I was with my brother visiting a computer store the other day. And I saw the
most amazing piece of software! It was called Star General. Made by
the same folks who made Panzer General. (Those who don't know -- Panzer
General is a wargame simulating world war 2 from the view point of a German
general. You can start out at various points during the war, and fight the
historical campanes. You can even get into "what-if" scenarios if you
win/lose at the wrong times...It is pretty good.)
Anyway...Star General is supposed to use an advanced Panzer General engine.
You can play one of 5(?) races, and command space AND ground forces. The other
positions can be players, or computers, upto eight at a time!
If it is as good as Panzer General, It will be worth getting.
I am going to get it as soon as I can afford it!
OBOYOBOYOBOYOBOYahhhahahahahah!!!! Drool! Drool!
Sorry.....My inner child escaped for a moment....
SG is OK. Don't get too excited, it has its problems. It is not as good of a
game as PG.
Paul
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From: hosford.donald[SMTP:hosford.donald@email.acd.net]
Sent: Monday, January 13, 1997 8:34 PM
To: FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
Subject: Computer game
I was with my brother visiting a computer store the other day. And I saw the
most amazing piece of software! It was called Star General. Made by
the same folks who made Panzer General. (Those who don't know -- Panzer
General is a wargame simulating world war 2 from the view point of a German
general. You can start out at various points during the war, and fight the
historical campanes. You can even get into "what-if" scenarios if you
win/lose at the wrong times...It is pretty good.)
Anyway...Star General is supposed to use an advanced Panzer General engine.
You can play one of 5(?) races, and command space AND ground forces. The other
positions can be players, or computers, upto eight at a time!
If it is as good as Panzer General, It will be worth getting.
I am going to get it as soon as I can afford it!
OBOYOBOYOBOYOBOYahhhahahahahah!!!! Drool! Drool!
Sorry.....My inner child escaped for a moment....
> hosford.donald wrote:
The
> other positions can be players, or computers, upto eight at a time!
do not try to play under (the Evil) Win95 - unless you have 32 meg of
RAM :-(
Runs quite well under DOS 6.22 and is quite amusing, as with PG there is
usually only one way to win a given scenario, but the campaign system
is good - not a patch on a large game of FT though..
Seeya
> At 06:07 PM 1/14/97 +1000, you wrote:
> Got the game three days ago - it is good... BUT:
32 Meg, isn't that almost standard these days with Ram prices so low?
:)
On another note how is the "new" engine, have they managed to fix most of the
glitches found in their previous "General" games?
> At 09:16 PM 1/13/97 -0800, you wrote:
Problems? Like what kind of problems?
> At 06:07 PM 1/14/97 +1000, you wrote:
I agree with you on Win95 (That is MY opinion all you nit pickers out there.)
Though I wonder what you are supossed to do with 32 megs? I don't think I will
ever have that much.
> Runs quite well under DOS 6.22 and is quite amusing, as with PG there
Do you think it is a good buy?
Speaking of Star General, you can download a playable demo at www.ogr.com.
It's like 7-10 megs, but worth it if you can get a good connection.
Take care,
> At 04:32 PM 1/14/97 +0000, you wrote:
I have optomized my pc for playing games....12 megs do me just
fine....though I did talk to one of my friends who uses a cad-cam
program. My brother and I are more concerned about having enough hard disk
storage! We just went through the painfull process of installing a 3.2 Gig
drive....nothing EVER goes easy!
Date sent: 14-JAN-1997 16:27:49
> I agree with you on Win95 (That is MY opinion all you nit pickers out
Anyone who hasn't looked at Memmory prices in the last few months or so should
do so now. They have dropped steeply. And modern programming being what it is,
you'll need all the memmory your Motherboard and OS can handle.
> Larry Jeselon wrote:
:)
<GRIN> RAM is more expensive in some countries than in others...
> hosford.donald wrote:
I have played three scenarios so far - and won all three pretty easily,
the AI seems a bit lame and the game has no way to increase difficulty -
I must say that it isn't going to keep me away from MOO 2 for long...
> At 07:59 AM 1/15/97 +1000, you wrote:
I'm in Michigan, USA. Over here, it costs $45.00. That was the price in the
store!
As to the AI...I have enough of a challenge beating the AI in Panzer
General...
I do have one question....Can you play it over a lan? My friend and I want to
play it head to head.
> Adam Delafield wrote:
Over the last year and a half the average price per meg dropped from $42 to
$5. Now if monitor prices could drop a bit...
> In message <009AE5C1.0CB1CC19.35@basil.acs.bolton.ac.uk> you wrote:
> Anyone who hasn't looked at Memmory prices in the last few months or
Hmmm, speak for yourself. Some of us are using OSes written the
old way - ie well - and could quite happily get by on 4MB.
But then, some of us buy British...:)
> Hmmm, speak for yourself. Some of us are using OSes written the
And some of us run Linux on a nice 4meg box. Sans X, but who /really/
needs that kind of overhead just for some pretty bells and whistles, hmmm?
[Actually, I can't say that any more; I'm running an old ULTRIX box
from the office here, now, which means my OS is excrable, but old and solid.
Of course, the DECstation its running on has 64meg...:)]
Noise ratio creeping up!!!!! Sam get off your soap box. The Lord Gates
provides for all!
> On 20 Jan 97 at 16:30, Simon Campbell-Smith wrote:
> Noise ratio creeping up!!!!! Sam get off your soap box. The Lord Gates
> provides for all!
Pot - Kettle - Black?
Simon - until you can fix that Winmail.Dat attachment that a Gates
product fixes to your every mail I suggest criticising others for noise is a
little bit rich.
> At 05:58 PM 1/20/97 +0001, you wrote:
> Pot - Kettle - Black?
Hear, hear! I just scrubbed a bunch of WINMAIL.DAT files from my hard drive,
all courtesy of Simon. No offence to Simon, but I've seen people bounced off
mailing lists for less.