[wing-_-nuts]

I've recently installed freeciv after struggling in vain to get civ II running on linux. I'll admit I haven't really given it a full chance, but I dearly miss civ II. Apparently one can get it working by installing dosbox, win 3.1 on dosbox, then civ II, but I haven't gotten around to attempting that.

[AlecSchueler]

You can also use the civ2 ruleset and grab a civ 2 tileset in Freeciv. That way you get the same look and behaviour as you may be missing.

I'm sure someone has probably recreated the campaigns too, though you would be missing the memorable FMV sequences.

[aasasd]

If neither Wine nor VMs work for you for some reason, you might actually have an easier time with emulating classic MacOS. There are emulators specifically for it, they have to impersonate just very few models of the hardware, so success is basically guaranteed. The most annoying parts of the experience are if the emulator is too barebones, and that some sites insist on distributing Mac software in ‘StuffIt’ archives, which require a proprietary program in Mac itself, and can't just be uncompressed on the host system.

[spapas82]

I'm using this setup (win 3.1 on dosbox) to run mordor, an old shareware rpg. It works great I totally recommend giving it a try with civ II!

[suby]

I have civ ii working on wine without a problem. It's worked with every version of wine I've tried going back to like 2017. I have both the multiplayer gold edition and the original and I'm pretty sure both should work without any fuss.

[antifa]

Last time I tried, I had an easier time getting Civ2 MGE working on wine than freeciv.