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Version differences

What changed between the DOS, Windows and Macintosh releases of Colonization, and what stayed the same.

Sid Meier's Colonization shipped for DOS in 1994 and was then ported to Windows 3.1 (1995) and the Macintosh. The rules carried over largely intact; the presentation was rebuilt for each platform.

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Asset formats, DOS and Windows which files carry the same data in both releases, and how each one stores the art, colours and text

More comparisons — rules, interface, the Macintosh release — are in preparation.

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Figures come from the reconstructed code of the 1995 Windows release · styled with web-ui v1.2.0 · source on GitHub · 2026