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Civ 4 Complete for $10 on Steam
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Today Only - don't miss out. I'm downloading right now - this even includes Colonization. 
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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Wow. Great deal.
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Moderator  Join Date: Apr 2000
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I bought it as well, and I already own Civ4. Both expansions and one extra game is still good value for $10.
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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Grrr...great deal and yet I missed it...son of a monkey!
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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I haven’t played a Civ game since playing Civ 2 at Uni on my old Pentium–166. There were some pretty heated arguments with my flatmate over whether the wheel or the alphabet should be researched first; he said the wheel, I said the alphabet. It was something of a reflection of our degree biases: I was doing English Literature, he was doing Engineering.
Anyway: I snapped it up for a grand total of £6.24. Quite looking forward to playing, and I was surprised (and pleased) to see there’s a new version of Colonisation. Now, if only they’d remake Alpha Centauri…
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Moderator Join Date: Apr 2000
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Originally Posted by Koralatov 
Anyway: I snapped it up for a grand total of £6.24. Quite looking forward to playing, and I was surprised (and pleased) to see there’s a new version of Colonisation. Now, if only they’d remake Alpha Centauri…
Colonization is truly a remake, though - very very small differences compared to the original except for the graphics. And there's no need to remake Alpha Centauri - the original is perfect, and since Brad Oliver ported it to OS X, it still runs.
Actually, Alpha Centauri is my favorite game ever, but it was very much a work by Brian Reynolds. Firaxis (makers of Civ, home of Sid Meier) still owns that trademark, but Brian Reynolds is currently at Big Huge Games. I'm not sure I'd like to see a new AC without him and the rest of the original team - it risks becoming another MoO III.
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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I can't believe I missed this one. I'd have bought it in an instant.
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This sale is back on! I just picked it up. I've started checking steam for sales just about every day now. There aren't a tone of games on there that I'm really interested in, but there are definitely a few that I'll grab if the price gets low enough.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Thanks guys! These games run perfectly in WINE, just FYI...
Edit: I guess it doesn't matter, somehow these expansion packs have been ported to OS X.
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Clinically Insane
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Hmmm... Just downloaded and installed Steam. It looks to be a wrapper around WINE, as the games seem to run the same and have the same issues.
It's definitely cool to be able to buy these games this cheaply though, and Steam certainly makes downloading and running these games very, very convenient.
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Moderator Join Date: Apr 2000
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No, it's not WINE. I'm pretty sure it's the same Aspyr ports that you can separately. The game engine is rather minimal for Civ IV. The data is all images and XML and the logic is all in Python, so it is not surprising if they have the same issues. Even after all the patches, the original Windows version is rather buggy.
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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Originally Posted by P
No, it's not WINE. I'm pretty sure it's the same Aspyr ports that you can separately. The game engine is rather minimal for Civ IV. The data is all images and XML and the logic is all in Python, so it is not surprising if they have the same issues. Even after all the patches, the original Windows version is rather buggy.
Ahhh... Well, the first release of Beyond the Sword was in 2007 for Windows only, the OS X version didn't come out until 2009, I didn't realize that they eventually came out with an OS X version. I'm also assuming that Warlords and Colonization came out much later for OS X too. My mistake, I had no idea that there were OS X versions of anything except for the original Civ IV.
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Moderator Join Date: Apr 2000
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The actual game was 9 months late to the Mac, and yes the expansions took some time as well. At least better than it was for Civ III, I guess, with Civ III: Conquests not arriving at all to begin with.
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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Mac Elite
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Originally Posted by P
The actual game was 9 months late to the Mac, and yes the expansions took some time as well. At least better than it was for Civ III, I guess, with Civ III: Conquests not arriving at all to begin with.
Not true anymore:
Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete includes Civilization III plus the Play the World Multiplayer and Conquests expansion packs.
Aspyr - Sid Meier's Civilization® III: Complete
Regards
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