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Yes Win 98 sux, I am a Win 2000 man my self but running Win XP at the moment. That sucks some times because I have a lott of older games that run only on 95/98.

Outside of SPwaw I enjoy playing "Silent Hunter" by SSI" I'd get the North Atlantic version, but they require more than win95b so l guess its all she wrote.

NOW HEAR THIS:


HPS's "The Proud and The Few"

Games that look promising but haven't tried:

HPS's "Eagle Strike"
Matrix's "Uncommon Valor" & "War in the Pacific"

I'm thinking about asking Santa for Uncommon Valor...

THAT IS ALL:

Cheeks

Uncommon Valor

War In The Pacific when it comes out!

Originally posted by Cheeks
HPS's "Eagle Strike

I've got that one. Good game. I don't have the Proud and the Few, but I'm going to get it soon.

Originally posted by Les the Sarge 9-1
Well I guess if it is 98 dependent, then I might as well just not bother worrying.

I have no intention of getting ANY game that forces me to even consider 98, that's for sure.

98 Sucks

I don't understand why you guys don't like Win 98 SE. I've kept it on my machine because it's very stable and runs all my games, even the one's I've heard other people have trouble running. I don't think it's necessarily the OS you use but how you have your computer configured. It certainly works well for me and very rarely crashes or locks up.

Dave I had 98, I had it on a pablum machine ie on board sound and video absolutely nothing exotic at all.

Yes it ran older games, yes it ran them adequately. Yes I will those games.

But Win 98 itself sucks, not that it won't run the games it did. The games were certainly not the weak link 98 was. It sucks.

Oh did I mention 98 sucks.

It blue screened when it wanted to. It sure didn't set up any software or hardware on it's own initiative like XP does. It sure wasn't able to get older games to run by being inovative like XP does.
So what XP won't run some games that are more than 5 years old. Most of those games are so old they have lost their shine and have been effectively usurped by the game that is essentially the same setting but better looking.

Man if Battlefield plays as well or as close to Operational Art of War as I need, I might even go around and break a few 98 OS discks I have, just to feel good.

If my power gamer buddy turfed what he said was a good gamer OS (98) for XP that is all I need to know. If he says it sucks then it really sucks.

Originally posted by Cheeks
NOW HEAR THIS:


HPS's "The Proud and The Few"

Games that look promising but haven't tried:

HPS's "Eagle Strike"
Matrix's "Uncommon Valor" & "War in the Pacific"

I'm thinking about asking Santa for Uncommon Valor...

THAT IS ALL:

Cheeks

Don't ask..Demand. Its a dam fine game! (Uncommon Valor)
And War In The Pacific looks to be better.

Softwares:

My favourite one is SPWAW (playing H2H, PBEM, solo with the magacampaigns)

Non computer boardgames:

Canvas Falcons. Definitively.

Impossible for me to choose a "best of -all categories" between those two games...

I wish there was a way that Soldiers at war would play on XP.

The Steel Panthers' series.

No question about it.

PAC war.
1. because i had such a computer it was the only game that i coul play for o long a time without etting borde.
2. because when i eventually got bored i bought a new computer and discovered you could play against HUMANS !

and this, even if there are some blokes on this forum is incredible added value to any game.

So PAC will remain my best for a long time. 'cos i like the game and i like the comments a get with each pbem.

best regards.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by slickric
Don't laugh but Soldiers At War.... turn based squad level combat!

I loved this game which only runs on Win 98 here are a few pictures.


Hi


I'm not laughing....I really liked that game too:)

Uncommon Valor is my favourite for sure to be replaced by WITP.

Dan

V4 victory series,

TAO2 and UV so far.............Korsun Pocket and WITP I imagine will also be there too.