JonMcGuire

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Wolfpack: I have to go all the way back to No Greater Glory. Now there was a fun game I'll never be able to play again....Thanks Windows 2000...bastards...mumble mumble. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Whistler (the successor to Win2K) has a compatibility mode which provides a pretty good runtime envoironment for Win95, Win98, and Win2K apps which don't run under Whistler natively. I've actually dug up a few games that worked under Win98 and not Win2K and they ran in Whistler's compatibility mode. Worth a shot.

1. Battle of Gettysburg on the TRS-80 Color Computer. It had arty with big thumps and flashes on impact... ooo, multimedia (on my 9" color TV). 2. Ancient Art of War. The bottom line: many, many scenarios. The slouchy little army men reminded me of the half-dead guys in the mostly-forgotten Avalon Hill board game "Survival". The War at Sea version never caught my attention (I was hooked on AH's board game Wooden Ships & Iron Men -- there's a disappointing PC conversion for you, by the way). 3. Avalon Hill's Battle of Midway, proudly written in GWBASIC for the PC-XT. Probably the first one that played differently each time and was actually challenging. I still have the (heavily modified) code around here somewhere... if I could just find a 5.25" floppy drive... 4. Galactic Empire for the Sanyo MBC-550. Not a great game, but I mention it because it was the first computer program I sold for real money (at the ripe old age of 13). Mostly a rip-off of the same old Empire games that had already been floating around for 15 years, but "back in the day" that was SOP. And none of them, not even the venerable Dark Tower mentioned earlier, come within visual acquisition range of the amazement I felt in the first five minutes I spent with Combat Mission...