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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.

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.

1980 ??/?? – Civilization, a board game designed by Francis Tresham

1981 ??/?? – Utopia Intellevision

1982 ??/?? – Utopia Aquarius

1982 ??/?? – Hamurabi HP-75C, 4K and a Basic interpreter

1984 ??/?? – Incunabula DOS

1988 ??/?? – Advanced Civilization – Expansion set to the original board game

1991 08/?? – Sid Meier's Civilization Amiga 500

1991 11/12 – Sid Meier's Civilization DOS

1992 ??/?? – Sid Meier's Civilization Macintosh

1993 ??/?? – Sid Meier's Civilization Amiga 1200

1993 ??/?? – Sid Meier's Civilization Atari ST

1994 10/02 – Sid Meier's Civilization Windows

1994 ??/?? – Sid Meier's Civilization SNES

1994 ??/?? – Sid Meier's Civilization Sega Genesis

1994 ??/?? – Colonization

1995 11/09 – CivNet (Civ I multiplayer remake)

1995 11/14 – Freeciv started.

1996 03/23 – Advanced Civilization – Computer adaption of the 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 – Sid Meier's Civilization II

1996 05/01 – Freeciv 1.0i

1996 04/08 – Freeciv 1.0j

1996 08/10 – Freeciv 1.0k

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

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 04/30 – 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 Sid Meier's Civilization II Multiplayer Gold Edition

1998 08/06 – Freeciv 1.7.0

1998 09/02 – Freeciv 1.7.1

1998 12/23 – Freeciv 1.7.2

1999 02/09 – Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

1999 04/02 – Freeciv 1.8.0

1999 04/05 – Civilization: Call to Power

1999 05/15 – Civilization: Call to Power Linux

1999 05/21 – Sid Meier's Civilization II: Test of Time

1999 07/08 – Freeciv 1.8.1

1999 09/?? – Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire

1999 10/19 – Freeciv 1.9.0

2000 02/21 – Freeciv 1.10.0

2000 04/30 – Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Mac

2000 06/29 – Freeciv 1.11.0

2000 07/20 – Freeciv 1.11.4

2000 11/?? – Call to Power II

2001 ??/?? – Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Linux

2001 08/10 – Freeciv 1.12.0

2001 10/30 – Sid Meier's Civilization III

2002 07/14 – Freeciv 1.13.0

2002 09/22 – Civilization: The Board Game

2002 10/?? – Sid Meier's Civilization III: Play the World

2003 01/20 – Freeciv 1.14.0

2003 12/12 – Freeciv 1.14.1

2004 09/10 – Freeciv 1.14.2

2005 04/16 – Freeciv 2.0.0

2005 10/24 – Sid Meier's Civilization IV

2005 10/05 – Freeciv 2.0.7

2006 03/06 – Freeciv 2.0.8

2007 02/17 – Freeciv 2.0.9

2007 10/27 – Freeciv 2.1.0

2008 06/13 – Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution PS3/Xbox 360/Nintendo DS/iOS

2008 07/07 – Freeciv 2.0.10

2009 04/05 – Freeciv 2.1.9

2009 11/26 – Freeciv 2.1.10

2010 02/02 – Freeciv 2.2.0

2010 11/23 – Sid Meier's Civilization V

2011 07/06 – CivWorld

2011 08/08 – Freeciv 2.3.0

2013 09/14 – Freeciv 2.4.0

2015 08/15 – Freeciv 2.5.1

2016 10/21 – Sid Meier's Civilization VI

2018 07/22 – Freeciv 2.6.0

The quest for the Freeciv source[]

Freeciv logo 2001

Historic logo (2001–2007)

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

http://files.freeciv.org/stable/OLD/

Thank you!

See also[]

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