Doug Williams

I had to Google "Safari" to even know what you were talking about. Since I put my hands on my first computer (the Apple IIe) in 1983 I have wanted to be cool enough to own an Apple product. After all, Ultima 1 was originally programmed on an Apple by Lord British. Ultima 1 - 4 are the Genesis of CRPGs, IMO. Alas, I failed. I never managed to purchase anything Apple related. These days, the only people I know who own Apple products are a few girls at work who have i-phones.

That makes perfect sense. I usually keep two PCs going. The primary one receives all the latest upgrades. The secondary one gets hand-me-downs when the primary is upgraded. Heck, I used to keep a 386 DOS system built, just for playing really old games, until I discovered DOSBOX.

Really? Well I suggest they join a good gaming club and find some human opponents. I would estimate my CM playing at 80% PBEM, 20% solo VS AI (when I'm waiting on turns).

If by "people" you mean myself, I beg to differ sir. I bought my SSD because I wanted an SSD, not because I thought it would speed up CMBN load times, although that would have been nice. Shullencraft had already informed me, prior to my purchase, that it probably would not. When I purchased my current MB/CPU/Ram combo, it was because I felt, at that time, it would provide the best bang-for-the-buck, not because I was hoping CMBN would run on all four cores. CMBN wasn't even released yet, and it was replacing my aging Prescott single core system which had a hardware limit of 4 gig. Some of us don't make all our hardware decisions on whether or not it will make CMBN run better. :-P

Interesting thread. OP, as I am sure you know by now, the 2.0 upgrade price has been announced as $10. If you have a problem with that, I respectfully submit that you quit playing all computer games and go find a job. :-)

Would it be easier to make them as H2H only scenarios?

Interesting thread. Does BFC make any effort to keep track of the hardware their customers are using to run their products? I imagine this would be very useful information for a gaming company. I build my own PCs, and tend to upgrade every two or three years, so I tend to stay fairly current on hardware. My current system is getting a bit "long in the tooth" (2.8 GHz core 2 quad, 8 gig of ram), so I predict a motherboard/cpu/ram swap possibly before the end of this year. CMBN runs great on my current system, once the map loads. That is the only minor annoyance I have....long load times, even with an SSD (which didn't seem to make much difference in load times). Once the scenario is loaded and the game starts, everything is very smooth.

This has been an interesting thread. Thanks for starting it. And thanks, Steve, for clearing up the events surrounding the "Computer Squad Leader"/Hasbro/CM1 connection. Like many of you, I am a former ASL player. Actually, I was more of an original SL player. I bought many ASL items, but never mastered it. Too many rules, I guess. I finally wound up selling all my ASL stuff on eBay (for a lot of money) a few years after CM1 was released and I realized that I would probably never play ASL again. I do, however, think it would be cool to see some direct translations of some of the more popular SL/ASL scenarios into CMx2. Probably too many legal issues for that to happen, unfortunately.

$10 is a fair and reasonable price. I will happily pay it for the added features. Thank you, BFC, for giving us this method of keeping the older released up to date with the newer ones.

I agree with the OP. Mix is a poor substitute for CM1's Combined Arms. Mix can be fun, and should stay in the game, but adding Combined Arms would be very nice.

We're just more focused than women are. Laundry and hygene are distractions. ;-)

I have never had a computer "just stop working". Every computer I have ever built has gone obsolete and/or reached the end of it's upgrade path prior to hardware failure. This myth about Macs being bulletproof is just that. Hardware is hardware, be it solid state, or mechanical. It will all fail at some point. The software is another matter. You are either willing to put up some some uncertainty to have a larger library of software available, or you are not. If not, go Apple.

Paying for the upgrades does not bother me at all, as long as the price is reasonable. Thank you for giving us this option.

Unlike PC games, where we live Wild & Free. Sure, we might have some technical issues, because the stuff we try to run isn't approved and tested by Big Brother, but we man up and solve it like the guy in the Viagra commercial who pours some bottled water into his classic sports car's radiator when it overheats out in the desert. We solve it and we play our games, and we don't expect pappa Jobs (RIP) to come dumb down everything and make it "easy" for us, because having everything be EASY is the New American Way. No child left behind, don't ya know? Easy Peasy, yesssir! Can't hack it? No problem. The government, and Apple, with make everything better. Just a little pinprick, there'll be no more, but you may feel a little sick...... ;-)

Directly from BFC would be my advice. Why go through a middle man when you can buy direct from the manufacturer? BTW, when did software become "apps"? Damn kids.

I am not even convinced of Apple's survivability with Steve Jobs' death. He was such a driving force in the company, such a "hands on" CEO....I wonder if someone else with half his vision and personality will emerge to lead the company?

Heh, is that a joke? The first PC I ever touched was an Apple IIe, back in high school, where we learned to program simple BASIC. The first PC I ever owned was a Commodore 64 in 1984, which I could only afford after I finished army basic training between my junior and senior years of high school. From there, I bought the Amiga.....and then Commodore folded. Left with two choices, Apple or IBM, I went with IBM "clones", built my first MS-DOS system, which, if I remember correctly, was a 386 16MHz, and have been building my own ever since. It's a lot easier now than it was back then.

A couple of years ago I bought my wife a Dell Laptop, which was the first manufactured computer I had purchased since my Amiga 500 back in the 1980s. First thing I did was spend at least an hour removing all the bloatware crap that Dell ships their product loaded with. It has worked fine since then. I occasionally, when she is not around, run Registry Mechanic, and make sure her anti malware/antivirus software is functioning properly. Happy wife, happy life. Lack of game support for the Mac is probably the reason I never paid much attention to it. Quite frankly, my home PC is used 60% for gaming, 30% for web surfing, and 10% for "serious" stuff.

I knew Apple still existed, and was doing very well. I just thought their main product line was I-Phones and I-Pads. I never see Macs at work, and I build my own PCs, so it never really occured to me until recently that they were still around. But anyway, OP. Sounds to me like your laptop (if that's what a "Macbook" is) is more than capable of running CMBN in either OS. Well, I can really only speak for Windows 7....but it should be more than enough for that. IIRC, CMBN is only able to access up to 4 gig of ram. Old code. D.

My DI used to use that term....along with "Billy Bad Ass". Good stuff.

I never realized the Macintosh was still being manufactured until I returned to this forum with the release of CMBN.

It's a computer game. You want realism? Join the army and head to Afghanistan, unless you are too old and fat, like most of us. ;-) Grats on your victory. I love random QBs. I also like buying Crack troops and making my tanks go real fast in reverse....all while drinking wine and chuckling to myself evilly.

Wasteland 2 via Kickstarter was a success, to put it mildly.

Ok, next turn two of the teams decided to actually start firing their MGs.