Civ tested on OS 9 and works

[MacUser]

Our honorary ACS member Brian Nesse sent me the following note:

I have run Civ II Gold on three OS 9 machines (a 233 G3, an iMac, and a
"Lombard" notebook) with no problems.

-Brian
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Brian S. Nesse
Development Manager/
Sr. Software Engineer
MacSoft

I (MacUser) have also been told that MS has posted patches for Office 98 (Word, Excel ect) to fix compatibility problems with OS 9. I was also told (but have NOT confirmed!) that the secret for success with OS 9 is to first install OS 9 (clean install?) and then RE-install programs that are problematic followed by their respective patches, if applicable.

If someone (Finbar) wants to try this out (Finbar) and let us know how it works (Finbar) that would be cool (Finbar )!

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[This message has been edited by MacUser (edited December 27, 1999).]

[finbar]

Mr Nesse has some interesting thoughts on OS9 apart from its viability with Civ!

Conveyed in an email to me ... he doesn't like it.

I rests me case!

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[This message has been edited by finbar (edited December 28, 1999).]

[MacUser]

So, over a year later and patches available, does anyone have OS 9.x running on their main Civing machine? My reason for asking is relative to OS X Classic. I waffling on the Mar 24 midnight purchase!

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[Henrik]

I play civ on a G4 whit Mac OS 9.0.4 and it works fine, there seem to be a memory leak in civ but thats probably not the systems fault.

[RNF]

I've played Civ II at least on 8.5, 8.6, 9.0.4, and 9.1 (can't remember if I still had 8.1 when I first got it), and it's run perfectly on every one of them.

Actually, I can't think of more than a tiny handful of programs that haven't work smoothly from 7.1 right up through 9.1.

-Neil