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Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 50: Dawn of Civilization

Return to Part 1: Dumpster Diving Continued from Part 49: One More to Go! Carrying on in Part 51: It’s Not Easy Being Green Return to Part 1: Dumpster Diving [https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part50.html](https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part50.html) Last edited by Hamish on 9 Feb 2026 at 8:01 pm UTC For me, CtP is THE best Civ ever made: There are so many amazing game concepts which totaly ouclass basically anything ever implemented on any of SM Civs, that any SM Civ I played was just too boring for me (maybe with the exception of Civ V). I hope it's not true because it would be depressing to wait for over a year for Quake 2 and Ultima Online: 1994 Doom, Doom 2 1995 Abuse, SimCity 1996 Inner Worlds, Quake 1997 Nothing? I thought that LinCycles from 1996 was a commercial title, but a comment from the author is odd, and I have some doubts: https://happypenguin.altervista.org/sheet.php?gameid=57 Quoting: HamishOn a separate but related tangent, whether Call to Power was the first or second Linux game to be sold at retail is somewhat muddied by the fact that Macmillan Publishing announced their boxed Quake releases on May 13, 1999 (my fifth birthday) while Call to Power did not start shipping until May 15, 1999 despite being announced months earlier.I don't know it.