Yea, Microprose brought out some of the best games ever and are sadly missed <img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//sad.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' /> EA just got so money orientated they lost that creative edge they used to have, today for instance I was in my local Supermarket and saw C&C 4 for sale. There was a time a C&C game would have been straight into my shopping basket, but I know this is a pale shadow of what C&C used to be and left it just were it was. I just cant be bothered with their mail-ware DRM rubbish anymore. Hopefully they will wake up one day...............

Edit: had a look on Ciao and your review has vanished, but the game is still listed here http://www.ciao.co.u... ... C__7914539

Pff! Micro$oft? The ultimate rip off merchants! <img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_evil.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':evil:' /> Oh don't get started on them! <img src="' http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_lol.gi f"' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' />

original mail you find on the pioneer thread

have phun

I really like this site: Home of the Underdogs, not totally comprehensive, yet good information for the games they have. (They still might not tell you if it is legal to post the ROMs for these games)

Here are some of my favorite classic space games from back in the C64/Amiga days and more recent Win95 days:

Stellar Conflict (Amiga)

Overloard (a.k.a. supremacy) (Amiga)

Obliterator (Amiga)

Star Control (Had this for Amiga and Sega Genesis)

Star Reach (this one I think I played on my IBM PS/2)

Master of Orion II (To this day MOO II is my all-time favorite game)

There were others of course, some I can't remember the names or find them online.

I can relate to that. A while ago I started wondering if it was really as good as I remembered it. So I dug out my old cd and fired it up. Yup, its still as good as it was back then. 🙂

I'd say that there are a few games now that have done some of the individual aspects better than MOO2 like diplomacy, research, ship design or economy ect, but to this day no game has managed to put all of these things together in such an amazing little package like MOO2.

Another example of this is the space combat, its still very good but I know of two games that do it better... Battleships Forever and Gratuitous Space Battles.

However those games are only about combat, where-as MOO2 is a whole Empire management game and combat is but one part of the game.

I actually think Space Empires 5 has came the closest to reaching MOO2. I really enjoyed that game, but the AI was too much of a let-down in the end-game.

Truly? I have never had a problem with Home of the Underdogs...

And all the games get ran through dosbox, so unless a virus knows how to propogate itself through dosbox, I would not see it having any effect... ??

What browser do you use Aero? That could have something to do with it. I use firefox with noscript and adblock. There is just no way for a virus to get on my screen unless I download it and run it 🙂

Abandonia is another good one, actually I think its probably better than underdogs.