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Article #105549Re: help identify an old (~15 yrs) space sim game
From: John Noory
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 11:24
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 11:24
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I've now been able to get Armada 2525 Deluxe running on my computer in two ways: through DOSBox and by running the executable file in Windows 95 mode. It is a spruced up version of the original release with more options. John Noory magnate wrote: > John Noory wrote: > >> It was a terrific little game. It is available on the underdogs website >> for download. There was, apparently, a Deluxe version but I couldn't >> get that to run on my computer. Regular Armada 2525 was fine though. >> > > After reading this thread I went to HotU and downloaded it, fired it up > in DosBox and came to one very strong conclusion: > > Steve Barcia *must* have played this game before he wrote the original > MoO. It has so many similarities it can't just be coincidence. > > A nice little game (it's actually a 4X, not a space sim), but doesn't > have much to offer anyone who has played MoO. > > CC > >
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!peer01.west.cox.net!cox.net!p01!dukeread05.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: John Noory <jnoory@cox.net> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.space-sim Subject: Re: help identify an old (~15 yrs) space sim game References: <1155771915.996223.280380@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <pg9Gg.88517$LF4.73264@dukeread05> <1156378377.905037.123780@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> <pB6Hg.97394$LF4.21105@dukeread05> <1156843664.845847.241290@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1156843664.845847.241290@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> Lines: 28 Message-ID: <sRdKg.128610$LF4.43033@dukeread05> Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 07:24:09 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.227.208.69 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: dukeread05 1157196248 68.227.208.69 (Sat, 02 Sep 2006 07:24:08 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 07:24:08 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit