Timeline
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This is the timeline of games inspired by the early Civilization. The dates, are represented as YYYY MM/DD.
By the way, Carl-Magnus Dumell did a small project paper on The History of Civilization.
[edit] The timeline
1969 ??/?? - The Sumer Game - Written by Richard Merrill in FOCAL-69
1973 ??/?? - Hamurabi BASIC rewrite of The Sumer Game first appeared as HMRABI in digital's "101 BASIC Computer Games" edited by David Ahl.
1981 ??/?? - Civilization The board game
1981 ??/?? - Utopia Intellevision
1982 ??/?? - Utopia Aquarius
1982 ??/?? - Hamurabi HP-75C, 4K and a Basic interpreter
1984 ??/?? - Incunabula DOS
1988 ??/?? - Age Civilization - Extension to the original board game
1991 ??/?? - Advanced Civilization Another board game
1991 08/?? - Civilization I Amiga 500
1991 11/12 - Civilization I DOS
1992 ??/?? - Civilization I Macintosh
1993 ??/?? - Civilization I Amiga 1200
1993 ??/?? - Civilization I Atari ST
1994 10/02 - Civilization I Windows
1994 ??/?? - Civilization I SNES
1994 ??/?? - Civilization I Sega Genesis
1994 ??/?? - Galactic Civilizations for OS/2
1994 ??/?? - colonization 1 comes out.
1995 11/09 - Civ net
1995 11/14 - Freeciv started.
1996 ??/?? - Advanced Civilization Computer version of the board game
1996 ??/?? - Age of Renaissance A civlike board game
1996 01/05 - Freeciv 1.0
1996 01/08 - Freeciv 1.0a
1996 01/11 - Freeciv 1.0b
1996 01/12 - Freeciv 1.0c
1996 01/19 - Freeciv 1.0d
1996 01/26 - Freeciv 1.0e
1996 01/26 - Freeciv 1.0f
1996 02/16 - Freeciv 1.0h
1996 03/05 - Civilization II
1996 05/01 - Freeciv 1.0i
1996 04/08 - Freeciv 1.0j
1996 08/10 - Freeciv 1.0k
1997 ??/?? - Great Nations started.
1997 ??/?? - Freeciv 1.2.0
1997 ??/?? - Freeciv 1.3.0
1997 ??/?? - Freeciv 1.3.1
1997 ??/?? - Freeciv 1.4.0
1997 ??/?? - Freeciv 1.4.1
1997 ??/?? - Freeciv 1.4.2
1997 ??/?? - Freeciv 1.4.3
1997 ??/?? - Freeciv 1.4.4
1997 ??/?? - Freeciv 1.4.5
1997 ??/?? - Freeciv 1.4.6
1997 ??/?? - Freeciv 1.5.0
1997 ??/?? - Freeciv 1.5.1
1997 12/11 - Great Nations 1.0
1998 02/15 - Great Nations 1.1
1998 02/22 - Freeciv 1.5.2
1998 03/09 13:25:47 PST - Freeciv codebase brought into CVS
1998 03/08 - Freeciv 1.5.3
1998 04/27 - Great Nations 1.2
1998 04/28 - Great Nations 1.2.1
1998 04/30 - Freeciv 1.5.4
1998 ??/?? - Freeciv 1.6.0
1998 06/03 - Freeciv 1.6.1
1998 06/05 - Freeciv 1.6.2
1998 06/08 - Freeciv 1.6.3
1998 07/28 - Freeciv 1.6.4
1998 08/20 Civilization II Multiplayer Gold Edition
1998 08/06 - Freeciv 1.7.0
1998 09/02 - Freeciv 1.7.1
1998 10/30 - Great Nations 1.3.0
1998 12/12 - Great Nations 1.3.1
1998 12/23 - Freeciv 1.7.2
1999 02/09 - Alpha Centauri
1999 04/02 - Freeciv 1.8.0
1999 04/05 - Civilization CTP
1999 05/15 - Civilization CTP Linux
1999 05/21 - Civilization II Test of Time
1999 06/07 - Great Nations 1.4.0
1999 06/08 - Great Nations 1.4.1
1999 07/08 - Freeciv 1.8.1
1999 10/19 - Freeciv 1.9.0
1999 12/06 - Great Nations 1.5.0
2000 02/21 - Freeciv 1.10.0
2000 03/05 - Great Nations 1.6.0
2000 04/30 - Alpha Centauri MAC
2000 06/29 - Freeciv 1.11.0
2000 07/20 - Freeciv 1.11.4
2001 ??/?? - Alpha Centauri Linux
2001 08/10 - Freeciv 1.12.0
2001 09/13 - Great Nations 1.6.2
2001 10/30 - Civilization III
2002 07/14 - Freeciv 1.13.0
2002 09/22 - Civilization: The Board Game
2002 10/?? - Civilization III Play the World
2003 01/20 - Freeciv 1.14.0
2003 04/09 - Galactic Civilizations for MS Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
2003 12/12 - Freeciv 1.14.1
2004 09/10 - Freeciv 1.14.2
2005 04/16 - Freeciv 2.0.0
2005 10/24 - Civilization IV
2005 10/05 - Freeciv 2.0.7
2006 02/21 Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords released
2006 03/06 - Freeciv 2.0.8
2007 02/17 - Freeciv 2.0.9
2007 10/27 - Freeciv 2.1.0
2008 06/13 - Civilization revolution(PS3 and Xbox)
[edit] The quest for the Freeciv source
Freeciv is a successful example of open source development, so it is interesting to see how its code base developed over time. However, most of the Freeciv code before it was put into CVS seems to have vanished - we have dug up source for versions 1.0 and 1i, but nothing else.
If you can find source code for other early versions of Freeciv (1.5.2 or before), please let us know so we can add it to the list at
Thank you!
