** Impressions so far **

Harpoon Ultimate Edition is the best and most comprehensive compilation of computer Harpoon games ever assembled! The two flagship products in the Harpoon line up, Advanced Naval Warfare and Commanders Edition come highly expanded and improved from their previous versions. More than twenty classic versions of Harpoon are also included! Harpoon - Ultimate Edition is the most powerful and complete modern naval warfare simulation on the market and a must have for any Harpoon fan!
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** Impressions so far **

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Been out of the loop for a while, seen this and bought immediately.
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WoW! All these old harpoon classic games are a treat! I own a good bit of them but have never been able to even open them. Whoever came up with the DosBox addition deserves a kudos! That is really neat! I wonder if H2AE would work in this manner? I doubt I would play it as H3ANW is MUCH better, but still. I actually think this addition was brilliant. I can even get in the DB descriptions etc.
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I am glad I made this purchase, now I can use the Harpoon Battlebook again.

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This is a rather strange question, but I have forgot how exactly to play ANW with a laptop. I know that was addressed but I can not seem to find it....Any ideas? No Numpad on laptop per se.


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One small issue, the install does not let me choose what drive to install to. This might be an issue that I can fix as I want it on a data drive etc. I will move after installation and see what happens.

Likes so far, the manual updates. :) Nice Job


Edit: Well I take that back Harpoon Classic did allow me to choose the install folder.....
Edit2: OK, now it IS letting me install 3.10 on another drive....I guess it was the old items that defaulted to C:
Edit3: Ok I was FOS. It just installed the install files and then deleted when done. My bad, my C drive is safe :)
Installation went smooth, just had me confused for a little bit.

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Well another update, I had a 'Windows restore' Event and had to reinstall things (not Harpoon related!). I had thought I caught it and told H3 3.63 to install on F: drive but it installed on C: instead. No biggie except for a couple of things.

1st - That file is SO huge, it takes a very long time to extract and then install. I had started at 11pm and got up a couple of times through the night and checked it. So 3.63 installed to C:, this could very well be me that hosed it.

2nd - Now the good part. After many years of Harpoon.ini file adjustments etc, I actually knew how to 'move' the program. Worked like a top! The newer versions are so much more user friendly etc. Kudos to that. Well off to DL the DB2000 and the battlesets.


Cheers - Verdict? Even if you already own HCE and H3ANW, this is a great buy, the old Harpoon Classic files did it for me, that was a TREAT!

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