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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!chris
- From: chris@actrix.gen.nz (Chris Double)
- Subject: Re: Civilization
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 01:37:28 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan29.013728.9251@actrix.gen.nz>
- Keywords: Games
- References: <kwhelan.51@neptune.uark.edu>
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- In article <kwhelan.51@neptune.uark.edu> kwhelan@neptune.uark.edu (Kenneth Whelan) writes:
- >
- > Has anyone gotten Civilization to run at full speed under OS/2. Seems that
- > it doesn't like the way the graphics are running and it slows down to a
- > crawl when run in a VDM. I also tried in a Dos 5.0 session and then I get
- > some sort of fatal error.
- There are a series of patches available for Civilization that allow
- it to run under OS/2 very well. The patches also change/add some
- features to the game.
-
- The latest I know of is CIV04.ZIP (I think) and is probably
- available on ftp.ulowell.edu in the Games/Patches directory
- somewhere. Try searching on archie for a name similar to CIV04.
-
- Regards,
-
- Chris Double.
- chris@actrix.gen.nz
-