• Standard emacs keybindings including ^Z to minimize the window, ^A and ^E for beginning/end of line, etc.

• Full 3-button mouse support -- the left and right mouse buttons are used to select/deselect units. The middle mouse button will let you scroll around the minimap.

• The game has commandline parameters! "--version" is the most interesting (IMHO):

  CivCTP Linux 1.1 Thu Jun 10 19:51:54 PDT 1999
  Built with flags: 
  -O2 -funroll-loops -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -g -D_REENTRANT -DPACK=__attribute__ ((packed)) -DCIV3_SPECIES=75 -D_BFR_ -malign-double -D_SDL_STATIC_LIB -DSTATICALLY_LINKED 
  Built with glibc-2.1
  

  I haven't figured out why the game seems to be threaded (-D_REENTRANT), but the documentation says that the Auto-Save feature uses a background fork()'ed process ...

• Personal preferences are kept in the user's home directory (~/.civctp/) so a single installation can be used for multiple players. (A sample userprofile.txt file).

• If the movies aren't installed on the hard drive, the game will grep /etc/fstab for any entries specifying the ISO9660 filesystem. The game will then check those filesystems (if mounted) for the movies.

• The Windows version requires the CD-ROM to be available for copy protection purposes. The Linux version has no such requirement. (In fact, there's a "-nocdrom" parameter available.)

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