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From: (Ian Russell Ollmann) iano@scripps.edu
Subject: CivHackPowerMac 1.0
CivHackPowerMac-1.0 is "CivHackPCI" renamed to more accurately describe
its function now that System 7.5.3 has been found to contain the same
incompatability which prevented Microprose Civilization from running on
macintoshes running System 7.5.2. All Power Macintoshes have been
experiencing trouble running Civilization under the latest OS release.
Specifically, CivHackPowerMac is a tiny system extension which prevents
Microprose's Macintosh Civilization game from crashing with a type 11
error at the opening menu on PowerPC macintoshes running System 7.5.2 or
7.5.3. This extension has been in use by the general public since 2/96 and
no one has reported any System conflicts to my knowledge. The extension
itself patches an incompatability between Civilization and Quickdraw in
Systems 7.5.2 and 7.5.3 that resulted in this crash. This file does not
seem to be required for 68k (non-PowerPC) macintoshes to run Civilization.
This file is a binhexed stuffit archive containing a System extension
which may be installed by dragging it onto your System Folder and
restarting your machine. There is also a short README file.
This extension was written by Gavriel State,
asked to post it by the author.
Ian Ollmann