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[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Call to power really was a "let's throw everything in there and the kitchen sink." No other civ game has approached it's sheer amount of random unbalanced shit crammed into it. Not even alpha centari or beyond earth.

[-] Nighed@feddit.uk 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's a shame they never made a second one, I remember it being pretty good.

All games were good when I was that age though....

[-] absquatulate@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They did. It wasn't quite as good ( awful UI iirc ), but still a decent game. You can get it on gog too

[-] naticus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I'm torn between whether they meant they didn't know there was a second game or if it's like me saying it's too bad there was never a second Matrix movie.

[-] miguel@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago

I love that game, I still play it all the time. It's one of my absolute favorites.

[-] Someplaceunknown@leminal.space 2 points 4 months ago

Please upload a disk image to the internet archive

[-] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

I have to find a working drive first x)

[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 points 4 months ago
[-] mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Usually there is an issue with glibc or Mesa compatibility.

...Does this game use Mesa?

[-] donio@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I am only guessing and extrapolating based on how this usually goes:

  • It's probably possible to get it to run but would take a lot of work
  • It's probably much easier to just run the windows version under Wine

While the Linux kernel usually maintains long term backward compatibility very well unfortunately the userspace (libraries) is a different story.

Looking at the game's faq the main dependency seems to be SDL. There is no OpenGL or other 3D library requirement. It might also depend on which version was shipped on the CD according to the faq there was an earlier statically linked version (which I am guessing might be easier to get to run) and a later dynamically linked one.

[-] Tundra@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

its german. für, for

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