Will There Be a Macintosh Port of Civ III?

[Gatekeeper]

MacUser, et al.:

My promise still stands — if a Macintosh port of Civilization III is made, it's mine. I was also among those who worked with Brian Nesse when he was busy writing corrective patches to Civilization II Gold. We didn't solve all the problems (one would've required ripping out the multi-player capability to solve), but I did get a copy of Civilization: Call to Power from the time, and also got an idea of what programming can be like.

CYBERAmazon

(P.S. Sorry for the months-long wait, MacUser. I simply forgot about this thread after October 2000 and was a bit surprised to see it still active into March 2001.)

[Murgatroyd]

I can also promise that if a Mac version comes out, and my system (a 450 MHz G3 iMac) can run it, I will buy it.

Murgatroyd

[Atahualpa]

Henrik: As far as I know Firaxis has yet always used MS DirectX Interface for their games. Now the prob is that when you have the MAC version you cant MP-play with Windows versions (if they use DirectPlay, which I am sure they will do).

Ata

[Gatekeeper]

Atahualpa:

I'd just be happy with a standard port to the Macintosh. Multi-player is nice, really, but being a Macintosh user means one is pleased oftentimes to just have the game. If it has multi-player compatible with Windows and/or other Macintosh machines, then that's icing on the cake, IMHO.

CYBERAmazon

[Atahualpa]

It's Firaxis! I can expect top-notch quality and support

ATa

[MacUser]

quote: Originally posted by CYBERAmazon on 03-25-2001 05:31 PM MacUser, et al.: My promise still stands — if a Macintosh port of Civilization III is made, it's mine... CYBERAmazon (P.S. Sorry for the months-long wait, MacUser. I simply forgot about this thread after October 2000 and was a bit surprised to see it still active into March 2001.)

Me too! And I'm always happy to be the "Gad fly" that bumps up this thread!

Ata:

The nVidia GeForce3 (note the3! ) is coming to the Mac platform FIRST!!! It will be available this spring in the built-to-order G4 towers. The downside to the current fanless iMac is that it has to hold back on video card power otherwise things get too hot. High-end gaming has to go to the G4 towers. This info comes via MacAddict.

By the way, Civ2 MGE plays great in OS X Classic environment! Now we just need a Linux/OS X port!

Edit: cut ignorant comment about DirectX. Sounds like it is and will continue to be a big deal. Allegedly the MS X Box is named after DirectX and it will push the format hard.

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[MacUser]

Monthly bump just to keep the suggestion alive...

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Be what you is and not what you is not. Folks who do that are the happiest lot!
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[Henrik]

Hopefully someone somewhere making the game will listen...

[tniem]

Not a Mac user, but know and understand the passion - my friends all own macs. Whoever is publishing the title (I think it is Infogames at this time) would be foolish not to port Civ III to Mac soon after release.