What Brought You Here and To [Enter Favorite Civilization Game Here] - Page 2

Provost Harrison · November 14, 2002, 15:11

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Originally posted by Tuberski
Started playing Civ in 93 when I was in the Navy on the Amiga-damn slowwwwww.....

Yes, similar time for me, I used to play it on an old Atari ST, damn was it slow, and you had to do all that floppy disk swapping

It is amazing what luxury the PC version seemed...

Skanky Burns · November 14, 2002, 21:20

At least with my Tandy 1000 I had a harddrive. But at 3mhz, it took forever for it to generate a world. With no mouse, moving and clicking on things were a true joy as well.

Dauphin · November 14, 2002, 22:36

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it took forever for it to generate a world

My version only generated about 4 different worlds. Kind of annoying, but by no means the most annoying feature of trying to play Civ1 on such a museum piece as the Amiga.

Tuberski · November 14, 2002, 23:07

Playing on the Civ 1 on the Amiga, it makes me laugh when people complain about how slow Civ 3 is.

ACK!

Dis · November 14, 2002, 23:42

I first registered here in April of 1999. Shortly after SMAC came out. I first went to the offical alpha.owo boards that was listed in the manual I think. And people over there mentioned Apolyton. they said Apolyton was a bunch of losers. But I came anyways

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Skanky Burns · November 15, 2002, 00:25

Mine would routinely crash trying to generate a new world, or if it didn't, it would go throught the entire introductory sequence and then have a flashing message "Generating World" for an additional 15 minutes.

spartak · November 15, 2002, 05:26

What brough me here?

Wind.

Dauphin · November 15, 2002, 12:16

Don't eat so many baked beans.

tniem · November 15, 2002, 12:52

Civ I on my old computer took a good half hour to generate a new world. Many times I would start a game and save it and then play that save a couple different times. It wasn't ideal as you already knew what the map would look like and where everyone was but it saved a lot of time waiting for a new world to generate when you just wanted to play some civ.

Provost Harrison · November 15, 2002, 16:30

Yes, the ST must have had some pre-generated maps in there. After a while of playing civ I suddenly realised, "Hey, I've played this map before!"...and hell even if you picked a different map type, it would just add and replace bits of land or change terrain types

Dauphin · November 15, 2002, 18:55

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Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Mine would routinely crash trying to generate a new world, or if it didn't, it would go throught the entire introductory sequence and then have a flashing message "Generating World" for an additional 15 minutes.

I could never skip the intro, it would have been so annoying if I wasn't used to Amstrad cassette games that took upto 30 minutes to load.

The music was good though.

Provost Harrison · November 15, 2002, 20:27

On the ST I could skip most of the intro but it would require precision timing and knowing exactly when to 'click'

Provost Harrison · November 15, 2002, 20:28

God, weren't old computers awful when you think about it and get past that fake veneer of nostalgia...

Dauphin · November 15, 2002, 23:04

Whats scary is that those computers are to the Apollo programme computers as computers in ten years are to them.

phoenixcager · November 16, 2002, 10:04

Prior to coming here, I had played civ, col and civ2, and was just beginning on C:CtP. I was kind of getting stuck in my games and ended up searching the web for strategies, which brought me to Apolyton's strategy pages. After reading them for a few weeks(?), someone posted that Apolyton also had forums. I visited out of curiosity, and have been here ever since.

Provost Harrison · November 16, 2002, 12:21

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Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
Whats scary is that those computers are to the Apollo programme computers as computers in ten years are to them.

I've been reading that one over and over again and I still don't get what you are trying to say

Hercules · November 16, 2002, 12:32

I understand I think. The Amiga and Atari computers had multi times the computing power of the computers that put men and women into space and to the moon. Today we regard those machines - the Amiga and Atari as - very slow.

Hercules · November 16, 2002, 12:40

Regarding the main question. I first got Civ 1 for the Atari, played a few turns and my atari floppy disc loader began to chew up the discs. end of round 1

When I got the PC I also got Civ2. Then SMAC. Like everyone else I climbed my way up through the levels and played every faction.

At last when I could beat the AI in Sp very regularly I thought I'd investigate the MP option.

So typed in Civilisation and Alpha Centauri and here I am. Discover ideas here that I would never have thought of.

Still loved the old Atari though and there are still games I never finished.

Provost Harrison · November 16, 2002, 13:42

You wouldn't love it if you had to go back to it. Nostalgia can distort the truth

atawa · November 16, 2002, 15:03

I was sent here by altavista.

Chieftess · November 16, 2002, 19:08

What brought me here? Well, it all started about 5-6 long years ago, well before the Ultimate Civ II Site and the First Greek Civ2 Site merged...

(I'm going to make a thread on it, you'll see...)

Promethus · November 16, 2002, 19:48

Found a link on the Civ III Home Site after I got Civ III. I just found my original DOS floppies for Civ I. I still remember how much FUN it was playing with memory managers and configurations to get it to fit in base memory because it could not use extended memory.

Ming · November 16, 2002, 19:57

Civ II. Came to the Greek Site when the Addicted Site closed it's forums down for remodeling

Dauphin · November 16, 2002, 20:11

Sorry about the poor grammar and syntax, just look at the time I posted it. 3am.

Jon Shafer · November 17, 2002, 03:54

Wow, never thought that this thread would take off like it did.

I always think that it's interesting to know how everyone ended up where they are, being a relative n00b here.

Chieftess · November 19, 2002, 17:59

Yeah, I've been around since 1996/1997... just that my join date doesn't show it.

*watches Ming mess with my account again*

FlameFlash · November 25, 2002, 15:33

CivII... a friend of mine had played through and was just trying to kill the Russians in a cold-war-gone-bad scenario where they were both just constantly shooting nukes at each other.

He finally gave up on the game but I was so amazed by the "what if" possibilities that I downloaded a demo... you know, that demo where you can only play so long (in turns) and I would race myself to see how quickly I could get to Gunpowder...

Finally, once CivII MPG came out for the Mac I just had to get it.

Then it was CivII: ToT... and then CtP and SMAC/SMAX.

My cousin actually bought the CtP copy first... but once I got to college I started searching online for a Civ site... and wandered in here finally in 2001... I don't even remember when I became super-active... but once I stumbled into the CtP forums that was it... now I'm a permanent fixture.

Dr Strangelove · November 25, 2002, 18:51

Back in the old days I had a 386. It wasn't very good at running flight simulation or real time games, then one day down at Babbage's I noticed a new game called "Civilization". I fell in love at first sight. Being turn based it had no problems with running on my computer. When I got internet in '95 I discovered by accident this area on Yahoo! devoted to game links, that led to my finding the old Ultimate Civ website. When Dan upgraded the site my computer couldn't handle it, so I wandered away for a year or so, then came back to find that Apolyton had replaced Ultimate Civ.

DrSpike · November 26, 2002, 05:25

I think the SMAC forums were the first place I posted..........but being here rekindled my interest in civ2 and that took over. The civ 3 forums took up most of my time whilst I was playing that.

Jac de Molay · November 26, 2002, 13:02

Bought Smac, and was having trouble mastering the game at the outset. lurked around here since early 2000 for game tips, and registered in 2001.