I just go ahead and jump to Civ IV at this point? Or give Civ III a try as well?