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by brandnewlow 3779 days ago
I've played 1-5 extensively and Civ III is the most fun by far.

Anyone know how I can get Civ III on a Mac?

It's been "not available" here forever: http://www.aspyr.com/games/sid-meiers-civilization-iii-compl...

I've tried playing the Windows version via Parallels but it fails out during load.

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Have you tried it with Wine? Wineskin (http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/) lets you package Wine installs as self-contained Mac apps, which takes most of the hassle out of it.
I will give it a go!
Go here http://paulthetall.com/civilization-3-mac/ and follow the instructions. It's a wine wrapper that's already configured specifically for Civ III
I have gotten it to run in Wine before, after struggles with `lsans.fot`.
This is how I play Civ 3, and it works great except that it hangs on exit. Fine by me.