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In article <6a40d39b50.jades@d.thurlwell.btopenworld.com>, 
nospam@jades.org says...
> 
> On the 30 Aug 2009, "Angus Manwaring" 
> <angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk> wrote:

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

pc now here and in use.   :(

> 
> 
> > 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.
> 

Well, I've not played I-War 1, but certainly in the second, you seemed 
to get a good indication of which way the plot was going and how to 
follow it, but you were (I think) fairly free to do your own thing.

Its been a while though, and I didn't play the game in great depth.


> > 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.


Yes, and I even thought the video footage was well done - the guy who 
ran the hardware place, and was slowly going down with radiation 
sickness was great.

I still miss him.  :)

> 
> > 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).

I hear a lot of conflicting stuff about the X games - I recently saw a 
very funny US TV review of X3 on Youtube, worth a look if you can find 
it.

> 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.

I'm still waitiing for the promised Amiga version!!

I suspect, I'll have been forced to buy another computer before that 
game is seem.

I just hope my spacestation is still in it.


> > 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).
> 

I'm hearing that Acronis Perfect Image (?) is supposed to be good for 
that.

> 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.

Sound good, please keep us posted.