30-08-2004 18:42									#31
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quote: Originally posted by General Ludd I will second, third, fifth, or whatever, X-Com and the Master of Orion games. You can even PM me if you need help finding them.

MoO2 is out in a "classic" (ie shovelware, ie discount jewelbox) edition, that i saw at a local EB. Others are available at Ebay, Amazon, I suppose.

	30-08-2004 18:43									#32
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[QUOTE] Originally posted by Arnelos
I do have to agree that the original Master of Orion is a hell of a lot better of a game than Master of Orion II.

MoO deserves its place as one of the best games ever made. MoO2 at least gets into the stadium, but certainly doesn't quite win any prizes.

Problem these days is getting the original MoO to run on a Windows XP system. [/QUOTE

Current system is win98, and when we get the XP system will keep the old Win98 system.

	30-08-2004 18:45									#33
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quote: Originally posted by CapTVK You''re missing out on a lot of hex based strategy games. I would say go straight for the Panzer General series. The PG original still is the best. Otherwise you could go for Battle for Wesnoth (fantasy/RPG-tactics) or Advanced Strategic Command (Modern/SF- tactics/strategy) http://www.wesnoth.org/ http://www.asc-hq.org/

I have Panzer General 2. If i get another wargame it will be in the more "realistic" direction, rather than another 5 star game. Also thinking an operational or strat level game, rather than another tactical game (PG 2 is more explicitly tactical level than PG1, IIUC)

	30-08-2004 21:02									#34
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quote: Originally posted by lord of the mark [QUOTE] Originally posted by Arnelos Problem these days is getting the original MoO to run on a Windows XP system. [/QUOTE Current system is win98, and when we get the XP system will keep the old Win98 system.

I have no problems with Moo on any of the three XP PRO systems I have had, but I do keep a Win98SE, just in case.

	31-08-2004 00:16									#35
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I also have an old box with Win98 installed. It's a bit flaky, but it still comes in handy at times.

	31-08-2004 00:49									#36
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There's only one game that I haven't been able to get working with WinXP or DOSbox; X-COM Apocalypse.

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I'm pretty sure I've been able to.

	31-08-2004 14:35									#38
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No, there's one game that is impossible to run in Windows XP:

Wing Commander: Privateer

	31-08-2004 14:37									#39
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As for MoO in XP, the problem is remembering how to set all of those blasted Extended and Enhanced memory settings and fumbling around with config.sys and autoexec.bat just to get the stupid thing to work.

I haven't bothered to go to the trouble since last formatting my XP machine... anyone have a quicker fix? I'd love to get it running in a window if that's even possible...