Sid Meier's Colonization
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Developers | |
---|---|
MPS Labs | |
Publishers | |
Retail | MicroProse |
Digital (original) | Night Dive Studios |
Digital (original) | Retroism |
Digital (current) | Atari |
Release dates | |
DOS | 1994 |
Windows 3.x | May 24, 1995 |
Mac OS (Classic) | 1995 |
Windows (DOSBox) | May 30, 2012 |
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) | January 24, 2013[1] |
Linux (DOSBox) | July 24, 2014[2] |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Turn-based |
Perspectives | Top-down view |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | 4X, TBS |
Themes | Historical, Europe, North America, South America |
Series | Colonization |
Colonization | |
---|---|
Sid Meier's Colonization | 1994 |
FreeCol (unofficial) | 2003 |
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization | 2008 |
Warnings
- The Windows 3.x version of this game does not work on 64-bit versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).
Sid Meier's Colonization is a singleplayer top-down view 4X and TBS game in the Colonization series.
General information
- Civilization Wiki - A detailed wiki for all Civilization games and their spin offs
- Colonization Fans - A fan site for the game
- GOG.com Community Discussions
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | ||||
Publisher website | ||||
GamersGate | ||||
GOG.com | Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3] | |||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam | Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[4] |
Essential improvements
Patches
- The latest official patch for the DOS version is 3.0.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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DOS | |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
Windows | <path-to-game>\MPS\COLONIZE[Note 1]<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2] |
macOS (OS X) | <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2] |
Linux | <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2] |
- It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.
Save game data location
System | Location |
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DOS | |
Mac OS (Classic) | |
Windows | <path-to-game>\MPS\COLONIZE\COLONY0*.SAV[Note 1] <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2] |
macOS (OS X) | <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2] |
Linux | <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
---|---|---|
GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|
Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Windows 3.x version is always windowed. Toggle with Alt+↵ Enter for DOSBox. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds). | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Remapping | For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds). | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds). |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | All speech is text-based. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file. |
|
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Spanish |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
WinG | [5] | |
DOS video modes | VGA |
Executable | PPC | 16-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Windows | Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using winevdm. | ||||
Mac OS (Classic) |
System requirements
DOS | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 5.0 | 6.2 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel 386SX | Intel 386 33 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 565 KB | 1 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 50 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | VGA-compatible |
Windows | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | XP, Vista, 7, 8 | |
Processor (CPU) | 1.8 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 512 MB | 1 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 50 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | DirectX 7 compatible | DirectX 9 compatible |
macOS (OS X) | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 10.6.8 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core Duo 2 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 1 GB | 2 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 50 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 64 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data.
References
- ↑ January Mac Game Update: 10 New Additions - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ GOG.com Now Supports Linux!, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) · AppID: 327400 · Steam Database - last accessed on 9 June 2023
- ↑ WinG - Wikipedia - last accessed on 2020-03-20