There might be Colonization players interested to know that a new version of FreeCol was released yesterday. It's the first new release in over a year and a half!

http://www.freecol.org/news/freecol-0.11.0-released.html

For those unfamiliar with it, FreeCol is working towards an open-source recreation of the original Colonization with updated graphics/interface. It's a nice project and quite playable in its current state.

Awesome. You have made my day!!!

I've played FreeCol -- it's an excellent upgrade to the original with a few more options and much better graphics. And, unlike some open-source re-creations, they continuously refine it to eliminate bugs. I agree --it's quite playable in its current form.

There appears to be a "Revenge" mode involving ghost ships but it's not explained anywhere in the documentation (FreeCol appears to use the original Colonization manual). Does anyone know about this?

Overall, highly recommended --and free!