It has full PowerPC support even in it's current release, but you'll need the original game data files to play it. First there's Dune Legacy, an open source rebuild of Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty. I seem to have found a few additional strategy games for this category. From what I understand, only the web browser plug-in was vulnerable, but maybe someone can weigh in with a comment.
I'm not sure about the security implications of that, since Java 1.5 is outdated. In addition to single player, you can also join multiplayer games over the internet. FreeCol somehow escaped my attention, but I tried it out a little bit and it looks great. Will you guide them on the Colonization of a New World?So it's a little like FreeCiv.
You start with only a few colonists defying the stormy seas in their search for new land. The objective of the game is to create an independent nation. He uploaded it to his Dropbox folder ( direct link), and it's only a 30 MB download.įreeCol is a turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization, and similar to Civilization. Thanks to the compiling talents of reader Javier A., we now have a new version of FreeCol that runs on Java 1.5. If any of you were downcast that the strategy game FreeCol required Java 1.6 and wouldn't run on PowerPC Macs, today's your lucky day.