I love how obsessed HN is with civilization. I put over 1000 hours into Civ 5 alone and was proud to beat diety (and then consistently beat diety). It's funny how many founders are big on civ. Zuck and Elon both apparently spent a lot of time during college on the series.
OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1
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#22Is there a similar project for Masters of Orion?
There's another recommendation that I haven't tried, but I've played a bunch of https://rayfowler.itch.io/remnants-of-the-precursors and can recommend it.
I wish there were one for MOO2, though. With some modern rebalancing...
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#23Time to pimp up my throne room
In Civ 1 you bring ameliorations to your palace, not throne room.
Please hand in your geek card.
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#24"OpenCiv1 uses .NET 8 and Avalonia UI framework"
So.... way bigger filesize than the original game + dosbox running on a html server?
Nice exercise though, but I'll stick to the original.
By the way CivNet (civ1 + networking for Win 3.11) runs perfectly in Wine
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#25Is there anything similar for Civ IV? So many top tier mods break after a while due to the same memory issues.
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#26While not exactly the same, there is also https://www.freeciv.org/
Also worth mentioning is C-evo, even if it's not being developed further afaik
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#27We got civ 2, civ 3, and civ 1.
But when will we get the greatest civ ever, civ 4?
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#28Can anyone give some hints on what made Civ 1 special compared to other classic entries in the franchise? Despite the nostalgia factor, of course.
Honestly it feels to me that Civ1 - Civ2 is the most direct upgrade in the series. Civ 2 was mostly just a better civ 1. From civ4 onwards, the series was a lot more willing to shake things up in its gameplay.
Civ 3 already started to shake things up.
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#29This is a great idea. I do play Civ1 on my XT class machine (NEC V20 @ 10MHz, 1MB RAM, 64MB IDE, 256K Trident VGA, NE2000, Adlib) but the turn times are horrendous as this is a 1991 game being run on a 1982 CPU. Realistically, most people would have been playing on either a 286 or 386. Having the game available on modern hardware, I imagine it’d be far more enjoyable. I’ll give it a go.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I still have the floppies and manual in a box in the attic. Bit of a hoarder in that way I’m afraid. Question then is do I need to find a floppy drive to obtain the files or can I get them elsewhere. Of course who knows if the floppy’s still work. I remember having problems with my Star Trek 25th anniversary floppies around 1996ish, and today it’s 30 years later.
I mean from a legal perspective, original media is the only recourse. But if we expand the options we're willing to avail ourselves of, there's a lot of high quality backups online. So far as I know, Take-Two Interactive is extremely lenient, especially since they don't offer any way to purchase Civ1 or 2
Owning the original game does not automatically grant you right to make or use in derivative works.