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Civ IV: Coming to the Mac, but when?
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Inside Mac Games is reporting that Aspyr will publish Civ IV for the Mac, but I haven't found any actual press release, or seen any indication of a release date other than 2006. Has anyone read anything of interest about this? I'm looking forward to losing a significant portion of my freetime next year. 
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There's a thread on the civfanatics website about this, which Brad Oliver seems to chime in on occasionally. He was the main Mac programmer for the current Civ III program from Firaxis, and is currently working at Aspyr Media on the Civ III Complete and Civ IV ports. Here's some info that someone posted on that thread (which Brad chose not to contradict...)
Civ 4
Release date known so far: Spring 2006
Producer: Aspyr
responsible software engineer: Brad Oliver (who has started working on it yet).
Systemrequirements: OS 10.3.x as minimum - OS 10.4.x as recommended.
RAM: 512 MB as minimum, better 1 GB (what is better in any case)
DirectPlay of DirectX is not used but GameSpy's network toolkit, therefor crossplatform networking possible.
Grafics adapter: Radeon 7500 as minimum - Radeon 9600 as recommended.
Dual Monitoring may be supported.
DVD drive will be needed
USA price around 50 US Dollar
PtW & C3C
Release date known so far: December 2005
LAN & PBEM Mac only.
1.29beta2 Saves will be loadable!
No editor.
Systemrequirements: OS 10.3.x as minimum - OS 10.4.x as recommended.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=133656
Personally, I'm looking forward more to the Civ III Complete port. I think my 800 MHz G3 iBook is a little underpowered for Civ IV, and sadly, no funds exist to upgrade just for Civ IV! 
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A little underpowered? I've heard from someone that the 3D world in Civ 4 is laggy even on a 2Ghz PC.
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Originally Posted by Dork.
There's a thread on the civfanatics website about this, which Brad Oliver seems to chime in on occasionally. He was the main Mac programmer for the current Civ III program from Firaxis, and is currently working at Aspyr Media on the Civ III Complete and Civ IV ports. Here's some info that someone posted on that thread (which Brad chose not to contradict...)
Thanks for the info and the links.
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