Difference between revisions of "Sid Meier's Colonization"

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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
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
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
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

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

[gamedir-5] 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).

[DOSBox_mounted-6] 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.

[1] January Mac Game Update: 10 New Additions - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023

[2] GOG.com Now Supports Linux!, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023

[3] List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023

[4] Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) · AppID: 327400 · Steam Database - last accessed on 9 June 2023

[7] WinG - Wikipedia - last accessed on 2020-03-20

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+==Essential improvements==
+===Patches===
+* The latest official patch for the DOS version is [https://archive.org/details/COLV30_ZIP 3.0].
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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