What I miss about the good old days.

Sheep · June 6, 2003, 06:39

Civilisation one is perhaps the best game that ever came out. I miss it heaps. The graphics were shotty, the music annoying and the gameplay not as great as the current incarnations. However it was fun.

That and being nuked was funny, especially when you had the munchies.

Jamski · June 6, 2003, 06:42

Being nuked was not funny, but Civ1 kept me playing nearly every day for about 8-9 years. I still have my old Amiga just for playing Civ1.

Quote:

the gameplay not as great as the current incarnations.

If you mean Civ3, then I have to disagree.

-Jam

Vev · June 16, 2003, 23:07

How about being PBed Jamski

Jamski · June 17, 2003, 06:31

Grrrr

I haven't forgotten...

-Jam

laurentius · July 11, 2003, 03:58

I have to agree, Civ1 had a magical atmosphere. I would propably still prefer playing it instead of civ2 and civ3 if it would be improved a bit. New storyline, scenarios, capitalization

wampre · July 15, 2003, 08:50

I loved Civ1 becasue it was the first of its kind (that I was aware of anyway.) Even bought the windows version for slightly better graphics. But Civ2 is probably the greatest game ever made in my opinion. It has NEVER lweft my hard drive since the day it came out.
Civ 3? I play it but its a major disspointment. (As in the Moo series) sometimes changing a game for the sake of changing it DOES NOT improve it.

gopher · July 30, 2003, 21:48

Civ 1 was magical because of the fact it was so new, and unlike anything I had ever seen.

Ecthy · October 2, 2003, 06:11

if you like it so much, play it

Gramphos · October 2, 2003, 06:36

I do still play it.

Ecthy · October 2, 2003, 07:20

I'm talking to Sheep. He could just start the game.

Gramphos · October 3, 2003, 01:46

Well, it can be hard to start up old games sometime. you need to know how to configure them to make them run. Civ1 DOS version is no problem, you can run it perfectly with a boot disk. But the windows version might give a bigger headache.

Ecthy · October 4, 2003, 06:29

Yeah, see other threads... there are many ways, compatibility modes, windowsmemory setting for DOs games, DOS boot, keeping DOs machines around at low performance...

Gramphos · October 4, 2003, 07:39

Yuo shall not run DOS files from within Windows as it is very unstavle, and requires new VMs to be created in the memory. Which also means that in the 9x versions you would have problem with more than 512 MB RAM

Ecthy · October 4, 2003, 09:06

I do Win98 and I have 384 megs'o'ram so that's not a problem

Finvola · October 12, 2003, 14:11

I miss playing it also. I have no idea where my copy of Civ1 is because I've moved around so much in the past few years. I still play Colonization quite a bit......and my copy of Civ II and Civ III have yet to be found also.

laurentius · October 13, 2003, 06:24

I wonder does Civ1 work in XP....doubt it...

Asmodean · October 13, 2003, 12:14

It does. Especially when run under Win95 compatibility mode. You need to do some autoexec editing to get sound to work, though.

Asmodean

Gramphos · October 13, 2003, 13:49

Ever hear of VDM Sound (or isit VMD Sound

(I've not used XP for three months and I start to forget things))

laurentius · October 13, 2003, 17:06

It works!? Wow, how do I get it working?

laurentius · October 19, 2003, 16:14

Ok, I installed it and it works...very slowwwwly.

I might have something to do with the sounds because it works in the normal speed only when I choose the "IBM Sound" option which uses the PC speaker and is loud as hell.

Anyone know if Sid is releasing any Fix/Patch to fix this problem with XP?

Brundlefly · October 20, 2003, 15:29

I liked the Civ 1 random events: meteor strikes and an occasional city flip and the civil war that split a civ in half...

Sheep · October 20, 2003, 21:07

Yes the civil wars are the one thing I miss about civ1. If only they were included into civ3. The old tactic of simply capturing the enemy capital and then makingpeace with half their empire while still at war with the other half simply does not work anymore.

The pother thing is I used to like planting nuclear devices and poisioning the water supply in civ2. That was always fun and to see a city nuked with no retailiation was always a joy.

Gramphos · October 21, 2003, 02:39

For sound in DOS games on WinNT/2k/XP see this:
http://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~vromas/vdmsound/

laurentius · October 21, 2003, 06:49

Ok Gramp, I 'll give it a shot. Will report any progress here asap.

Tack för the link

Brundlefly · October 21, 2003, 10:25

Of course the Civ2 advisor movies. I love the way that Elvis always had to say "Uh-huh" after the Science Advisor said something nerdy.

Father Beast · October 25, 2003, 11:18

it's too bad that's all Elvis ever had to say, almost. the bickering between the other advisors was always a lot more entertaining than his constant whining for luxuries when nobody was unhappy.

Gramphos · October 25, 2003, 13:43

Well, he wanted everyone to e happy. (Or at least WLT*D in every cities)

vovan · October 25, 2003, 14:19

I think that there is so much nostalgia about Civ1 and other old games like that not necessarily because they were so much the greatest, but because they were the first games we played and enjoyed. (That is to say, first more or less complex games, since arcades had been around by then.) I'll bet fifteen years from now, people who started their computer gaming experience right about now will also be saying: "Oh, Civ3 was the greatest game ever released. And now what's up with this Civ6 crap? Why can't they make quality games any more?"

I know I loved civ1, and I loved colonization, and I don't enjoy the newer games that much. But I still think that that is not because the old games were much better, but because when I played them, they were something totally new to me: a cool new experience. And now everything just seems like a clone of something old. I am sure the people who have never played that something old before are enjoying the new stuff as we enjoyed the old stuff back in the days.

PS:

I sound like an old fart now.

Too bad the computer world evolves so quickly, you start sounding like an old fart at 20.

Brundlefly · October 28, 2003, 17:02

Quote:

Originally posted by Father Beast
it's too bad that's all Elvis ever had to say, almost. the bickering between the other advisors was always a lot more entertaining than his constant whining for luxuries when nobody was unhappy.

"BUILD CITY WALLS".

Back when I played CIv2 alot, I would hear the military advisor say that so much that I would hear it in my sleep.

Of course, the Civ2 AI was so clueless most of the game that once I had enough luxuries coming in to maintain happiness, I hardly ever kept cities garrisoned let alone have them with city walls....

Gramphos · October 28, 2003, 18:10

"There are matters other than this blunted spearpint to attend to..."