Civilization II under Virtual PC

re: Civilization II under Virtual PC

anon — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 08:27:00 GMT

The "because I can" reason is good enough :)

re: Civilization II under Virtual PC

Virtual PC Guy — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:54:00 GMT

Anon / DosFreak -

The main reason that I like to run stuff like this inside of Virtual PC is that it is easier to switch between other programs and games like this. The other reason is 'because I can' :-)

Cheers,
Ben

re: Civilization II under Virtual PC

Naaman — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:53:00 GMT

Mmmm.... Freeciv. Open-source version of Civ II with multi-player built in from the beginning and all sorts of customizability.

http://www.freeciv.org/index.php/Freeciv

Works fine under Win2k Professional, so it should be fine under XP as well.

re: Civilization II under Virtual PC

DosFreak — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 17:52:00 GMT

Yeah, runs fine for me on Host NT4/2K/XP/2003.

Some versions you may have to update the indeo code.

Only reason I can think of offhand to play it under VPC is if you have a VPC image with tons of games on it and you don't like to litter your host with games.

re: Civilization II under Virtual PC

anon — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 09:04:00 GMT

Why not run it directly in Windows XP? And yeah, I agree, that game eats time like crazy.