.The Civilization Page is a repository of information on various games that are titled Civilization. The first such game was the board game Civilization from Avalon Hill (actually, I believe they picked it up from another game company). Avalon Hill then later released an expansion set called Advanced Civilization.
Sid Meier liked the game, and created the computer game Civilization, which is published by Microprose. This game became immensly popular, and as a result, a networked version was later released called CivNET. Also, Microprose is working on a newer version, Civilization II.
About the same time Micrprose released CivNET, Avalon Hill released a computer version of Advanced Civilization.
Those are the commercial products under the name Civilization. In addition, people have created expansion rules for the board game, and cracks, cheats, and editors for the computer games. Also, some adventurous programmers have started work on their own games that are loosly based on the same concept as the Avalon Hill and Microprose products.
Here's what's changed around here lately:
2/22/97 -- Added FAT version of civfix [Mac Civ Page], links to other CivNET [CivNET page] and Civ II [Civ II page] sites.
2/9/97 -- Added rumor about Civ II for the Mac possibly coming to light [Mac Civ Page].
1/20/97 -- Added speed report for Civ II on SoftWindows 95 on PPC 604 machines [Mac Civ Page].
1/17/97 -- Added more information on SNES Civ [MP Civ Page], added new military variant for the board game [AH Board Game Variants Page], added more links to CivNET sites [CivNET page], totally redid the Mac civ page, updating the information and organizing it better [Mac Civ page], added a survey for user feedback [Civ Page Survey].
11/30/96 -- New Mac Civ Updater [Mac Civ page], new board game variant [AH Board Game Variants page], and added a CSV version of the civ calculator [AH Board Game page].
11/25/96 -- Added information about Civ mailing list[CivNews Mailing List Page].
11/22/96 -- Updated tidbits about Civ and Civ II for Mac. Fixed broken links to Microprose Pages [Mac Civ page].
9/21/96 -- Added information on where to purchase Civ for the Mac [Mac Civ Page].
4/28/96 -- Microprose announced they are not abandoning the Mac [Mac Civ Page] [Civ II page].
