What I miss about the good old days.

[laurentius]

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

[Asmodean]

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

Asmodean

[Gramphos]

Ever hear of VDM Sound (or isit VMD Sound (I've not used XP for three months and I start to forget things))

[laurentius]

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

[laurentius]

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]

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]

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]

For sound in DOS games on WinNT/2k/XP see this:

http://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~vromas/vdmsound/

[laurentius]

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

Tack för the link

[Brundlefly]

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]

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]

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

[vovan]

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]

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]

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