I just learned that Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri with the Alien Crossfire expansion is on sale for $ 2.99 (currently € 2.70) at GOG. This is my favourite Civilization game of all time! I loved that game back in the day! The intro cinematic alone is so amazing at establishing an atmosphere. There really is nothing like this 1990s sci-fi anymore. It was a golden age …

If you have issues with the resolution the game is running in, which seems to be common on Windows 10 and 11, edit the Alpha Centauri.Ini file in the game’s directory to have these two lines to disable the intro movie (with its resolution change) and have the game run in your native desktop resolution:

DirectDraw=0
DisableOpeningMovie=1

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