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How Colonization really works

How Sid Meier's Colonization really works, read out of the game's own code: player guides, file formats and the differences between versions.

Game
Sid Meier's Colonization
Build
Windows, 1995
Source
Reconstructed code
Guides
7

Player guides

How the game works, with the exact numbers: terrain, units, Europe, combat, Founding Fathers and difficulty.

Overview

File formats

Save games, maps, graphics and text resources, byte by byte.

In preparation

Version differences

What changed between the DOS, Windows and Macintosh releases.

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