Thanks Zac!

I'd like to see OGRE here on STEAM be everything it can be and fully functioning_FIRST_

Originally posted by AurochJake:

Originally posted by Zac Starfire:

Great Game! I'd like to see CarWars or Autoduel done next by Auroch Digital!

In case you didn't know, we're working on Dark Future: Blood Red States, based on Games Workshop's Dark Future which is similar to Car Wars :)

Thank you, I did not know! I havent played the GW version. Cant wait until its out!

Autoduel (just a port using OG data files and slightly updated graphics, and more updated music) is now available from Steve Jackson games. http://www.warehouse23.com/products/autoduel

Nice, I'm going to jump on that !!! Thanks

I got it

Wow, I never played it in COLOR, lol

If it's the old DOS game, then that's not the kind of CW digital port I want. I want the original art with the original rules. That's a game I would buy in a heartbeat.

Originally posted by Duck Twacy:

If it's the old DOS game, then that's not the kind of CW digital port I want. I want the original art with the original rules. That's a game I would buy in a heartbeat.

It has the original art and rules, not sure what your looking for. I would define it as neither a port or emulation, since it is running entirely in Unity and Mono (open source .NET) somehow. But it does appear to be running with the original assets. It is very simple with nothing extra. You get also the PC and MAC versions. For $1, what do you really expect?!?!

I run it on Hyper-V virtual gaming machine with Win7 so I don't have to change the resolution and can run it in a low resolution window and with sound via RDP. I run a lot of older games successfully this way.

I mean the actual game, not the old DOS game from way back when. That game was ... a children's game, nearly. It was a real ATARI 2600 like game with relative "hi res" graphics compared to ATARI or other DOS offerings.

Yeah, I'm not expecting much for a dollar, which is why I want the actual CW game, not the 80s interpretation.

I'll just add in general that I thought decades ago that all of those Microgames and SPI Space Capsule games and other games from the late 70s up through the 80s would have digital ports by now. I thought they would all have some PC version by 1985. But now it's over thirty years later, and it's only NOW that Ogre has gotten a respectable port?

I would have been happy with a counter and colored map game. The old black and white PC version of the game was garbage. As was the first CW/Autoduel game. I'm trying to wrap my head around that.

A lot of that bafflement comes from the fact that I grew up where the computer industry spawned and expanded. Software developers were a dime a dozen. I guess they still are in a sense, but it's all big business now, and there aren't as many startups as there were. But I really thought someone would have ported real good versions of Dragonrage, Kung Fu 2000, Starfire, The Creature that Ate Sheboyigan ages ago. And it never happened.

Whatever.

I can't do face to face gaming anymore for security reasons, so ... I guess I should be glad to have Ogre as it is. But it's like all the bugs, all the content that never saw the light of day, and all the youth oriented junk that's on Steam when in the late 70s up through the 90s PC Games were for all ages, and not just pre-teens. In fact a lot of it was aimed at post grads and older.

So, just a little venting. I don't know what goes on in Texas at Ausin or Amaraillo, and I don't want to know. I'm not going to move there. And I know the computer industry has expanded, which makes it more puzzling as to why there weren't more digital ports for a lot of games. But, like I say, I guess I should be thankful for Ogre as is ... but I'd still like better SFX for the infantry units.