Caesar II Demo
Build a Roman city in Sierra's time-limited Macintosh demonstration.
Impressions Games, 1996
A frontier city
The demonstration opens on an undeveloped Roman province with a river, scattered trees, a geography map, and building controls. Once its introductory messages are dismissed, the calendar advances and the player can inspect the terrain and available construction tools.
This is the original Macintosh playable demo, not the retail game. Sierra's included ReadMe says the demo ends after ten years or when the population reaches 1,000, and saves are disabled. Systemless reaches the live city map from the unchanged 68K-compatible archive. Browser launch remains disabled until a manual check is complete.
License
Licensing information recorded for this game archive. These terms are separate from the Systemless runtime and website licenses.
Game archive
- License
- No license recorded
- Rights holder
- Caesar II rights holders
- Redistribution
- Recorded as permitted
Permission
This is Sierra's unchanged purpose-built playable demonstration, not the retail game. The included ReadMe describes its ten-year or 1,000-person limit, disabled saves, and omitted full-game features. No express redistribution prohibition appears in that ReadMe. This preservation rationale applies only to the original promotional demo archive.
Notes
Original 4,419,345-byte StuffIt archive, SHA-256 fe964cf06291942749ad8f9382075ff671736493df90dc64f8a48468f900fa27. Its ReadMe lists a 68040 as the minimum Mac CPU and PowerPC as a faster option; the archive includes the demo application and its supporting data.
Sources
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