Panda , Aug 19, Joined: May 23, Messages: I can't get Alpha Centauri to work on Vista RC1 with any currently available patches or the compatability application. I hope they make a patch soon. I worked on it since about when I last posted and now it works!
Not easy though You have to use the XP patch as before, do all the previously posted things with alphacentauri.
Biggest annoyance is that vista doesn't let me save from notepad into the SMAC directory I don't think I'll risk installing alien crossfire yet Joined: Aug 6, Messages: Location: I'd enjoy being in my comp corner. I love those who do not know how to live, for they are those who cross over.
Select your theme. SMF 2. Logged Good artists copy, great artists steal. User Welcome, Guest. XP Compatibility patch. Gog version for Windows. Scient unofficial patch. Kyrub's latest patch. Yitzi's latest patch. There is also a large foldout poster of the technology tree that is way too large for your desktop. A smaller 6"x15" foldout card would have been better. Make no mistake about it, this is the game most Civilization lovers have been longing for. If you enjoyed Civilization I or II and are ready for a sequel, this is it.
If you are one of the very few who found Civilization a little on the slow, boring, "I want my Quake back" side, Alpha Centauri is not for you. Browse games Game Portals. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. Install Game. Click the "Install Game" button to initiate the file download and get compact download launcher.
Locate the executable file in your local folder and begin the launcher to install your desired game. Game review Downloads Screenshots What we thought "For Civ fans, Alpha Centauri offers more of the same tenific gameplay, but this time there are so many bells, whistles and new ways of thinking that you'll wonder what hit you. I've become hopelessly addicted to the wonder that is Alpha Centauri. I'll admit that most strategy games engage me for a little while, but this one blows everything else out of the water.
The depth, variety and pureplayability make this an all-round brilliant piece of software. Like most sci-fi strategy games I found myself becoming bored by the repetitive and pointless nature of the gameplay.
Sid Meier knows how to make one kind of game only, and the sooner he stops inflicting these egotistical piles of regurgitated tedium on us the better. Download Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. Overall rating: 7. The discovery of Proxima Centauri c was confirmed in The planet has a mass of about 7 Earth masses and orbits Proxima from a distance of about 1.
It takes 1, days 5. The planet may have a large ring system around it, detected in June In addition to the planets orbiting Proxima , two planets have been reported around Toliman , Alpha Centauri B.
In , another candidate exoplanet was detected around Alpha Centauri B. A possible transit event was observed that may correspond to a planet with a radius of about 0. If it exists, Alpha Centauri Bc is too close to its host star to harbour life.
There may be additional planets orbiting Rigil Kentaurus and Toliman , either the individual stars or the Alpha Centauri AB binary, but none have been confirmed yet. Even though the system is a frequent target for observations and planet hunting, none of the studies have found evidence for the existence of gas giants or brown dwarfs in the system.
However, binarity itself is not an obstacle to planet formation. In , a theoretical study simulated the formation of planetary systems around Toliman and all simulations led to the formation of multiple planets, with at least one with a mass of Earth masses orbiting at a distance of 0.
The study suggested that a planet with 1. This may indicate the presence of thin circumstellar discs or dense interplanetary dust. Debris discs orbiting main sequence stars can indicate the presence of larger bodies. In fact, any planets orbiting Alpha Centauri A would have better prospects of life than the planets orbiting the Sun. Those prospects would be slightly worse around Alpha Centauri B than around the Sun, but not bad enough to pose a threat to life on any planets orbiting the star.
The Chandra observations have captured the X-ray activity in the system over more than a decade, including the period during the closest approach. Rigil Kentaurus , Alpha Centauri A, is one of the 58 bright stars selected for use in navigation. Due to their location in the far southern sky, most of these stars are invisible to observers in mid-northern latitudes.
The southern luminaries Alpha Centauri, Canopus and Achernar were largely unknown to European observers until the English geographer, mathematician and explorer Robert Hues published his work Tractatus de globis et eorum usu Treatise on Globes and Their Use in Hues made observations of the Southern Cross and other bright southern stars from the South Atlantic, during a voyage with the English explorer Thomas Cavendish, and published his discoveries in Tractatus de globis.
Alpha Centauri was one of the first binary star systems to be discovered. Father Jean Richaud, a Jesuit priest, resolved the two components from Pondicherry, India, in December while observing a comet. The high proper motion of the main pair was first reported by the British astronomer Manuel John Johnson, who observed the system from the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Even though the difference was considerable, Henderson withheld the results of his observations thinking that the values were too high to be accurate. He did not publish his findings until , after the German astronomer and physicist Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel announced a parallax of 0.
Even though Henderson measured the parallax of Alpha Centauri AB before Bessel, his work was not widely known at the time and it is 61 Cygni that is usually cited as the first star to have its parallax measured, as well as the first star to have its distance estimated. Due to their proximity, the three stars in the Alpha Centauri system have a high proper motion apparent motion across the background sky. The centre of mass of Alpha Centauri AB moves about milliarcseconds per year towards the west and milliarcseconds per year towards the north.
It moves about 6. The system has a mean radial velocity of about Even though it is the nearest star system to the Sun, Alpha Centauri does not have the highest proper motion measured of any star. This diagram illustrates the locations of the star systems closest to the sun. Even though it lies at a much greater distance light years , Hadar Beta Centauri is a first-magnitude star, the 11th brightest star in the sky, and the conjunction of the two exceptionally bright stars will be a very rare event.
Alpha Centauri will then move north of the Southern Cross and the constellation Vela toward the celestial equator and across Hydra , where it will be found around the year 26, CE.
In the year 27, CE, the star will make its closest approach to the Sun, coming within 2. At perihelion, it will shine at magnitude Proxima Centauri was discovered in by the Scottish astronomer Robert T.
Innes from the Union Observatory in South Africa. Innes used a 9-inch refractor and a inch astrographic camera and found a star that had the same high proper motion as Alpha Centauri AB. He believed that the star was closer to the Sun than Alpha Centauri, which was already considered the nearest star system, and gave it the name Proxima. The distance of Proxima was definitively measured by the American astronomer Harold Lee Alden from the Yale observatory station in Johannesburg.
Finsen gave an orbital period of The currently accepted orbital period of The Sun is believed to be either in the Local Interstellar Cloud or in the area between the two clouds, but it is moving towards the G-Cloud. The G-Cloud also contains Altair , the brightest star in the constellation Aquila and the 12th brightest star in the sky, located at a distance of
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