Civilization III Still Coming for Macintosh?

[Gatekeeper]

Everyone:

Just what the subject line implies. I did some perusing in the Civ III forum, but didn't find anything with my (admittedly) cursory scan.

It's been months now, but I do remember reading that Firaxis was in favor of porting Civ III to the Macintosh via a third party company (Macsoft, maybe?).

Any enlightenment would be appreciated.

CYBERAmazon

[Smash]

right here

It doesn't sound real good as far what we will actually get.I remain cautiously optimistic.

[Howitzer Al]

Sounds to me like the standard "We're bringing it to Macintosh, but we ain't promising when because it could take longer than anticipated."
As an engineer, I know that the only time you can be absolutely positive about when a product will be released is the day it actually hits the shelves.

[Gatekeeper]

Smash, Howitzer Al:

Thanks for the link and insights. To me it sounds like Civ III is a guarantee and that the question is more or less "when" it will be released. According to the link, they're trying to release it at or near the time the PC version comes out.

I shall keep my fingers crossed and wallet ready.

CYBERAmazon

[Smash]

I have no doubt we'll see it.I just wonder what we'll see.This "but we hope to be able to keep the Mac development closely in sync" stuff worries me a tad.

Is it going to be the same?

Will we see a MGE type fiasco with horrible conversion?

What OS and what not will be minimum?

We wait and see.

I'd rather a MAC version contain all of the fixes that are going to have be addressed in the pc version.Then we just have to try and fix our own bugs.

[Gatekeeper]

Smash:

I hear you in regards to the MGE fiasco. I don't know how long I spent troubleshooting bugs with Brian Nesse, but I did earn a copy of CtP for it. OTOH, we didn't get rid of the "quit program" bug. Then there was the overly-aggressive AI. Suffice to say, MGE is on my HD, but so is the standard Civ II game, which I play all the time.

CYBERAmazon

[Smash]

They gave you CTP?
It that a reward or punishment?

[Gatekeeper]

Originally posted by Smash
They gave you CTP?
It that a reward or punishment?

Smash:

**LOL** I have to abstain from answering that since I did receive it as a gift from Nesse and Macsoft. Suffice to say, it's on my HD as well, but doesn't get as much play as the standard-bearer Civ II.

CYBERAmazon

[MacUser]

Based on the press releases and the timing of those releases, I'm thinking that CivIII is a lock and it will be a Carbon version playable on either OS X or 8.5+Carbon extensions. 'course I'm an optimist too. I bought OS X 10.0 and expected to replace all other OS's immediately!