(Msg. 16) Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 3:25 pm
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"Vincenzo Beretta" wrote in message
> The idea for this post comes from both a recourring thread on
> comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action ("What have you been playing in... (month)
> (year)") and a recent post by Giftzy about the games he currently has on
> his HD. Since the former evolved into a good monthly picture of the "State
> of Play" (*) - with insights, commentaries, reviews etc. - but it often
> lacks a "war-historical" component, I thought about doing a CSIPGW-H
> edition.
>
> These are the games I currently keep on my HD, either because I'm playing
> them or because they are of the "let's keep it because I could wish to
> fire it up any moment now". With a single exception, I have not included
> the games I have to review.
>
> NOW PLAYING
>
> War in the Pacific: AE (this is the exception - but the review is down the
> road for obvious reasons :^D)
> John Tiller's Campaign Series (I started playing the German-Polish war
> scenarios on September, 1st, - third party included - and I'm finishing
> them now)
> Panzer General (yup, just re-installed it)
> Supreme Ruler 2020 + Global Crisis
>
> KEEPERS
>
> Supremacy at Sea (on hold waiting for the 1.1 patch)
> Warship Combat: Dreadnoughts and Battleships
> The Complete Carriers at War
> Dominions 3
> AATF installed over ATF and TSaTC
> Hearts of Iron 2 Doomsday + Armageddon + "World in Flames" Mod
> TOAW III
> Harpoon Classic: Commander Edition
> The three original Combat Mission
> Medieval II: Total War + Kingdoms + "Deus lo Vult" Mod
> Galactic Civilizations II + expansions
> Silent Hunter III + GWX 3.0 Mod
>
> (*) The original BBC miniseries, not the American remake.
>
>
>
On my drive is:
CM Shock Force - When it doesn't crash -> ATI really need to sort out their
drivers....
CM 2
Tin Soldiers Alexander
Tin Soldiers Ceaser
War in the Pacific (orig version)
PC Winterstorm
PC Kharkov
BOA 1
Harpoon 3 ANW
iMagic Great Battles of Alexander
iMagic Great Battles of Hannibal
iMagic Great Battles of Ceaser
HTTR
HPS POA2
HPS PzC Normandy '44
HPS PzC France 40
Tacops
VAASL - Both on Windows and OSX
Also playing
DCS Black shark
Falcon 4 AF
FSX
X-Plane
UFO ET
Removed with prejudice:
HPS Punic Wars - Way to cock a game up. So much wasted potential
(Msg. 17) Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 4:03 pm
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RobP wrote:
> iMagic Great Battles of Alexander
> iMagic Great Battles of Hannibal
> iMagic Great Battles of Ceaser
On what OS are you running the above games? I just installed them to XP
last night and I can get Hannibal and Caesar to install but Alexander
won't install because it complains that I am not running Win95. WTF
idiot puts in a hook in the installer demanding the user has Win95?
(Msg. 18) Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:38 am
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On 13 sep, 12:32, "Vincenzo Beretta" wrote:
> NOW PLAYING
Pong
> KEEPERS
Well, while most games once installed remain on the HD because I don't
see the point in de-installing them the list of games which get
installed by default from one pc to the next is pretty short :
- everything by Panther Games
- TOAW III - my vote for wargame of the decade
- Commander : Europe at War
(Msg. 19) Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:57 pm
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On Sep 15, 8:44 pm, "Vincenzo Beretta" wrote:
> ha scritto nel messaggionews:9af6240b-806f-486c-b2c5-6c36d5e09c87@z34g2000vbl.googlegroups.com...
>
> > On 13 sep, 12:32, "Vincenzo Beretta" wrote:
>
> >> NOW PLAYING
>
> > Pong
>
> Why so serious? O__o
You surprised me with a direct question
At the time I typed it I *was* playing pong - email pong - it's a game
where you bounce emails back to its source until the other player
realizes he's not going to get you to do his work and quits bothering
you. At that point you score. I play it a lot at work
> > - everything by Panther Games
>
> I'm reading a book with dozens of interviews with Italian soldiers who
> fought in North Africa. It put me in the mood for reinstalling CotA and
> checking the new NA scenarios. "Panther Games' Afrika Korps" will never be
> here fast enough. If there is a system born to recreate the mechanized
> warfare in the desert it is CotA's.
Well, the main problem is minefields and vehicle breakdown/recovery,
both of which played a major part and cannot really be recreated in
the CotA engine.
That, and the additional water requirements of Italian units of
course
(Msg. 20) Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 3:25 pm
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ha scritto nel messaggio
> On 13 sep, 12:32, "Vincenzo Beretta" wrote:
>
>> NOW PLAYING
>
> Pong
Why so serious? O__o
> - everything by Panther Games
I'm reading a book with dozens of interviews with Italian soldiers who
fought in North Africa. It put me in the mood for reinstalling CotA and
checking the new NA scenarios. "Panther Games' Afrika Korps" will never be
here fast enough. If there is a system born to recreate the mechanized
warfare in the desert it is CotA's.
(Msg. 21) Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 3:25 pm
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"The Reject" wrote in message
> RobP wrote:
>
>> iMagic Great Battles of Alexander
>> iMagic Great Battles of Hannibal
>> iMagic Great Battles of Ceaser
>
> On what OS are you running the above games? I just installed them to XP
> last night and I can get Hannibal and Caesar to install but Alexander
> won't install because it complains that I am not running Win95. WTF idiot
> puts in a hook in the installer demanding the user has Win95?
>
Playing these under Windows XP. Installed using win95 compatibility mode.
Installed the latest official patches and
replaced the exes with the ones found on this site:
http://www.ianm1.plus.com/index.html
The above site is a very good resource for these games.
For my setup I also had to disable the 'Finish Leader Dialog' and the
'Confirm Group Command Dialog' under the preferences menu to prevent random
crashes. But once done these games work a treat!
(Msg. 22) Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:25 pm
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Vincenzo Beretta wrote:
> The idea for this post comes from both a recourring thread on
> comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action ("What have you been playing in... (month)
> (year)") and a recent post by Giftzy about the games he currently has on his
> HD. Since the former evolved into a good monthly picture of the "State of
> Play" (*) - with insights, commentaries, reviews etc. - but it often lacks a
> "war-historical" component, I thought about doing a CSIPGW-H edition.
>
> These are the games I currently keep on my HD, either because I'm playing
> them or because they are of the "let's keep it because I could wish to fire
> it up any moment now". With a single exception, I have not included the
> games I have to review.
What I'm mostly playing right now is Advanced Squad Leader. Not a computer
game, although I'm playing it online (on VASL), so maybe that still counts?
Occasionally I play some MTW2. I also have Battle for Wesnoth and
Drakensang on my HD, but that's about it.
mcv.
--
Science is not the be-all and end-all of human existence. It's a tool.
A very powerful tool, but not the only tool. And if only that which
could be verified scientifically was considered real, then nearly all
of human experience would be not-real. -- Zachriel
(Msg. 23) Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:25 pm
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On Sep 15, 11:03 pm, mcv wrote:
> Drakensang
Those guys had a great big setup at Spiel in Essen, looked great, but
I had the impression most players spend most of their time looking at
stat screens. Wrong impression or not ?
(Msg. 24) Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:25 pm
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Played and/or tested in the last couple of weeks for at least 5
minutes:
Operation Barbarossa
War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition
Field of Glory Beta
Sword of the Stars
War Between the States
CC: The Longest Day
Sins of a Solar Empire
Tropico 3 Demo
WW2 Time of Wrath
Panzer Command: Kharkov
TOAW III
Plus of course Future Matrix Alpha/Beta Games and Beta Updates 1 - XX
(Msg. 25) Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:25 pm
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On Sep 15, 11:26 pm, Erik wrote:
>
> Plus of course Future Matrix Alpha/Beta Games and Beta Updates 1 - XX
Your post was suddenly interupted just at the point where you were
going to tell us what those future games are
(Msg. 26) Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:25 pm
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wrote in message
> On Sep 15, 11:03 pm, mcv wrote:
>
>> Drakensang
>
> Those guys had a great big setup at Spiel in Essen, looked great, but
> I had the impression most players spend most of their time looking at
> stat screens. Wrong impression or not ?
>
> Greetz,
>
> Eddy Sterckx
>
>
(Msg. 27) Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:56 am
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On 15 sep, 23:56, "Mike Kreuzer" wrote:
>
> You say that like it's a bad thing.
don't you start ...
> Gnome: check.
> Elf: check.
> Paladin: check.
> Dragon: check.
> What else do we need on the cover ... a woman with enormous breasts: check.
>
> Looks like this game has all the RPG bases covered.
When you see it all - and I don't mean just those breasts - on what
must have been a 30 inch monitor - georgeous stuff - you just wonder
why a gamer would want to spend the majority of his time looking at
stats.
(Msg. 28) Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:25 am
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wrote:
> On 15 sep, 23:56, "Mike Kreuzer" wrote:
>>
>> Gnome: check.
>> Elf: check.
>> Paladin: check.
>> Dragon: check.
>> What else do we need on the cover ... a woman with enormous breasts: check.
>>
>> Looks like this game has all the RPG bases covered.
>
> When you see it all - and I don't mean just those breasts - on what
> must have been a 30 inch monitor - georgeous stuff - you just wonder
> why a gamer would want to spend the majority of his time looking at
> stats.
I do spend a lot of time wandering around and looking at pretty
pictures. It isn't quite as enchanting as the first time I played EVE
Online or Morrowind, but it looks pretty good, although I also have the
feeling there's something off, but I can't put my finger on it. Maybe
it's that Uncanny Valley thing.
mcv.
--
Science is not the be-all and end-all of human existence. It's a tool.
A very powerful tool, but not the only tool. And if only that which
could be verified scientifically was considered real, then nearly all
of human experience would be not-real. -- Zachriel
(Msg. 29) Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:05 pm
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