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On 8 Apr 2006 15:00:47 -0700, "mars" <gpdmdc@tiscali.it> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>can anybody remind the name of that pc game I played end of the 90s
>where earth troopers had to fight martians, I think the setting was on
>the moon, the look and feel was very similar to Age of Empires, it was
>not of course the recent last version of that series though, and was
>not based on the film of the marines in space which go to mars and blow
>everything up; neither were out at the time.
>
>The first trooper you could move around would say "orders!" and the
>first order you would give it was move around to which he would say
>"search and destroy!", rings a bell? As the trouper moved around the
>scenario would show up, otherwise the unexplored surroundings were
>blacked out.
>
>I think I also remember one the martian war machines looked like a
>mixture between a creature and a tank and shot things at the troopers
>from its tail...but then it was such along time ago.
>
>One could choose to play either on the side of earth or play for the
>martians.
>There were missions to accomplish, then one would advance in level and
>the game got harder.
>
>Do you remember the name of the game?
>
>Thanks!  
>
>mars

Dark Colony :
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/darkcolony/index.html

It used to be on Underdogs, but that site went tits up!

Good game, but too much like Warcraft. 

Shingen wrote:

> 
> Dark Colony :
> http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/darkcolony/index.html
> 
> It used to be on Underdogs, but that site went tits up!

If you use the ip address in place of the address, things should still 
be in place.

I recall something about a name server problem. Hope it gets fixed, 
though. It would be one hell of a loss of a great (and legal) 
abandonware site. I've always been more than happy to give 'em ad 
click-thrus for anything useful I've found.



-Will

Thats it!

"Dark Colony", I downloaded the Demo and really looks good. In the demo
the trooper does not say "Search and destroy" and the graphics are not
as good as I remember them, but thats probably due both to the demo and
the fact that a lot of time has passed since.

I am vary happy now :-)

Thanks!

William Bradshaw wrote:
> Shingen wrote:
> 
>>
>> Dark Colony :
>> http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/darkcolony/index.html
>>
>> It used to be on Underdogs, but that site went tits up!
> 
> If you use the ip address in place of the address, things should still 
> be in place.
> 
> I recall something about a name server problem. Hope it gets fixed, 
> though. It would be one hell of a loss of a great (and legal) 
> abandonware site. I've always been more than happy to give 'em ad 
> click-thrus for anything useful I've found.

What is the ip address?

Thanks

-- 
Derek

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:51:28 +0100, Derek Baker
<me@derekbaker.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:

>William Bradshaw wrote:
>> Shingen wrote:
>> 
>>>
>>> Dark Colony :
>>> http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/darkcolony/index.html
>>>
>>> It used to be on Underdogs, but that site went tits up!
>> 
>> If you use the ip address in place of the address, things should still 
>> be in place.
>> 
>> I recall something about a name server problem. Hope it gets fixed, 
>> though. It would be one hell of a loss of a great (and legal) 
>> abandonware site. I've always been more than happy to give 'em ad 
>> click-thrus for anything useful I've found.
>
>What is the ip address?

Add these three lines to your hosts file:

209.120.136.195 www.the-underdogs.org
209.120.136.196 files.the-underdogs.org
209.120.136.195 www.the-underdogs.info

If you are using XP, then hosts can be found in:

c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\

IIRC on older windows systems hosts is in c:\windows\

If you are using Linux it's in:

/etc

(But then if you are using Linux you already knew that.)

Lemming
-- 
Curiosity *may* have killed Schrodinger's cat.