Let's Play Civilization 2! - Part 1: The Rise of Rome in the Ancient Era
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- Civilization 6 announced, so let's step back in time to Civ 2. Works perfectly except the no music issue which I explain below. I also played Civilization 1 : • The Original Sid Meier... AND Civilization 3 : • CIVILIZATION III HD! ►...
0:00 | Setup
4:54 | Gameplay
#AbandonwareAdventures is a format where I find a good old game that is no longer for sale and play some of it. These are often PC games from my childhood that have been abandoned and I think need to be looked at again.
Wikipedia: "Abandonware is a product, typically software, ignored by its owner and manufacturer, and for which no product support is available. Although such software is usually still under copyright, the owner may not be tracking or enforcing copyright violations."
Although some games may be 'officially' or technically labelled freeware, I will count it as a possible choice in this #abandonware series as long as it fits the definition above.
How to run #Civilization II on modern operating systems:
1. Download the game
2. Install K-Codec Pack (it's included in the main folder)
3. Once installed, in Start Menu, find and run 'Codec Tweak Tool'
4. In the tool, in the section "Codec and Filter Management" click on 'ACM/VFW (x86)'
5. On the popup, scroll down to 'DISABLED CODECS' and check the box for 'Indeo 4'
6. Click 'Apply & Close'
7. Exit the tweak tool
8. Now you can launch the game executing 'Civ2.exe' inside the folder 'Civilization 2'
NOTE ON MUSIC: This new method includes everything except the music! Still no music will play unless you have a CD with the music files mounted in D:\ drive. It's complicated, Civ 2 had music by basically being a CD with the music on the 'B-Side', as it acted as an actual music CD. Most ISO and disc image files you find won't have the music files at all and if you have a second hard drive already set to D:\ then it's a big mess. You can however download the songs you want online and play them in the background, it's just it will keep playing during monument cinematics and diplomacy screens, which is not ideal but likely what you have to deal with.
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Thanks for watching! - Ігри
I also played Civ 3, check that out here! - ua-cam.com/video/yf9dm2BRPjA/v-deo.html
And you can check out more abandonware in the full playlist here! - ua-cam.com/play/PLYVqUDxY6COiK5C-7dzoIZRAPeGJ51KcZ.html
So many memories, I feel 12 all over again! 😁
The music really gets you right? Haha
One tip, NEVER, ever, NEVER build cities with "free" settlers, keep them as workers instead. You PAY the settler you crafted each turn, use it to expand by founding new cities, not making roads and mines and whatnot.
Best Civ of them all. Not to complicated, not too simple. Loved the advisors
+Igor Welkenbach This games AI is currently studied in universities.... and its 2016
source? cant find anything
Nicely put :)
Agree
Awesome, this was my favorite game for so many years, if one can have a favorite game among all the good ones.
"just gives one shield" , mountain gives +200% defence bonus...
What time in the video did I say that? I was probably just talking about yields and one shield of production isn't a lot.
This was the first Civ I played.So many memories.
+balzarharry - Yeah, I started with this one too. Probably spent the most time overall with it too out of the whole series.
I started with the very first and never played past the second one
@@GamerZakh same
Thanks a lot for explaining why the music won't work even when having an official game CD. We bought a box with Civ I - IV once but had trouble with the music for Civ II. We never understood that, we resorted to making a playlist of Civ II music on UA-cam and playing that in the background, lol.
Yeah, a lot of old games do that. They read the music off the disk because it would take too much space on the limited hard drives of the time. Some games don't care which drive it is but the game will only check the CD drive the game was installed from. Age of Empires 1 had 2 soundtracks, an MP3 one and a Midi one, where it would read the MP3 off the disk if available but it would install the Midi tracks onto the computer because they were really small files and play those if there was no CD available. Civ 2 was more extreme, only checking D:/
I always felt so happy to get a wonder video.
+Bluesquidify - I'm looking forward to seeing one. It's been so long since I have.
i'm glad i decided to look through Zakh's older videos, if this can get my Test of Time running, i'll be real happy.
Hey not many back here! I did get Test of Time running back then but I never made a video. Can't remember if it was the same process.
@@GamerZakh I downloaded the patch, did the thing and it worked. So happy, I haven't played this game in what, 15 years?
That's awesome! Have fun!
CIV 2 IS THE BEST
Does anyone know if Civ2 has hi-res open-source mod somewhere? like Caesar III has, Julius Mod... wich makes it look so polished and well aged...
Civ2 doesnt look it's aged very well by now haa... i loved civ2.. not sure.. civ3-6 just dont click with me... maybe it's the nostalgia talking...
If you have the right .bin and .cue files and mount them with the right software, you can in fact get the music working without an original CD and without the mounted image having to be drive D. I got it working as E, for example
When you eliminate a "color", say white, the "next" white civ spawns in its place. For example, first white civ is the Romans, second is the Russians. If you kill the Romans, the Russians spawn instead. If you kill them, there's another (3 civs per color) one to spawn, the Celts. Not sure what happens if you kill that one too.
You're the King baby
civ 2 is the best. I would always city spam like crazy and play a super wide empire
Games have gone a long way graphics wise, but not so imaginary wise.
thx just got the game last week its amazing just wanted too watch a gameplay :)
Doge! How is your gameplay going? Are you on Deity yet?
I was like 10 years old when I started to play Civ 2 and I didnt realised I have to keep CD in my CD-drive to a play and enjoy music... I always just carefully placed CD into its CD cover and played without music :D :D :D so now after years when I hear soundtracks of Civ 2 it brings me no nostalgic memories :((((( so sad.... anyway great lets play, civilization is the best in my opinion :)))
keep doing great videos!!!
It's even more confusing with Age of Empires 1. If the CD was in it would play the MP3 soundtrack but without the CD it played the MIDI soundtrack, so people have memories of two different sets of songs.
@@GamerZakh hahah :D those were the times and its struggle :D Amazing how memory works in case of nostalgic games, I still remember and can recognise almost all world wonders only by music :))))) These games will never lose their value! :)))
Ah! I used to direct my advances to Democracy as quick as I could... Then build Statue of Liberty..and turn into a fundamentalist government. And try conquer everyone before they turned fundamentalist. It was fun.
OMG this is awesome! Can you also do Galactic Civilization after this?
+Valar D. - Haha one step at a time. I've never played Gal Civ, so it's a bit harder for me to make nostalgic content.
After chariots were overpowered for the early game in Civ1, they apparently nerfed their attack score in this game. I always thought there was an obvious problem with the prerequisites though - chariots should require knowledge of horseback riding in addition to the wheel. I'm surprised they still didn't add that requirement for Civ2.
With a chariot you aren't technically riding the horse but you are domesticating it all the same so it's really the same technical/cultural development IMO.
I think "horseback riding" really just represents the knowledge of domesticating animals, horses in this case, to do useful work. That technology could have been renamed and applied toward agriculture as well.
Chariots have 2 moves, so they are quite balanced I think. Legion has double attack but only one move.
Finally won this game on Deity, 25 years after my first game, simply by spamming loads of small cities close together, building ZERO buildings, caravans for a handful of wonders (mainly happiness and miltary) and a totally oversized horde of crusaders, which later become dragoons and cavalry with Leo's workshop, and lots of diplomats to take down city walls and buy enemy cities. It's a lot easier than I thought!
Great video, as a Greek though I have to say phalanx is pronounced falanx, not fay lanx
The music used to stop for no reason on the original game back in the day.
That's likely to do with how this game handles music. The CD was actually formatted as a music disc, like if you buy an album from an artist. It played the music if you popped it into a CD player. On computers, that can mess up in a few ways.
i like senate movies in this game
I thought this video was for installation?
Where's the install instructions to get it to work for Windows 10?
It's in the description, I put a step-by-step guide that I used. Windows 10 is always changing though, it's been a long time since I did this myself.
I have never played as anyone other than the English on any Civ game from Civ2 to Civ6. Lmao.
Do you happen to know when this game became abandonware
The term 'abandonware' is not really a proper defining term, so it'd be hard to pinpoint a date. I just consider something abandonware once it's no longer supported and isn't sold anywhere official. Publishers often call them 'legacy games' or something.
+GamerZakh cheers was just wondering when will civ 3 become one it will be a sad day
@@GamerZakh Although the definition is somewhat debatable, abandonware means a few concrete things. The publisher and manufacturer no longer sell it or support it. The code is also open for somebody else to use. Somebody could potentially make another Civ II because the code is open. I would love to think that somebody will just make a Win 11 version and charge € 1 per sale.
@@mikeoyler2983 Even if the code is open, that doesn't mean you can legally sell a game using its exact code or what would more likely get you sued is reusing the music, cinematics, and graphics. Even if a company says "yeah you can use this", that's never a legal safeground unless you've signed a contract with the IP owners. Companies can change their minds at any time about that. Legally, 'abandonware' just doesn't exist. No software is ever legally 'abandoned', there's only IP owners who don't bother enforcing their legal rights or the IP owner can't be proven so no one can take action. Generally, once someone starts trying to profit directly, a lawsuit or C&D comes in pretty quick.
In fact, the most likely reason why there isn't already a Civ 2 release on GOG is because of IP ownership issues. I don't know who owns what, but Microprose, Sid Meier, Firaxis, Hasbro, Activision, and maybe other companies too are likely complicating a Civ 2 release today. Microprose was bought by Hasbro. Hasbro published Test of Time. Activision has some ownership of 'Civilization'. Avalon Hill might've had deals made in the 90s. Microprose then sold to Infogrames then Interactive Game Group and then to Cybergun and it's not clear what IPs went with which sale. So it's very likely that the Civ 2 IPs are now owned across many different companies and unless all IP owners agree, you can't sell Civ 2 today.
If anything, you can figure it out by trying to sell Civ 2 and seeing who sues you for it haha
Wow. Changing city production in this game is really costly.
+Neil B - Yeah, it's to prevent you building up and instantly getting a wonder when a tech is discovered I think.
How did you get the music?
The only way is if the disc or iso file is in D drive. Any other drive and it won't read the music.
@@GamerZakh already tried but it doesn't work sadly, but thanks for replying anyways lad!
my game wont start anymore (windows10), a view Years ago it did run flawless.
Yeah Windows 10 keeps changing, so often an old game that works today doesn't work tomorrow. There is a way to still play it but I can't tell you anything on UA-cam.
@@GamerZakh got it working again.
@@AccountName-gv5ie That's great!
Different tribes get different technlogies researched off the bat
+Igor Welkenbach - I tried restarting choosing Roman every time and it's random. You can start with as little as roads, mining, irrigation or up to 6 techs including code of laws.
GamerZakh U sure it doesnt change based on tribe too? I remember having read something in the manual some 12 years in the past... maybe im misremembering...
+Igor Welkenbach - It could be which techs you can start with are different. That would make sense. I just find it weird how you could start with 3 techs or nothing and even 2 settlers just based on RNG.