17 Sep
2008
17 Sep
'08
2:18 p.m.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 02:09:18PM -0700, Zane H. Healy wrote:
My favorite two games are still the Macintosh versions of the original
"Master of Orion" and "Warlords II".
Those are both excellent games. I just played a session of MoO I
a few weeks ago, via DOSbox.
The company that made it still exists (Stardock), and
has made newer
verstions "Galactic Civilizations," "Galactic Civilizations: Altarian
Conquest" and "Galactic Civilizations II", but you'll need Windows
2000 or later to run them.
Interesting. I'll have to track them down and see how the game looks
these days. 10 years ago, it was pretty slick for a strategy game. Unlike the PC versions, the Mac
versions aren't limited to 640x480. They'll go up to something like
1024x768 or maybe a bit larger (they won't go up to 1280x1024).
Hmm... never tried them on a Mac (always had the DOS versions at hand).
Being able to exceed VGA resolution would be nice.
Still "Galactic Civilisations" is a close
third.
I do remember drooling over it (the original) when it was new.
-ethan
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