Civ III updates
I think I'll buy Civ III for the Mac as soon as the school year is over. I'm not letting a game interfere with my studies.
I looked on the website and can only find reference to the Winblows version. Is there a separate site for Mac users, or what? is it not even officily released for Mac yet? I ask because I rarely use a 1.0 of a program, I always wait for the .1 or .2 so that bugs and balance issues are adressed.
I looked on the website and can only find reference to the Winblows version. Is there a separate site for Mac users, or what? is it not even officily released for Mac yet? I ask because I rarely use a 1.0 of a program, I always wait for the .1 or .2 so that bugs and balance issues are adressed.
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just ordered this and Black & White (which is now version 1.1)
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giants is next
All in all, though, it's very stable (no crashes yet...) and seems to be a very quality piece of software.
Just a couple things:
1) You must have a monitor capable of 1024 x 768 resolution. Preferably higher.
2) You WILL be addicted, so make sure you've got everything important out of the way before you take off the shrinkwrap.
-Ender
Wesley
Oh, I also have a geforce2Mx ... not sure how much is helping, but its probably better than the rage128 i had ...
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See, the easiest method of moving your pieces around on the map is with the keypad. Unfortunately, you also need the rest of the keyboard for useful shortcut keys. So when you activate the keypad on laptops, it turns the rest of the keyboard off. To play effectively, you have to switch back and forth between keypad and keyboard. Bummer.
Of course, there are other ways of moving (mouse, err... trackpad, 'go to' locations, etc.) but none work quite as well as the keypad.
-Ender
<strong>See, the easiest method of moving your pieces around on the map is with the keypad. Unfortunately, you also need the rest of the keyboard for useful shortcut keys. So when you activate the keypad on laptops, it turns the rest of the keyboard off. To play effectively, you have to switch back and forth between keypad and keyboard. Bummer.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I have a Pismo, and I always just use the "fn" key to activate the keypad for that keystroke only. You don't have to use it with the number lock.
So just hold 'fn' when you play Civ, and you can move stuff around just fine.
Wesley
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<strong>civ 3 updates update:
<a href="http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ArticleID=4852" target="_blank">http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ArticleID=4852</a>
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I was hoping ot have the update for my Civ fest this weekend ...