Sid Meier's Civilization

DOS - 1991

Also available on: Mac - Windows 3.x - Amiga - Atari ST

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Description of Sid Meier's Civilization

Sid Meiers Civilization Revolution developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games. It is a Turn-based Strategy, Single and Multiplayer video game for multiple platforms such as PlayStation, Windows Phone, iOS, etc. Dec 21, 2014 - Get Civilization Revolution 2 on your computer. Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution 2 challenges players to build a glorious empire that will.

Sid Meier's Civilization was a watershed for the 4x genre before the genre even had its present name. While there had been earlier games that incorporated many of the features, such as conquest, tech trees, and city management, Sid Meier's landmark game brought them all together and with the necessary oomph and flair to appeal to a large demographic beyond just wargamers that gave it a staying power as one of the most dominant and recognizable PC franchises in history.

The premise is simple but has become timeworn: you take a faction from Stone Age primitivism to either global conquest or interplanetary colonization. You research technologies, which allow you to build better units and new city improvements. You're presented with opportunities for peace and trade or war and conquest.

Advances are less linear than RTS games and improvements are permanent [unlike, say, Age of Empires, where you play multiple scenarios with your civilization and start essentially from scratch each time]. This gives you a bit of flexibility in your strategy, though there's only a limited amount of optimization—it's not rock-paper-scissors; units progress with each era in a straight-forward manner—it's more about when you get one of one type over one of the other. The biggest strategic factor is Civilization's signature “Wonders of the World” improvement; these unique city projects are as numerous as they are expensive, so building them all yourself is next to impossible on any reasonable challenge difficulty.

Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution 2 challenges players to build a glorious empire that will stand the test of time. This is the first game in the Civilization catalog to be developed and available exclusively for mobile devices. Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution [Japan Import] Download Free. SSXLEYP0nuXJokAEs Donath. Updated 20 March 2017. Transcript!DOCTYPE html. Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution is a 2008 emphasis of Civilization created. The Xbox 360 rendition of amusement was accessible as a free download for.

One of the notable aspects of Civilization was the rather motley and incongruous crew of historical figures used to represent each faction. Choices of leaders are less puzzling here than in later installments, perhaps, but it must have been a programmer's sick joke to make Mahatma Gandhi a bullying warmonger.

Civilization has some interesting world creation settings, which I strongly suggest you use, because the Earth map for it is absolutely terrible (crowded, poorly scaled, and god help you if you picked the English, who are stuck on an island).

Civilization is bright and colorful and is a fairly casual play compared to later installments. One can easily get an entire game in over the course of one late night or a lazy weekend.

Review By P. Alexander

The legendary game of the Civilization series, it defined a new genre of turn based strategy.

When Sid Meier's Civilization was released in 1991, it single-handedly changed the strategy video game market forever. Its format has since been copied by a number of 'turn-based' games, and the basic plot of the game was to build an empire. Once this had been successfully established, the aim of the game was to get your civilization to grow and flourish.

The game itself covered a wide period of history, stretching from the prehistoric ages to the futuristic development of Outer Space. This included an in-depth look into the Ancient Greeks, as well as detailed gameplay that covered the Roman Empire. This variety of content was enough to keep players hooked on this gaming classic for countless hours - the publisher was also ultimately responsible for the Sim City series of games across a number of different platforms.

Paradigm wrote:

One of the greatest games ever made for a computer, and also one of the most addicting. Civilization launched the entire franchise. It is, quite simply, a master work.

That said.. Civilization 1 is brutal and broken. Expect no mercy as the computer flagrantly cheats to make up for AI limitations when playing on higher difficulty levels. There are also a great many events that happen in the game that lack explanation (in fact the game doesn't even tell you they are happening). One example of this is your civilizations production getting cut in half as soon as 1 A.D. hits.

Also, beware 'stacks of doom', in which 20+ powerful units can occupy the same square, becoming neigh invincible. Unit strength is VERY relative.. chariots can beat tanks. In Civ 1 these things do happen..

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Patches

• Patch 474.03 (01.04.1992) : several errors are fixed, the balance has been corrected, the ability to rename cities, etc. has been added
• Patch 474.04 (21.07.1992) : install after patch 3.0
• Patch 474.05 (13.10.1992) : fix bug when hovering advisors. Beta version of the patch, the final version did not work

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Comments and reviews

Nick2019-06-020 point

If you're getting the copy protection quiz come up and want to remove it - look up JCivEd and use that to patch the exe with the 'no quiz' patch to remove it.

aMaZYNG2019-04-16-1 point

i didnt played at the time because this game is not of my generation,but my father did and as he knew that i like retro he asked me to play the game and i love it

test A2019-03-11-2 points Atari ST version

I'm playing this currently online, here on this abondonware site, on a mac laptop, no mouse. I've figured out all the commands, except how to go into a city and change what I'm building (say, for example, off of militias and onto choosing to build settlers). I simply cannot figure out the commands. I found cheat sheets/keyboard shortcut lists online and studied them for ages but still nothing..can anybody help me? cheers! x
Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again?
Francesca Bush

davidrich72019-01-20-1 point

love this game!

s2018-12-070 point

I'm playing this currently online, here on this abondonware site, on a mac laptop, no mouse. I've figured out all the commands, except how to go into a city and change what I'm building (say, for example, off of militias and onto choosing to build settlers). I simply cannot figure out the commands. I found cheat sheets/keyboard shortcut lists online and studied them for ages but still nothing..can anybody help me? cheers! x

Nickname2018-11-182 points DOS version

Is there command arguments for selecting graphics, sound and control choices ?
If possible, I'd like to avoid the '1 4 1' every time.
Bonus if there is an argument to load menu right away instead of waiting for input. Without input it shows an how-earth-came-to-be animation first, and only at its end does the menu load.

nickname2018-09-145 points

just to let you know there is a problem with the browser version of this game after a few hours it just freezes up right after a city upgrade i dont know if its the browser version of the dosbox the browser itself or the game but i cant complete game if can please fix thank you

specimen 82018-08-143 points

how do i boot the game up?

Civgamer2018-08-121 point DOS version

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Hi!
How can I get all the available nations? I can not find americans, english, egyptian, greek, aztec and chinese in the list..

Rouge2018-04-081 point

First, thank you to the person who gave me the way to take DOSbox full screen.
II started playing it on my sister's computer and liked it. She went shopping for a copy for me. After failing to find it at halk-a-dozen stores, she finally found one last copy. Have I really been playing it for some 25 years?
She also had Civilization 2 but I didn't like it as well.
My hard drive failed recently and my Windows 10 computer is running it in DOSbox. I've saved a game but the computer can't find it. It looks on the C: drive and brings up a series of .
I'm beginning to wonder if the wrong version was put onto this new computer because I was running the same version under Windows 3.1 on, I think, a 286. put it onto a 386, and a Pentium. Will it run on Windows 10? Hope so.
I noticed that I can download that version here. How long should it take at 48.0 or 49.2 dial-up?
Also, Oregon Trail sounds interesting.Can I run that?
Thanks.

libertarian2018-03-27-5 points

I hit download and all I get is a copy of the manual. What am I doing wrong?

nickname2018-03-181 point

i cannot for the life of me get this game to work.
ive managed to do other dos game but for some reason this one hates me

Akari-Kion62018-01-18-3 points

Isn't that bad actually for a '91 game. Probably the better of out Sid Meier's Civilization 2.

Space man 1007892018-01-04-3 points

This Game Is Amazing, It Is The First strategy game I have ever played, it also is the game that made me love the strategy genre of games

Ruan2018-01-02-2 points DOS version

Can anyone please email me the manual for the first DOS Civilization? vanheerdenruan@gmail.com

PCB2017-12-05-1 point DOS version

It doesn't help when you give the manual and the game the same exact zip file name.
They are both 'sid-meiers-civilization.zip'
.
Other than that thanks for all the work.

Just User2017-12-01-2 points

OMG I never managed to pass middle ages.. however, my friends used to go to space =)

Paweł2017-11-22-1 point DOS version

Best game ever !

lawlesslars2017-10-281 point DOS version

I am trying the early version on a samsung chromebook cursor doesn't seem to work
try keyboard only and can't find command to get into my city to change or buy something in queue Spilling out Militia until 1500AD before my city is reduced and the program goes into city. The whole point of the game seems unobtainble. I think I have tried all combinations of keyboard commands but not from every menu

Bigboss2017-10-280 point

I need a version for mac in english.

Bietro2017-08-30-1 point DOS version

And also implementing functional roland soundcard emulation,sound works only by choosing 4* in the time back then adlib was king so no wonder.

Bietro2017-08-302 points DOS version

This Game Is Great ! 2
I Still Play It Every Day But I Noticed A Minor 'Bug' , It Goes As Follows , When You Are In Game Thats Advanced 'Probably Beyond 0AD' And You go to Your Town and Click On 'Change' Button It Can Dissapear In Matter Of Seconds And Youre Stuck With 'Not Responding Game *Tested on both browser version here and DOS (DOSBOX)(0.7.4) version* I Would Really Appreciate If Someone Can Release Patch For This It Would Be Really Helpful, Oh also i hate the slow movin around map *haha* so speeding the movement of cursor on the map would be nice too.
Thanks For Reading ! :)

Libertarian2017-08-221 point

Since they put in this new set up, it only works on Chrome!

Sam2017-08-02-2 points

@ EDO , THANKS for the great description brother!

DPH2017-06-202 points DOS version

There's lots of text files in the main folder - by changing the text in them you can mess around with loads of the stuff the people say in the game.

DoctorEvo2016-10-212 points DOS version

Love this game! It really passes the time while I'm on airplanes and in airports. I use DosBox on Android.

moneylife2016-09-082 points

Nukes!! this game took away hours of my childhood and adult life

PelleK2016-06-252 points

To abandonware: this is awesome, thanks a lot!
To ME: I got the same problem, but solved it by changing the keyboardlayout in the DOSbox Options File from auto to keyboardlayout=gr (German QWERTZ Keyboard). This solved the problem for me. The Mouse can be locked in and out the DOSbox with CTRL+F10.
ME Wrote 2016-03-28:
every time I load civ, I get to select what screen, sound, mouse and keyboard options then immediately I'm dropped back to A: after it says integer div=a

Guy2016-06-210 point

Dear, Libertarian: not sure if you will read this but try downloading an original dos.

Libertarian2016-06-192 points

For some reason it only works on Internet Explorer and not very good on it either. It used to work good on Chrome but doesn't anymore. Any suggestions?

tntlyz2016-06-141 point DOS version

to ME, try 1,2,1 as your selections for gameplay options

tntlyz2016-06-140 point DOS version

I still have the 5 1/2 inch floppies in the original box. Too bad the manual is missing

chizzy2016-05-120 point DOS version

i created a custom keyboard for playing this on my android using freebox.
youll need muliling o keyboard, then add this custom layout.
http://goo.gl/8XQiAa

me2016-03-281 point DOS version

every time I load civ, I get to select what screen, sound, mouse and keyboard options then immediately I'm dropped back to A: after it says integer div=a

goon2016-02-060 point

everytime i get mech inf it crashes so shit

thulee2015-12-282 points

I want a nice game

MS-DOS2015-12-153 points DOS version

Hi Gabek,
To run games such as Civilization, you get the application called DOSBOX (http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1). Use the wiki (http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Basic_Setup_and_Installation_of_DosBox) to help you mount games like Civ. Hopes this helps! :)
MS-DOS

gabeh2015-12-121 point

I tried to download civ on my Windows 7/64 laptop. I got an error message that civ was for 32 bit machine. Any suggestions?
Thanks

fdisk2015-11-10-2 points

manual (german):
http://hol.abime.net/3030/manual

praforplagues2015-10-26-4 points

To get DOSbox to go fullscreen, press alt enter. Press alt enter again to exit fullscreen.

xander102015-10-10-3 points DOS version

Civ ran fine and i really only can complain that i couldn't get DOSbox into fullscreen mode, any suggestions?

sid2015-09-090 point DOS version

my game wont save something about .map

Gato2015-08-150 point DOS version

Two teenage years of my life were ruled by Civ on the old Commode Amiga 64. I wasn't always the best player, I liked to avoid conflict and grow cities - so my games tended end close and exciting and often involve nuclear wars.
My brother edited many of the text boxes in the game with a textfile editor, including changing 'In the beginning story' to a humorous warped storyline. So if it was possible to customise then, it must be so now.
I will be downloading it again because years later I miss its simple yet engrossing fun. The later Civs just don't compare for me. And after reflection, instead of building perfect & populous cities, trying to live in peace and waiting until the Zulus rudely drop Armor units onto my turf in 1700 AD demanding dosh, I want to go and crush all rivals as soon as I can build my first chariot!
Shame I need Dosbox to run it in Windows 7, but oh well so be it.

civfan2015-06-031 point DOS version

the true test of this game series will be when the original players are eligible to run for office.

kiddxdeep2015-05-292 points DOS version

this is the best fucking website

syntotic2015-05-24-1 point DOS version

What happened to the Windows version of Civilization (I)? It was more playable than the DOS version and probably had some betterments.

Grand Gamer2015-03-16-3 points DOS version

Fucking Good!

EDO2015-01-1017 points DOS version

98% games works perfectly with dosbox. So does civ1. Yes even on windows on the year 3000. Just install dos box.
If you don't know how for each game here is how it goes the most simple way:
Make a folder on c: named DOSGames so you got c:dosgames
unrar/zip each game in its OWN folder inside the c:dosgames
E.G this game will be c:dosgamesciv1and doom will be c:dosgamesdoom1
Now start dosbox. type: ' Mount c: c:dosgames
type 'c:'
Type 'dir' for your list of games (shows the folders)
Now if you want to play civ
You type: 'cd civ' ( or what ever you named you folder for civ 1)
Followed by 'civ'
For e.g doom its 'cd doom' then 'doom'
Very easy.

NeptunesNookGames2014-12-180 point DOS version

I recently finished a let's play of Civ 1 on my YouTube channel, here's a link --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVDdlFy-Cu0&list=PL3Hfqo2_KOlcxDxyljLv3CwKfEy67IcTe

Alpha2014-09-010 point DOS version

Estou apaixonado por Renata Hass Betetto

Chizzard2014-08-080 point DOS version

Arvin. You can play Civilization 1 (DOS mode) by using a simple software called DOSbox. Its free. Just download DOSbox and dragon the civilization .exe to the DOSbox icon and youre good to go.

arvin2014-07-250 point DOS version

I have never seen such as this game in my life!
It was great.
Unbelievable
Design and Development and implementation of your strategy
By a simple game in DOS mode ! Almost 22 years ago !
Does anyone knows if it works in windows 7 ?
I wish I can play again !
Help me please. .

Sherbert T Cat2014-07-051 point DOS version

This is one of the greatest games ever created.

Great Game2014-07-012 points DOS version

Don't trust Ghandi

TheOlderGamePlay2014-06-18-2 points DOS version

7:Is one of the most awesome strategy game I have played.

Kynrek2014-06-11-1 point DOS version

AN Excellent SIM game!

Agentwindex2014-05-200 point DOS version

I loved this game.. Played it on Dos when Windows 98 was just starting.. I have the disk.. But was wondering will this download work on Windows 8 64 bit? Would love to play it again

alexakispantazo2014-05-10-1 point DOS version

It's the original DOS version 3 (474.03)

oscar2014-04-24-3 points DOS version

this is so amazing game!!!

ANSELMO2014-04-15-1 point DOS version

Excellent!

fresh and clean2014-04-04-2 points DOS version

happy

BrennenderStahl2014-03-140 point DOS version

now i'm playing freeciv - because its free software (free as in freedom)

Kal2014-02-130 point DOS version

After I select audio/graphic/keyboard options the game will not start and then opens up dos under the A: heading..

Sir Smith2014-01-281 point DOS version

This guide works for me. :)
http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Basic_Setup_and_Installation_of_DosBox

lawlcakes2014-01-240 point DOS version

@chris, Macedonia was to the north of Greece, but he did CONQUER Greece and almost the whole known world at the time, so both of you are right.

That guy2013-12-070 point DOS version

I'm on a mac, how do i start it?

ThatGuy2013-11-300 point DOS version

Someone PLEASE tell me the answers to the DOC check?

KoreusZ2013-10-130 point DOS version

I Have the actual game on cd, but it wont run in dosbox.

chris2013-08-010 point DOS version

@macedon
Yeah.. right.. pity for you, but Alexander was Greek and he united all Greeks against the Persians. Go cry more now.

jamesfrizzle2013-07-160 point DOS version

i downloaded dosbox 0.74 and when i open it there is 2 screens one of which is supposed to have a blue box in it, but that one is blank. What should I do?

Jules2013-07-110 point DOS version

Im running on windows xp, and when i open the downloaded file theres nothing there to click to start it. Any help?

StrateJay2013-06-020 point DOS version

Civ runs great I would say everyone into turn based strategy has to play it atleast once.

ToBeAdvised2013-05-200 point DOS version

So, this is were it all began.

NoiNha2013-05-010 point DOS version

nice game

Fred2013-04-211 point DOS version

The game randomly crashes when I attempt to change what a city is working on. It doesn't always, but, when it crashes, it's when I am changing city production.

Shuuriken2013-04-120 point DOS version

helpp..why i cant tun on the sound??? if i tun it on, it goes to error

onefromthenorth2013-04-030 point DOS version

Best game ever! Except for CivNET

se2013-03-160 point DOS version

Even better, just use this link to get the answers to all of the quiz questions.
http://www.civfanatics.com/civ1/manual/civ1_man.htm

ygv2013-03-150 point DOS version

Hola

necroscope862012-12-190 point DOS version

I used to love playing this game on my Amiga.

Northern Watch2012-12-040 point DOS version

You guys have to install dosbox (search google for it)
Open Dosbox
Type in mount c c:gamesciv (This is a example of where i put my game folder)
Type in C:
Type civ
And your playing the game now.
so long as they are in a Folder youll be able to play them through the dosbox

malachi2012-11-290 point DOS version

i have never played it

asdfq345987452012-11-200 point DOS version

Civilization has the weakest copy protection I've ever seen. It gives you the answers to its own doc check, and the doc check always occurs at 3000 BC, so you could just save the turn before that (3020 BC), and load if you fail the doc check. So easy.

S3nd412012-11-120 point DOS version

Does this have the security protection? It destroys all my units.

wilspiers2012-10-060 point DOS version

lol someone asked already thx

wilspiers2012-10-060 point DOS version

how do i play this game i cant get it to run

dafrandle2012-10-030 point DOS version

@jibba
use google

jibba2012-08-300 point DOS version

excellent game.thank you.ONE QUESTION.
How do you bypass the security check questions that randomly appear without having the original instructions manual?

MegaZero2012-08-090 point DOS version

Guys above, please look on youtube for a Dosbox tutorial

Tekdude2012-08-040 point DOS version

Working ok for me on Windows 7(64 bit) using DOSBox0.74.
I extracted it to a folder I named DOS on my 'D:' drive. It created a folder called CIV in it.
In DOSBox, at the 'Z:' prompt, I mounted the folder as my 'C:' drive by entering this command: mount c d:dosciv
After, I changed to my newly mounted 'C:' drive by entering: C: at the
'Z:' prompt.
Lastly, at the 'C:' prompt, I entered CIV (that is the executable file). You go through the SETUP and then INTRO and I was in.
Fun stuff. Hope this helps.

Confused Person2012-06-151 point DOS version

When I downloaded it, it was just a bunch of different files that I couldn't use. Help!

Anonymous2012-06-120 point DOS version

How do I make him run in DosBox?

Biscuitfondler2012-06-010 point DOS version

What about mac?

admin2012-05-040 point DOS version

'this download seems to be missing the executable file'
?? Double check this ;)

stasis062012-05-030 point DOS version

I've never plaid a game so much without getting bored of it. That being said, my Super Nintendo copy finally stopped working (NOOOOOO) and this download seems to be missing the executable file. I already have DOSBox and it won't open without the correct file. Any suggestions?

Danielle2012-03-110 point DOS version

One of the best games of all-time

Bill2011-12-24-1 point DOS version

It doesn't work with Windows 7. You have to use dosbox

Teabag2011-12-160 point DOS version

It is cool

archie2011-12-030 point DOS version

good !!!!

Slavic2011-06-050 point DOS version

How can you build your palace to the max?:O

Satanicus2011-06-020 point DOS version

Catdog@ None of Dos games works in Win7. Get DosBox to run it.

catdog2011-03-280 point DOS version

Does anyone know if this game runs with windows seven?

Buy Civilization Revolution

Purplekid2011-03-200 point DOS version

Best game ever made!!!!

Annie2011-03-170 point DOS version

Having trouble running this game on your OS? Try DosBox, or if it's not a dos game, take a look at the file extension and do a search for a like emulator.

Mismu2010-12-230 point DOS version

Dosbox fixes the problem :)

admin2010-10-260 point DOS version

Hmmm, no, no @Sim, it is in the archive.

Sim2010-10-261 point DOS version

execuable file is missing.

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vantaran2010-05-241 point DOS version

Civilization is one of the classics that defined PC gaming for the '90s. I spent whole days and nights playing the game, and it still has a firm lock on me today.

macedon2010-02-090 point DOS version

Alexander is Macedonian and emperor of Macedonians!

admin2009-11-101 point DOS version

The file works fine

dasada2009-11-070 point DOS version

zip file is broken

admin2008-03-270 point DOS version

Sid Meier's Civilization free full. download

I taking a look at this, please search again later ;)

CtB2008-03-240 point DOS version

any chance of getting the english version? I remember playing this too much at my Uncle's, it was like crack.

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• Year:1993
• Publisher:MicroProse Software, Inc.
• Developer:MicroProse Software, Inc.

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• Year:1993
• Publisher:MicroProse Software, Inc.
• Developer:MPS Labs

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• Year:1992
• Publisher:MicroProse Software, Inc.
• Developer:MPS Labs

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• Year:1993
• Publisher:MicroProse Ltd.
• Developer:MPS Labs

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