Civ On the N-Gage?

[jim_steer]

http://ngage.gamespy.com/articles/513/513895p1.html

Sorry if this is old news but this is the first I have heard of it.

I kinda hope they port civ3 on to the PSP, which would be much more cunning than wasting their time on the dead N-Gage platform.

[Last Conformist]

Heretic! The PC is the One True And Only Civ Platform!

[Chilean Presidentâ„¢]

One of my friends play Civ1 in his mobile. Pretty amuzing and is like a time machine to the 20th Century

Here's a pic of the mobile version.

[Arnelos]

I miss Civ1

[MoonWolf]

Nostalgy! Kind of miss Civ1 me too

I have it somewhere, but as I'm used to Civ3, I'll probably suck at it. In 10 years time, we can play Civ3 on our mobiles.

[Chilean Presidentâ„¢]

I'm sure it will be sooner than 10 years

[Last Conformist]

Civ on my cellphone? This far, cellphones have improved my social life, but once I get that it's pretty much done for ...

So, I better stick to the PC!

[Chilean Presidentâ„¢]

Anyway it would be dissapointing to be at the gates of Paris to overthrow Napoleon and just before... receive a call

[Arnelos]

This reminds me again of my friend Luigi naming his civilization the "Kicka**". He'd always get a chuckle when "Kicka** wise men discover The Wheel!" or something of the like.

I miss little Civ1 stuff like that from my childhood.

I also miss kicking my brother and my father's a**es in a months-long hotseat game of CivNet (having started from a hideous starting area).

[Dr. A. Cula]

Speaking of Civ1, does anyone have any idea why it runs slower on a modern computer that it did when it came out? It ran just fine on a 25Mz 80386 processor with 4MB RAM and it ran frustratingly slow on every processor I used since the first Pentiums came out. The reason I'm asking is because I have the habbit of trying to run it on every new Windows installation. Last night was the first time I ran it on XP and the first time in 10 years it had sound on the first try, without having to resort to hunting for obsolete hardware, untested drivers and/or voodoo incantations. It is painfully slow, though. After this, I dug out other games I had from that time and most of them followed the general trend of running much faster.
And I was so looking forward to replaying Civ1 once again.

[MegaCore]

Hopefully the N-Gage version will be based on Civ3. I also miss some of the things in Civ1, but if I went back, i would miss things like culture and automatic workers.

[Mr. President]

Playing Civilization on a mobile phone is surely too much!

[ceroomaster]

Originally posted by Dr. A. Cula
Speaking of Civ1, does anyone have any idea why it runs slower on a modern computer that it did when it came out? It ran just fine on a 25Mz 80386 processor with 4MB RAM and it ran frustratingly slow on every processor I used since the first Pentiums came out. The reason I'm asking is because I have the habbit of trying to run it on every new Windows installation. Last night was the first time I ran it on XP and the first time in 10 years it had sound on the first try, without having to resort to hunting for obsolete hardware, untested drivers and/or voodoo incantations. It is painfully slow, though. After this, I dug out other games I had from that time and most of them followed the general trend of running much faster.
And I was so looking forward to replaying Civ1 once again.

I think it might have something to do with the fact that windows no longers uses the Expanded (EMS) memory area any more, but the Extended (XMS) area, and Civ 1 required EMS memory to be run (and as a DOS program it doesn't recognise XMS).
You could try looking at the .pif properties. The fourth tab is 'Memory' set all the values to their highest and tick/check all the option boxes, it may work...

[spy14]

You would be right. Its an acheivment to get Civ1 running at all on a modern system, the systems Civ1 was designed for are a different world to any remotely modern machine. Try running it through a Dos emulator, it should pull the performance back up to the old levels.