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Sid Meier's Civilization

How to play Sid Meier’s Civilization today

2025-02-17
By: Christian Cawley
On: February 17, 2025
In: How to run retro games

Sid Meier’s Civilization game series seems as though it has been around forever. Since its launch in the 1990s, the game series has gone from strength to strength, advancing graphically and introducing new game concepts and features. With its 7th desktop incarnation now available to play (and there are severalRead More →

Star Wars: Dark Forces Reverse Engineered with High Resolution, Widescreen and More

2022-12-30
By: Christian Cawley
On: December 30, 2022
In: Retro games news

Star Wars: Dark Forces was released in 1997 and served as a first person DOOM clone with Kyle Katarn as a mercenary working for the Rebellion to stop the development of a Dark Trooper program. (Katarn would eventually be revised as a latent Force sensitive who would appear in subsequentRead More →

You Can Now Run Windows 3.11 and Windows 95 on the A500 Mini

2022-06-17
By: Christian Cawley
On: June 17, 2022
In: Retro games news

The Amiga died because of the PC market, driven by IBM compatibles and Windows. But what if an A500 Mini could run Windows? Would that balance things out a bit? Of course, modern operating systems will not run on an Amiga, never mind an A500 Mini. But with the helpRead More →

1980s Classic MicroProse Soccer on Steam Is Inferior DOS Version

2021-03-12
By: Christian Cawley
On: March 12, 2021
In: Retro games news

Before Sensible Soccer there was MicroProse Soccer – and it’s now available on Steam. But this isn’t the classic Commodore 64 version. Why would anyone play the DOS version? Pre-match infodump: MicroProse Soccer was a top-down football simulation on the Commodore 64. Designed by Sensible Software with graphics by JonRead More →

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