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[–] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Call to power really was a "let's throw everything in there and the kitchen sink." No other civ game has approached its sheer amount of random unbalanced shit crammed into it. Not even alpha centari or beyond earth.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Call to power was the Civ game that got me really into Civ games.

    I had played Civ 2 before it, but Civ:CtP is what really got me into the franchise.

    Such an under rated gem. Can't believe mainstream civ games still don't have a space layer.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    It's a shame they never made a second one, I remember it being pretty good.

    All games were good when I was that age though....

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    They did. It wasn't quite as good ( awful UI iirc ), but still a decent game. You can get it on gog too

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Please upload a disk image to the internet archive

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I am only guessing and extrapolating based on how this usually goes:

    • It's probably possible to get it to run but would take a lot of work
    • It's probably much easier to just run the windows version under Wine

    While the Linux kernel usually maintains long term backward compatibility very well unfortunately the userspace (libraries) is a different story.

    Looking at the game's faq the main dependency seems to be SDL. There is no OpenGL or other 3D library requirement. It might also depend on which version was shipped on the CD according to the faq there was an earlier statically linked version (which I am guessing might be easier to get to run) and a later dynamically linked one.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Omg, my favorite civ!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I have my Loki Games Quake 3 for Linux CD somewhere.

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