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From: noman
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:45

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Ross Ridge wrote:

> Privateer is an old MS-DOS game that was apparently the inspiration for
> Freelancer.  You might like it if you can get past the dated graphics.
> There's also the whole Wing Commander series that's it's based on,
> but again they're all MS-DOS games except last one which got ported
> to Windows.

There is a fan-made remake of Privateer. It's freeware and is quite faithful
to the original game. It runs on Vegastrike engine in Windows and Linux.

I highly recommend the five Wing Commander games. They all work fine with
DosBox on a Windows PC. Used copies are still available and have decent
prices.
--
Noman

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