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I would love to see Task Force 1942 [:D]
I would also like to see a remake of the Great Navel Battles series

would pay GOOD MONEY for another harpoon game

So what is good money to you mean Jjax? Since you have stated in other threads you don't want to pay the going price for WitP. I believe you would not be willing to pay the price asked for Harpoon, either.

A tribute game to GDW would be awesome... perhaps it could code versions of Air Superiority and Air Strike, Assault and Boot and Saddles, and Harpoon or Harpoon II. Avalon Hill and SPI dominated so much in the golden age of wargaming, but GDW's excellent contributions to the industry were very impressive, fun and challenging.

I still have a copy of TF 1942 that I run on a REALLY old PC that I acquired recently. Now I get to play alot of those old games that I used to enjoy so much.

I've made it a point some years back to keep a few old machine and boxes of spare parts.

I've been running a 386/17 and a 486/75 ODP. I still play Task Force 1942, Pacific Airwar 1942 and alot of really moldy oldies, even the original Starflight with an EGA video patch. It's the only way to go these days.

I see reading back through the thread that the consences is a WWII & Cold war surface naval combat sims. A really good subsim, X-com, Age of Rifles and a WWI flight sim. The good old standards.

Rick White

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A tribute game to GDW would be awesome... perhaps it could code versions of Air Superiority and Air Strike, Assault and Boot and Saddles, and Harpoon or Harpoon II. Avalon Hill and SPI dominated so much in the golden age of wargaming, but GDW's excellent contributions to the industry were very impressive, fun and challenging.

I agree. Although Flashpoint Germany is pretty much Assault (Series). Given the number of C64 fanatics here, I'm surprised MULE wasn't mentioned. One of the first massive multiplayer games, all 4 of you. Many lost evenings to that game. SSI's Overrun and Panzer Strike. So many great titles back then when wargames outnumbers RTS and Shooters.

S!

Cap'n D

ORIGINAL: Capn Darwin

ORIGINAL: coregames

A tribute game to GDW would be awesome... perhaps it could code versions of Air Superiority and Air Strike, Assault and Boot and Saddles, and Harpoon or Harpoon II. Avalon Hill and SPI dominated so much in the golden age of wargaming, but GDW's excellent contributions to the industry were very impressive, fun and challenging.

I agree. Although Flashpoint Germany is pretty much Assault (Series). Given the number of C64 fanatics here, I'm surprised MULE wasn't mentioned. One of the first massive multiplayer games, all 4 of you. Many lost evenings to that game. SSI's Overrun and Panzer Strike. So many great titles back then when wargames outnumbers RTS and Shooters.

S!

Cap'n D

Harpoon II??? Uuuughhhhh

That was a crap game, not as good as Harpoon (original) or Harpoon (alliance)

actually all I have is Harpoon, I just assumed Harpoon II would be an improvement (guess I have the only version I need).

Yep a harpoon 2 vers that really worked would be nice.Pity about the original it was way ahead of it's time.Steel panthers 2 was nice.Peoples General,almost runs [:@]

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actually all I have is Harpoon, I just assumed Harpoon II would be an improvement (guess I have the only version I need).

Harpoon II had whole new graphics, more a spherical type, it looked nice but it never ran right, it wasn't put out by The same ones that did the original Harpoon.

On the Original...

Theres the Original (DOS)

Then theres both Alliances spiffed up versions of Original, Alliance spiffed up graphics, fixed some bugs and it basically
was Original Harpoon with a Facelift, issued in a DOS and also A windows version (win 3.1)

I have Original and both alliances DOS and Windows versions.

Still play the windows version on my XP home.

I too kept my old Win3.1/MS-DOS 6.2.2 machine for the old games. I had a Packhard Bell 66MHz machine that I had ported into a 233MHz machine several years ago. It works just fine and I enjoy firing up old games such as TF 1942, Aces of the Pacific, GNB (bought the complete set in one package), and even A-Train. Lots of fun.

RayM

Woah A-Train, another favorite that I spent many hours, days and months playing.

Board games which I would love on PC:

Bismarck
Jutland
Squad Leader

Welcome to the boards sonofdavros and yes, we'd all like to see many board wargames converted to the PC, but, it doesn't seem we can convince any developers of that. I'm a big fan of Squad Leader also. As many people that praise and still to this day play Squad Leader, you'd think someone by now would have picked up the torch and converted it to the PC instead of creating these wanna be clones that come close, but, still are not the same. I want my lil card-board counters and "Les the Sarge" unit. hehe Unfortunately Paradox has bought the rights to "Squad Leader" by AH and heh, they are going to ruin it yet again like I think it was microprose the first time that ruined it, was NOTHING like the board game, was pretty awful in fact.

Hi, Ravinhood, and thanks for the welcome. [:)]

The thing is, these sort of games are ripe for computerisation - people like us are not intersted in super-3D graphics etc; we just want a computer to do all the number-crunching for us. Like how many hexes can my squad go. Over marshland. Carrying an MMG. When fatigued. And under a foreign NCO..... [:D] etc. etc.

Bismarck, too, would be ideal for PC. Then you could play solo, searching the north Atlantic for it (or being searched for!). And as for those battle calculations...! Which way is the target going? Which way are you going? Are you being fired upon? etc etc!

check out Harpoon 3. They are about to add mulitplayer support to it. Its available as a download and cdrom.

yep, Harpoon III is great and Harpoon I ( classic is nice too )


both games doesnt need a refit from matrix , the work is already done

http://www.advancedgaming.biz/index.php

STEEL PANTHERS 2 STEEL PANTHERS 2 STEEL PANTHERS 2 STELL PANTHERS 2

Never made into a computer game (only a terrible version of Star Fleet battles) but Task Force Games's "Federation and Empire"

As for computer games, Red Lightning would be nice.

Add "Wooden Ships and Iron Men" to the list.

ORIGINAL: RayM

I too kept my old Win3.1/MS-DOS 6.2.2 machine for the old games. I had a Packhard Bell 66MHz machine that I had ported into a 233MHz machine several years ago. It works just fine and I enjoy firing up old games such as TF 1942, Aces of the Pacific, GNB (bought the complete set in one package), and even A-Train. Lots of fun.

RayM

Many old DOS/win 3.1 games can run under XP.

Harpoon (alliance,win) runs fine, Colonization runs fine, Civ I, Civ II run fine, starflight 2 runs, and others.

Sometimes may need tinker with properties
for example for one game I setup a 2MB XMS since game needed xms memory