Sid Meier Inducted Into Computer Hall Of Fame

Thanks to Firaxis for their press release revealing their founder Sid Meier has been inducted into the Computer Museum of America's Hall of Fame, after the museum "asked the public to choose their favorite innovators", joining gaming luminaries such as Nolan Bushnell and fellow inductees such as Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Jay Miner. Meier is best known for classic Microprose games such as Civilization, and GameSpot has an update on his latest title, a remake of Pirates!, noting it's "known to utilize the GameBryo 3D engine used by the Morrowind and Dark Age of Camelot series", and touting "multiple paths to a wealthy, happy [piratical] retirement."

Congrats Sid Meier

[saramakos]

I can only say this is a well deserved induction. The first game I ever ignored real life for was Civilisation and I have been a rabid fan of the series since!

Re:Congrats Sid Meier

[jabberjaw]

Now if only I could get it for my mac! Arrgh!

Re:Congrats Sid Meier

[herulach]

Surely you can get wine? Civ 2 and 3 both work fine IIRC. I dont know if theres an OSX port of WIne, but if not its trivial to set up a small linux partion to use it.

Re:Congrats Sid Meier

[T-Ranger]

Uh, no. WINE (while not an emulator) emulates the Windows OS, and its APIs. It does not emulate (or even virtualize) hardware. Macs run on different hardware then Windows.

That being said, while I havent seen any recently (not ever caring to look), at one point you could get a 'pc on a card' for your Mac (And Sparcsation, for that matter). They included (at least) a Intel chip, and enough bios code and glue to pop up a PC in a window on your mac.

Re:Congrats Sid Meier

[herulach]

My apologies, i have only experience with wine on x86 machines, i imagined it would run on anything. How about bochs [sourceforge.net] then? or this [sourceforge.net] looks to be in a pretty early stage though.

Re:Congrats Sid Meier

[T-Ranger]

The first might be helpfull for a non-developer trying to run windows stuff on a non-PC. The later is just a port of winelib. Winelib is of interest only to existing windows programmers who want to port stuff to linux (or Darwin with this).. Winelib is like GTK for Windows.

Re:Congrats Sid Meier

[skarmor]

emulate != emulator Cheers!

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Re:Civ3 for OS X

[jabberjaw]

Hmm... well damn I feel rather like an idiot now. Thanks for the link.

Lovely game

[dtfinch]

I was addicted to both 1 and 2. My interest was revitalized when I downloaded the final Civ2 patch, which made the gameplay an order of magnitude less tedious. I don't have 3 though. Work and college have cut short my gaming life.

Re:Lovely game

[Vaevictis666]

Nonono... College isn't cutting short gaming time - College was always about 10 hours a day of free time for me. It's the job while you're in college that will cut down your gaming time. As does the job by itself after college.

Re:Lovely game

[Radius9]

Don't you mean that gaming has cut short your work and college life?

Re:Considering Sid ripped off Avalon Hill

[Babbster]

I'm surprised that anyone would say anything so stupid. Sid Meier's library of games BEFORE Civilization would make him a legendary designer. Furthermore, just about anyone who's designed a role-playing game has ripped off AD&D - does that mean that they should all be considered hacks, ineligible for honors?

Ad&d took a number of ideas from lord of the r

[voss]

Mithral armor,etc...vorpal blades...etc.etc

Re:Considering Sid ripped off Avalon Hill

[Anonymous Coward]

Except that, oops, Microprose actually had permission [wargamer.com] to use the Civilization name for the original Sid Meier version. My copy of the game even had a card inside advertising the board game.

Re:Considering Sid ripped off Avalon Hill

[Fred IV]

I saw Civ III board games on sale at Borders post-Xmas...don't know if it was the same as the original, it was branded with Sid's name on the cover.

FIV

Pirates was a great educational game

[Prien715]

But that's not something I realized when I first started to play it.

Consider this comment I made on slashdot a couple weeks ago [slashdot.org]:
" I was sitting in 6th grade class and my teacher was talking about pirates during the Spanish empire. Someone asked why they didn't use large warships like galleons and instead preferred smaller vessels. I raised my hand and answered that larger vessels are often at the mercy of the wind. Smaller vessels, like Sloops, typically had oars. Even if the wind weren't going your way, it was possible to board a ship.

The teacher asked where I learned that, and I felt kind've embaressed. I couldn't really say a Nintendo game could I?"

Aside from maritime combat history, I also learned the name of most of the towns and islands in the Carribean. When's the last time a game did that for you=)

destiny of an emperor

[kootch]

Destiny of an Emperor on Nintendo [videogamereviews.vg].

Taught me all about the waring states period

Re:destiny of an emperor

[Anonymous Coward]

Correcting spelling on Slashdot is more than a hobby, it's a full-time occupation.

Re:Pirates was a great educational game

[Descartes]

I think the other benefit of the sloops are that they can turn much more quickly. I don't know how realistic the ship combat in Pirates! was because I'd usually just try to get behind the galleons and tack back and forth while firing. I imagine some captain would figure out how to mount cannon on the stern of the ship to stop that strategy.

I think I learned more about how colonial history formed then about anything else. After conquering a few towns for whatever country I was representing it made a lot more sense that places like Haiti and the Dominican republic existed.

Re:Pirates was a great educational game

[Anonymous Coward]

That is actually a legitimate naval tactic called "Crossing the T."

British Navy used it for years. Even if they have 1 gun on the stern/bow, you have your whole broadside to them.

Re:Pirates was a great educational game

[Hits_B]

I learned that I had a long lost father, long lost mother, long lost uncle, long lost sister, long lost brother.....did I miss anything?

Speaking of which...

[T-Ranger]

Has anyone gotten Pirates! to work under Frodo, or any other '64 emulator for that matter? Every once in a while I download Frodo again, and immedeaitly try to run Pirates!, but it crashes after I set up my character.. Grr..

Why emulate?

[Prien715]

There's a native windows version here [the-underdogs.org] while there's also a Nintendo version (the state of NES emulation is extremely good).

Re:Speaking of which...

[MrHanky]

I've played Pirates! a lot in the Amiga emulator UAE. It's actually one of the few really old games that I've spent serious time with. That is, old enough to need an emulator. UAE needs a bit more work than Frodo does; you'll have to get hold of a Workbench ROM for the Amiga.

Re:GameBryo

[dsyu]

I was fairly certain that Morrowind used the NetImmerse engine. Am I wrong?

NDL's GameBryo is the "next generation" of NetImmerse. Take a gander at the following interview [avault.com] for some info.

You've got to love a game that fits on 2 floppies

[citadelgrad]

Greetings from he who makes mortals tremble!

We note that your civilization has not even discovered the Internet. Do you care to exchange knowledge with us?

We ignore your hollow threats!!

Re:You've got to love a game that fits on 2 floppi

[Zack Evergreen]

Humble Greetings from Emporer Cheesy Poof of Hatia, if one of your foolish Clintonite leaders offer us ten billion dollars, then Governor Dorito gets to retire early and we can still treat our people like dirt. Hurray!

CPU Bach

[robbway]

CPU Bach was my favorite simulation from Sid Meier. I'm not sure why algorithmic random music generation never really took off. My version is the 3DO version, which I still have. After listening to it repeatedly, there were several movements you kept hearing over and over. Still, and excellent non-game program in a genre that never really got off the ground.

For a complete listing of Meier's accomplishments, Gamespot has The Sid Meier Legacy [gamespot.com].

Sid Meyer Worship

[Zack Evergreen]

*Builds Shrine to Sim Meyer as the 32nd wonder of the internet world*

*Geeks Beet Zack to it*

*Switches to fundementalism and delivers Slashdot from the Comunist open sourcers*

On a completely unrelated note (or is it?) why don't non breaking spaces work? Anyone know why?

i worked at microprose and met sid

[witts]

I worked at the old Microprose office in Hunt Valley, MD and my office was just across the hall from Sid's. He had the biggest office there, IIRC. I actually got to shake his hand and get a good look at his office. He always seemed to be a little removed from the rest of Microprose programmers, not in a bad way, but just in his own league. I use to see him at the local mall with his then young son. He gave the impression of being a content, happy person. People always seemed to say his name in a whisp