What was your first civ2 computer

Father Beast · June 20, 2001, 23:18

mine was a 486/25, which my brothers benchmark said ran half as fast as a 486/25

Paul L · June 21, 2001, 00:28

EDIT: stupid post I thought you meant civ1

real answer Pentium II (yeah I waited a long time before upgrading)

Paul L · June 21, 2001, 00:33

486/25 half as fast as a 486/25

rixxe · June 21, 2001, 04:18

486 DX4/100 w/ 8Mbs RAM... it was 7 years ago,...

Juggler · June 21, 2001, 05:37

pentium II for Civ2
486 for Civ1

Mercator · June 21, 2001, 06:12

My first Civ1 PC is much more interesting, an IBM 8088!!

And I only acquired Civ1 in 1995! Was I glad I got Civ1! It was just about the only serious game that would run on it, while all my friends were playing Doom on their 486's

Scouse Gits · June 21, 2001, 07:42

Snap, Mercator - except mine was an 8086 souped up to run at 8MHz - it had an absolutely monstrous 30 Mb HDD and one of those new-fangled 4 and a bit inch FDDs which took 720 Kb diskettes - what an improvement they were - those were the days my friend ...

Paul Hanson · June 21, 2001, 07:55

My first civ2 machine was my PII 350, which I really must upgrade at some point.

My first civ1 machine was my trusty Amiga 1200, which I upgraded to run at a monstrous 50MHz, with a ridiculous 18Mb of RAM!

Ecthy · June 21, 2001, 13:56

Pentium 75 for me

Mercator · June 21, 2001, 15:01

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Originally posted by Scouse Gits
Snap, Mercator - except mine was an 8086 souped up to run at 8MHz - it had an absolutely monstrous 30 Mb HDD and one of those new-fangled 4 and a bit inch FDDs which took 720 Kb diskettes - what an improvement they were - those were the days my friend ...

Mine had a 20 MB harddisk I believe, but it did have both 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives

Yes, *sigh* those were the days... Well, until others started having faster PC´s anyway.

The Mad Monk · June 22, 2001, 00:37

My first Civ2 computer was the same one I have now--a 450 MHz Pentium III with 128 Mb memory and a 10 gig HD, which I acquired two or three years ago.

I still have my Tandy 1000 SX (8088), as well as my Commodre 64/Plus4 and TI-99/4A...

Howitzer Al · June 22, 2001, 10:59

PowerMac 6100, 60MHz, 16Megs of RAM.
Macs RULE!

KrazyHorse · June 22, 2001, 13:20

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Originally posted by Ecthelion
Pentium 75 for me

Ditto. Also, this was my first Civ I computer. It was 1995 and I was fifteen. I thought I was a strategic genius when I invented the "wave of catapults".

BeBro · June 22, 2001, 14:05

My first computer for civ2 was a crappy PC with a 233MHz Cyrix CPU

I played Civ1 on an Amiga 2000, it was pretty slow, especially after Apollo, but I loved that machine...

Father Beast · June 22, 2001, 16:16

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Originally posted by Paul L
486/25 half as fast as a 486/25

Hey, that was an upgrade from my 386/16 I bought at the thrift store for 20$ in 1996!

a buddy of mine said he found these parts somewhere, and had a 486 motherboard among them. I bought a 286 at thrift store for the case, then bought 4 1MB ram cards used and a 486/25 CPU. total cost was around 35$. that was in mid 1997.

a friend bought me my first CD-Rom for christmas, and sometime later I bought civ2 at Kmart for 12$ with some birthday money. I had already bought Civ1 a while back and was addicted.

so my firts civ2 computer was also my first civ1 computer.

I tried running windows 95 on that at one point (after I upgraded to 16MBRAM) and it took about 7 minutes to boot.

Rasputin · June 23, 2001, 00:51

wow , either you guys got civ 2 very late or you had very uptodate computers, my first experince on civ 2 was on a 486 machine, civ 2 had already been out a while then, but pentiums werent available till that year, but i couldnt afford latest computer, so bought a 486 ... now i have a pent III but wish i had a PIV ...

Lrod1843 · July 2, 2001, 02:04

my first civ2 experience was on a powermac 75mhz 16mb ram, and now i run civ2 on a 486 at a blazing speed of 66mhz, ram is pretty decent though at 74 MB.

Zopperoni · July 2, 2001, 03:12

Pentium 120...16 MB RAM...2 MB V-RAM...1.2 GB harddisk

Deathwalker · July 2, 2001, 05:48

Mine was a Escom P100 with 16MB of RAM, and it ram great on it.

Earwicker · July 2, 2001, 11:35

I've always used my Compaq crash-o-matic: Pentium 166 MHz, 4 Gig HD. It's gotten better, thankfully, as long as I'm careful . . .

Gothmog · July 2, 2001, 12:14

I'm surprised to see a 386 on the list because the CIV II manual says a 486 is required. Not only that but a few people voted for the 386. I guess the manual is wrong?

N35t0r · July 2, 2001, 12:18

and i still use it once in a while...

I have another one, P 133 w/ 20 MB RAM...

Odin · July 4, 2001, 16:16

Mine was a 1994 pentium Packard Bell with 8Mb of RAM, 44MHz CPU, and a 800Mb hard drive. Currently I have a 2000 AMD k6 Nobilis with 128Mb of RAM, 650MHz CPU, and 20Gb hard drive

Blaupanzer · July 5, 2001, 16:29

Civ I on an 8086 with external HD (10 megs). Civ II on a 386/16 with small HD (1.2 gig?). Had to buy a cd-rom for that rig just to play. Both were below minimum manual-stated requirements; both handled their version of Civ quite well, although Savegames had to be handled to keep disk-space open. Sid has always been a very friendly designer in terms of machine capability. It's not the graphics that matter, its the game! Note: the 386 would not handle diplomacy screens and Wonder movies, but both can be turned off.

DarkCloud · July 5, 2001, 17:33

A 386 for Civ I; a Pentium I for Civ II

catullus · July 10, 2001, 04:31

P166 for Civ2
386sx (no 387 FPP, 20MHz, 4MB RAM, 80MB FDD) for Civ1

Civ2 came in March 1996, and Pentiums had been out for some time then. I got my P166 in october that year, and it was a pretty top-of-the-line machine at that time (32MB RAM, 1,2 GB disk). Everybody laughed at me, said that my memory purchase was overkill. Then just a few month later, P-MMX came, and I felt like I was cheated.
These days, my handheld outperforms my Civ1 computer, and both my laptops can run in wide rings around the Civ2 PC.