Category Archives: Video Games

I have a long night programming behind me: hacking a file format of a DOS based accounting program. Fair enough: no game for me today. I did notice that my entries here about the black tile problems get more views … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I ‘har-harred’ about ‘Edelweiss’, the oh-so-pretty-sugar-song1 from ‘The Sound of Music’, which I thought I recognized in Civilization. Guess what, it’s a music theme triggered when the player enters the ‘Industrial Age’. This had me go promptly back to … Continue reading →

Playing the second rounds of CivIV, this time trying to stick to a religion and spread it, I ended up founding not 1, not 2, but 3 (three) religions, meaning I was generally ahead of my competitors in Warlord level … Continue reading →

Finishing one game of Civ4, I did another try and ended up with an ‘endless’ black map. I gave up at 1200 AD: the blackness, it hurts. What the heck: it’s a bug. Over at Apolyton some are convinced that … Continue reading →

Managed to get ‘Civilization 4’, the long expected successor of (ha, you guessed it) ‘Civilization 3’. According to EB Games, the game came just in today. Short overview: I had a hard time at the start after installing the game: … Continue reading →