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Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> X-Wing Alliance last of the real Star Wars space sims, so graphically
> it's the nicest looking.  Although it only works properly using software
> rendering on my Windows 7 machine.  There's also Windows versions of
> the original X-Wing, and Tie Fighter games.

If you're going to play the original X-Wing and TIE-Fighter games, troll 
for the DOS CD-ROM versions; the graphics aren't as good, but the 
Windows versions were rather hackish ports bolted onto the X-Wing vs TIE 
Fighter engine.  These days even a netbook ought to be able to run them 
in DOSBox just fine.  Of course you'll need a real joystick.  And the 
games are *tough*.

(XWA was a pretty solid game too.  As was XvT's campaign.  Boo to
 LucasArts for subsequently taking all Star Wars development in-house 
 and butchering everything that followed..)

> 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.

Privateer is The Greatest Game Evar(tm).  Not that I feel strongly about 
it or anything.  But the older Wing Commander games all got ported to 
Windows as part of the so-called 'Kilrathi Saga' release.  Privateer 2 
suffered from not quite being balanced right, but was fun.

(The Privateer Gemini Gold remake is decent enough, but doesn't "feel" 
 the same as the original. It keeps getting clsoer though)

> I've heard good things about Tachyon: The Fringe, but I haven't played it.
> There's also DarkStar One that gets metioned from time to time here,
> but not usually postively.

Tachyon was quite good (albeit with a couple of odd design choices) but 
DarkStar One... too arcade-y for my tastes, with the magical 
powerup/upgrade crystals thing.

The X-series of games are supposedly pretty good (never actually played 
'em myself; I'm told they have a bit of a learning curve).  The 
Freespace games are *very* good, especially the second.

 - Solomon
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