[rrreese]

What I find fascinating about this project is it’s longevity. It was started in 1995, a year before Civ II came out. I remember playing it in 2000. And here it is still going. Development is pretty active and there is even a 3D mode.

[catach]

An interesting thing about Open Source game projects is that, if successful, they only ever work on that one game.

[mikepurvis]

It depends on the game/engine. ScummVM plays dozens (hundreds?) of games of course, but even something like OpenRA plays Dune 2000, C&C, and also Red Alert.

[DaedPsyker]

Is this in terms of contributors?

[keyle]

A miracle or a curse?

[Hamcha]

I beg to differ, the real beauty is how anyone can fork them to follow their own vision e.g. Open TTD has a fork with bundled community patches dating decades that never landed in the main game, or Space Station 13, a game that plays completely different depending on which codebase you play (they don't even have matching licenses anymore, and all of them copyleft).

There's even a nice talk on SS13 specifically since the project is massive and sees changed ever hour (in a single version, let alone all versions or even the multiple remakes currently in development): https://youtu.be/z5sjwqUten0

[wing-_-nuts]

I've recently installed freeciv after struggling in vain to get civ II running on linux. I'll admit I haven't really given it a full chance, but I dearly miss civ II. Apparently one can get it working by installing dosbox, win 3.1 on dosbox, then civ II, but I haven't gotten around to attempting that.

[AlecSchueler]

You can also use the civ2 ruleset and grab a civ 2 tileset in Freeciv. That way you get the same look and behaviour as you may be missing.

I'm sure someone has probably recreated the campaigns too, though you would be missing the memorable FMV sequences.

[aasasd]

If neither Wine nor VMs work for you for some reason, you might actually have an easier time with emulating classic MacOS. There are emulators specifically for it, they have to impersonate just very few models of the hardware, so success is basically guaranteed. The most annoying parts of the experience are if the emulator is too barebones, and that some sites insist on distributing Mac software in ‘StuffIt’ archives, which require a proprietary program in Mac itself, and can't just be uncompressed on the host system.

[spapas82]

I'm using this setup (win 3.1 on dosbox) to run mordor, an old shareware rpg. It works great I totally recommend giving it a try with civ II!

[suby]

I have civ ii working on wine without a problem. It's worked with every version of wine I've tried going back to like 2017. I have both the multiplayer gold edition and the original and I'm pretty sure both should work without any fuss.