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Sid Meier's Civilization

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Sid Meier's Civilization
Sid Meier's Civilization cover
Developers
MPS Labs
Publishers
MicroProse
Chronicles release 2K Games
Release dates
DOS September 1991
Windows 3.x 1993
Mac OS (Classic) 1993
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Point and select
Genres 4X, TBS
Themes Historical
Series Civilization
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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 Civilization is a singleplayer top-down view 4X and TBS game in the Civilization series.

The game was re-released on Windows 3.x first in 1993 without changes, and again in 1995 as CivNet with added multiplayer features.

General information

Civilization Wiki - A detailed wiki for all Civilization games and their spin offs
Apolyton Civilization Site's Civilization I & II section - A huge forum dedicated to all Civilization games and their spin offs.
CivFanatics very large Civilization community.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
Original release.
DOS
Mac OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CivNet.
Windows 3.x

Version differences

CivNet 1995 re-release of Civilization with multiplayer features (LAN, hotseat, modem, and P2P), and is a 16-bit Windows application.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patches are available.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

Video

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file.
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
No speech.
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

Network

Multiplayer modes are only available in the CivNet release.

Multiplayer types

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes Tandy, EGA, VGA, SVGA
ExecutablePPC16-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
Operating system (OS) 3.0
Processor (CPU) Intel 386SX
System memory (RAM) 640 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3.5 MB
Video card (GPU) Tandy, EGA, VGA, or SVGA graphics card
Windows 3.x
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 3.1
Processor (CPU) Intel 386SX
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 8 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA, or SVGA graphics card
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 640 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3.5 MB


References