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Old November 14, 2002, 15:11   #31
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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...
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Old November 14, 2002, 21:20   #32
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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.
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Old November 14, 2002, 22:36   #33
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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.
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Old November 14, 2002, 23:07   #34
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Playing on the Civ 1 on the Amiga, it makes me laugh when people complain about how slow Civ 3 is.

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Old November 15, 2002, 00:25   #36
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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.
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Old November 15, 2002, 12:16   #38
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Old November 15, 2002, 12:52   #39
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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.
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Old November 15, 2002, 16:30   #40
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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
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Old November 15, 2002, 18:55   #41
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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.
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Old November 15, 2002, 20:27   #42
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On the ST I could skip most of the intro but it would require precision timing and knowing exactly when to 'click'
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God, weren't old computers awful when you think about it and get past that fake veneer of nostalgia...
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Whats scary is that those computers are to the Apollo programme computers as computers in ten years are to them.
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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.
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Old November 16, 2002, 12:21   #46
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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
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Old November 16, 2002, 12:32   #47
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sorry about the poor grammar and syntax, just look at the time I posted it. 3am.
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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.

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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.
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