Catfish's Cave - Resources For Civilization 2: Test of Time
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Links

Civilization 2 Design

  • The Scenario League and its forum. This is probably the best place on the Internet for information relating to Civilization 2 scenario design. The main site hosts loads of excellent guides and its forum is visited by many veteran designers.

  • The Cradle of Civilization William Keenan's scenario design site, dedicated to the Test of Time version of the game. It hosts a number of ToT scenarios as well.

  • Mercator's Civilization 2 Site Loads of utilities (by Mercator and others), maps and technical guides for Civ2 designers.

  • Civilization Fanatics' Center Largest Civilization fan site on the Internet. Caters for all versions of Civilization, but these days the focus is on Civilization 4.

  • Carl's Scenarios for Civilization II Carl Fritz's excellent scenarios and utilities.

  • Eyn's World The site's in French. It hosts Test of Time scenarios, graphics, utilities and guides (in French, of course).

Scenarios

  • Scenario League's Civ2 ToT scenario page Hosts a dozen or so ToT scenarios by various designers.

  • Tecumseh's Village Techumseh's scenarios, notably Red October, Operation Market-Garden, Warlords of China, Frederick the Great and Roman Civil War.

  • Kestrel's Civilization II Test of Time Page Home to Kestrel's many modpacks and scenarios for Test of Time. Unfortunately many of the site's download links have been down for a few years now. Some of his mods and scenarios can still be found in The Cradle of Civilization's scenario collection.

  • Dalek Tyranny A science fiction scenario by Curt Sibling, set in the universe of Doctor Who, from the BBC television series of the same name. It begins with the 1963 Dalek invasion of Earth. Play as one of two Dalek factions, UNIT, the Earth resistance, the Thals, or The Doctor and his companions. Also meddling in the affairs of planet Earth is the Doctor's arch-enemy, The Master and his allies, the Cybermen and the Sontarans.

  • Final Days by MagyarCrusader. Eastern Front 1942. Available on CFC's Modern Scenarios download page.

  • I'll toss in a few scenarios converted to ToT using Angelo Scotto's CivConverter. They're hosted at Apolyton; I can't post direct download links (bandwidth stealing is tolerated there - providing it's not from them) so I'll provide links to the relevant threads instead:

2194 Days of War by Captain Nemo and Alex the Magnificent

All Under Heaven v1.14 by Winterfritz

Bonaparte v2 by John Ellis

Casus Belli: Magna Bellum Borealis 1700-1721 by Vegard Bjørketun. Fairline has created a graphics modpack for the ToT version.

Hammer of the North v2.9 by Morten Blaabjerg

Hundred Years War by John Ellis

Imperialism 1870 v3 by Exile

Imperium Romanum v2.2 by Bernd "BeBro" Brosing. Fairline has created a graphics modpack for the ToT version.

Justinian the Great v1.2 by Carl Fritz

Red Front v1.4 by Captain Nemo and Alex the Magnificent. Fairline has created a graphics modpack for the ToT version.

Seize the Crown by John Ellis

Other Resources

  • 7-Zip A free open source archiving program. Can extract the 7Z, RAR and ZIP archives found on this site.

  • Advanced Hex Editor Home of AXE, a powerful hex-editing program. It's shareware, but there's a fully featured trial version available for download.

  • Dusty Reichwein's Home Page Download site for Dusty's excellent MapCopy utility. It now supports scenario files and saved games from Test of Time.

  • Frhed: The Free Hex Editor What it says. An open source project, released under the GNU General Public Licence. More than adequate for hex-editing Civ2 files.

  • Ken Silverman's Utility Page Author of the Build Engine (Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Shadow Warrior, etc). You can find his PNGOut utility here. Use it to compress your PNG files and at the same time eliminate the troublesome gAMA chunk (a value used by some applications to maintain consistent gamma levels and one that's poorly handled by Microsoft's Internet Explorer). It's a good idea to run this utility on your PNG files before posting them on the Internet.

  • PNGGauntlet A nice user-friendly GUI for Ken Silverman's PNGOut utility (see previous).

  • Resource Hacker A utility that allows you to edit 32-bit Windows executables and DLL files. Use this if you want to add custom graphics to Civ2's DLLs (eg, intro.dll, mk.dll, ss.dll and tiles.dll). It's a better option than GIF Xtractor because it doesn't apply the same file size restrictions to your replacement graphics.

  • The GIMP The GNU Image Manipulation Program is a free graphics editor. If you can't afford Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, you can stop moaning about Microsoft Paint. Now there's really no excuse, is there?

  • Tim's Code Archive Here you can find Timbatron's patched game executables for ToT and MGE. They prevent the game from using all of your available CPU resources. In modern computers this can result in fans going haywire as temperatures soar, not to mention the total waste of electricity. You can thank Tim for his efforts (he doesn't even own ToT) by clicking on his ads.