When Civ II Source Code Is Released... What Are Your Plans?

[cityofangels]

good thinking,i am waiting to see

[McMonkey]

I think you need to read through the previous posts a little more carefully. The code has been lost and this project is dead. The only way to achieve this now would be to program the whole thing from scratch. I can't see that happening here, though CivEvo and FreeCiv might interest you.

[SandMonkey]

Sorry for bringing up a really old thread (even though it's still on the first page ) but I think this is just terrible that the source code is lost forever. I'm not a programmer, so I'm a bit dumbstruck that this is possible in the first place. I guess I assumed code was in some way like a car. Once you opened it up and took a look inside you could see how it was built. Obviously this naive view is quite incorrect.

CivII was such a great game, I would love to see what people could have done with it. After having played a few games of Civ V and seeing just how easy it is to win (even though I think this will change with future patches/expansions), I am reminded of the difficulty of winning at Civ II, and the numerous paths to victory in what I feel many younger gamers today would consider a "simple" civ game. It is still a great game to play, and I will forever have fond memories of wasting perhaps thousands of hours of my teenage years

[defrancoj]

Nope. To borrow a metaphor from one of the admins over at http://wcnews.com, it's like baking a cake: there's no getting your eggs back after it comes out of the oven.

Many have pointed out that with the knowledge accumulated here on the forums, it would be relatively easy to recode the game, or better still, to contribute to FreeCiv and make its civ2 mode more faithful. I'm a lousy autodidact when it comes to programming, but fixing up FreeCiv would probably not be that hard. So far however, I've been content to stick with vanilla Civ2 despite its quirks and platform issues. (I run it in WinXP inside VirtualBox.) You're right—the games that came after suck.

[Kaak]

bah... there is no way the code is completely lost. Most programmers/computer nerds (including me) never get rid of anything. Track down the lead programmer/pm from the CIV2 and ask him for it.