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On the 30 Aug 2009, "Angus Manwaring" 
<angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> On 28-Aug-09 21:10:43, Graham Thurlwell said
>>On the 21 Aug 2009, "Angus Manwaring"
>><angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>><snip>

>>> I'm an Amiga guy, soon to get a pc, but I've played I-War and thought it
>>> was great.

>>BBC from the start, and then Acorn/RISC OS, but I still don't know how
>>I managed to miss out on I-War. As a veteran of the Frontier games and
>>Black Angel it should have been right up my street and yet I never
>>bought it.

> You should put this right, Graham, my old mucker. :)

Yeah, I probably should.

> You still see the budget release of IW2 Edge of Chaos knocking about
> sometimes. From what I played of the game I was very impressed

Wasn't it more freeform than I-War 1? I played the demo of the first 
one but never got round to getting either of them.

> also Hardwar, which kind of Elitey but set on a moon with a mining facility.
> Very cool game.

Yeah, I've got that one. Amazing game, the whole moth concept was 
unique together with having a day/night cycle that actually meant 
something. Trading system and the way all of the AI ships got on with 
their own agenda was fantastic.

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> I'm looking at several space games with a view to purchasing one or two,
> but they all seem to have pros and cons, included are:

> Freespace 1 & 2

Never played either of these, although I vaquely recall them being 
well thought of by quite a few players.

> Freelancer

Was that the Microsoft one? Never played it.

> The various X games

I enjoyed X1 and its expansion pack X-Tension immensely but never got 
round to getting the sequels due to a combination of not having the 
system specs at the time and intermittent PC problems (now fixed).

>  and I'm still looking,

Elite 4's in development, but that's not going to be out any time 
soon. No rush really, and they can't afford another repeat of what 
happened with FFE.

>>Great to hear from you, by the way. I was recently going over my links
>>pages and was shocked by how many of the people of the old 'Elite
>>Scene' seem to have gone their separate ways.

> I've just recently bumped into another former alt.fan.elite regular, Colin
> Wilson, who has been very helpful with pc advice.

Yeah, his name's familiar.

> What's the status of your FFE project Graham?

I'm working on an update for my FFE site, having got back into the 
game recently - I had stopped playing for quite a while due to having 
a lot of other games I wanted to play more and losing my Dubya save 
due to having to reformat my XP machine (recovery wouldn't work).

Another factor for resuming work is it gives me something productive 
to do with my little A9home (http://www.thea9.info) that I got last 
year.

Probably have something new put up in the next week or so, including 
updated Guide and Trade pages (which I've been working on today) 
updates to a couple of ship reviews, complete Equipment Reviews and 
maybe a couple of other bits and bobs.

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