Download #2 contains the game + full documentation.If you have version 1 (that is, if your game says version 474.01 or 475.01 when you start it up), hit shift-56.

The official 1.0.6 - 1.1 updater (CompactPro or StuffIt).

The CivHackPMac extension to allow it to run on PowerMacs.

Disk Copy v6.3.3 disk images (4) of the original install disks.Along the way you develop new sciences, meet other tribes (some warlike, some not), and visit new continents, all for the aim of trying to get into space, and/or to be the dominant civilization. The aim of the game is to take a tribe, settle them, and try to create a civilization. Starting a Civilization game means you'll be stuck in front of your computer for at least 2 hours playing it! You can try and make deals with other tribes by bribing them or negociating war allies or friendship treaties with them. then the pace will pick up and other tribes will build armies and declare war to each other. The game starts in the year 4000BC and very slowly, technologies are discovered, you will discover the alphabet, the mathematics, the wheel, iron working, etc. Just surviving other nations is a big challenge in and out of itself. and ultimately at the very end of the game: to build and launch a spaceship in hope of populating another planet.

Sid Meier's Civilization objective is to dominate the Earth by building cities, armies and dealing with barbarian tribes, pollution, revolution, budget, etc.

It's worth noting that the Macintosh version of Civilization featured better graphics and sound than the DOS version at the time. 25 years after the first version came out, people are still playing this true turned-based, realistic, strategy game classic of the computer era and new versions are still coming out.

The Civilization franchise grew big and popular through out the first decade and was then edited by Infogrammes among other companies. Sid Meier's Civilization was created in 1991 by Sir Meier and immediately picked up interest from the old school gaming community.

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