Alpha Centauri

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  1. scient-unofficial-smacx-patch

    Scient's Unofficial Patch for Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire

    There's a number of active communities about still playing the game, including /r/alphacentauri on reddit, a discord server at https://discord.gg/7BkcvXUX , and https://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=community

    I know the last time I picked it up, there were a well respected set of patches from scient (a quick google pointed me to https://github.com/DrazharLn/scient-unofficial-smacx-patch ). Somewhere in here is a pre-done distribution you can just click and run with for modern windows.

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  3. glsmac

    Unofficial open-source OpenGL/SDL2 reimplementation of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ( + Alien Crossfire )

  4. fcw.org-server

    The current state of the https://www.freecivweb.com server is the last commit in the /dev branch which pre-dates the timestamp of the latest rebuild announcement publicised in the FCW Discord announcements channel.

  5. thinker

    Improved game engine features for SMACX.

    This project improves the AI, but might not be quite what you want?

    https://github.com/induktio/thinker

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