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#1 2003-01-16 10:15 am
- rsherhod
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Best space combat games available for Mac
I've been looking around for a good space combat game for Mac. The PC market is full of um, and I've got a couple for my PC. What space combat games are available for Macs, and what are they like.
Space combat games with the ability to buy and upgrade your ships, Mercinary/Pirate stuff are good.
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#2 2003-01-16 6:37 pm
- Aslan
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Re: Best space combat games available for Mac
Escape Velocity might be what you're looking for. Go here: www.ambrosiasw.com/games and click on the link for EV:Nova. There are two prequels too if you are running MacOS 9 or earlier. I don't know how they perform in Classic though.
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#3 2003-01-16 7:09 pm
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Re: Best space combat games available for Mac
I agree.
They are all great games.
The plugins expand their life too.
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#4 2003-01-16 7:11 pm
- skymt0
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Re: Best space combat games available for Mac
Escape Velocity might be what you're looking for. Go here: www.ambrosiasw.com/games and click on the link for EV:Nova. There are two prequels too if you are running MacOS 9 or earlier. I don't know how they perform in Classic though.
I knew someone'd point out EV for me! 
Really, EV's the best. Get all off the games, the first 2 work poyfect in Classic.
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#5 2003-01-17 5:04 am
- rsherhod
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Re: Best space combat games available for Mac
yeah i've played the 3 ev games... ev nova rocks. But i was kinda asking about 3d first person flight sims, like freespace and descent
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#6 2003-01-17 5:45 am
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Re: Best space combat games available for Mac
Haven't tried it yet, but Young's Modulus, by the designer of X-Plane, looks promising.
http://www.macaddict.com/phpBB2/viewtop … 824ad9d98c
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#7 2003-01-17 7:50 am
- skymt0
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Re: Best space combat games available for Mac
Haven't tried it yet, but Young's Modulus, by the designer of X-Plane, looks promising.
Naah, don't bother. It's a buggy, boring mess. Bleh. 
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#8 2003-01-17 10:27 am
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Re: Best space combat games available for Mac
yeah i've played the 3 ev games... ev nova rocks. But i was kinda asking about 3d first person flight sims, like freespace and descent
I don't think any new ones exist.
I think that Ambrosia is working on one though. Just search their forums for Ragnarock (I know this game is dead but it was used to new screenshots of the new game).
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#9 2003-01-17 12:54 pm
- skymt0
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Re: Best space combat games available for Mac
yeah i've played the 3 ev games... ev nova rocks. But i was kinda asking about 3d first person flight sims, like freespace and descent
Freespace was never made for Mac (I don't think), and "freespace and descent" is a bit redundant since freespace is actually Descent: Freespace. [/nitpicking]
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#10 2003-01-17 11:02 pm
- electric27
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Re: Best space combat games available for Mac
Here's one: Combine MMO games with 1st person 3d goodness, shake, make a beta, and you get vendetta. head over to http://vendetta.guildsoftware.com I play a lot because there's accually a good community, and it's always changing, highly recommened.
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#11 2003-01-17 11:05 pm
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Re: Best space combat games available for Mac
I tried that game but found it rather confusing.
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#12 2003-01-19 3:05 pm
- Locke Cole
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Re: Best space combat games available for Mac
There's always Terminus...
Be forewarned though, it's long, hard, and very trying on your patience.
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#13 2003-01-19 9:58 pm
Re: Best space combat games available for Mac
Actually, just randomly found an open source project called VegaStrike:
http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/
From the look of the site, it seems to be a 3D perspective escape velocity...
JUST finished the download (almost 95 megs!!! -- use something that supports resume) and opened it up for about 30 seconds before reading the manual, just to make sure my megar system could support it...and it looks pretty sweet.
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult?
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#15 2003-01-19 10:33 pm
- ViralDoctor
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Re: Best space combat games available for Mac
Downloading Vegastrike...
Yahoo!
181kb/sec down using safari! That's awesome compared to IE, which doesn't get that great speeds...
I hope this game is good!
I have vendetta, and if you can learn it, it is quite fun, but I can see how it can get boring after a while. I would like to see some EV elements in it too.
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#16 2003-01-19 10:37 pm
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Re: Best space combat games available for Mac
Maelstrom is a fun diversion. (Ambrosia game for the old system, now free and runs native in X.)
http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo. … amp;db=mac
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#17 2003-01-19 10:59 pm
- ViralDoctor
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I hope this game is good!
Vegastrike is not for me, it feels like an old game I would have played about five years ago on dos or something.
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#18 2003-01-20 5:55 pm
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Re: Best space combat games available for Mac
X-Wing or TIE Fighter always seemed like the best to me. Very complicated gameplay but you don't go off trading spices or other useless crap. Tho the graphics are way outdated on these two gems.
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#19 2003-01-20 6:43 pm
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Re: Best space combat games available for Mac
X-Wing or TIE Fighter always seemed like the best to me. Very complicated gameplay but you don't go off trading spices or other useless crap. Tho the graphics are way outdated on these two gems.
Those games were awesome.
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#20 2003-01-21 10:36 am
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X-Wing and TIE Fighter are two of my favorite Mac games of all time.
And neither of them run in Classic.
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#21 2003-01-22 1:23 am
- NightCougar_37
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Re: Best space combat games available for Mac
Man there hasnt been any really good space flight sims for Mac the last few years. Heck there hasnt even been any so-so space flight sims either 
. Nothing new at all cause no ones making anything . But if you can find them heres some sweet ones (hint: if you can find them):
-X-Wing
-Tie Fighter
-Wing Commander IV
Out of those 3 the one with the better graphics (only cause they show texturing) is Wing Commander IV. Really if you want flight sims set in space, PC is all there is . Or get a Dreamcast and get Starlancer . The DC version of Starlancer does not have the M$ name on it cause it was made right before M$ bought them out 
. Boy I sure do love Starlancer. When I first played the DC demo I couldnt put it down for days (graphics in the demo are better sadly ). Mmmmm, thinkin about it right now just makes me want to go play it again .
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#22 2003-01-22 1:21 pm
- oolatec
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Re: Best space combat games available for Mac
SPACEWARD HO! demmit! That game rules!
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#23 2003-01-23 4:21 pm
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Re: Best space combat games available for Mac
Whatever happened to Parsec? A free, cross-platform (Mac, PC, Linux) multiplayer 3D space combat free-for-all. With rather nice graphics, I might add.
They do have a playable LAN test available... hopefully the final version is on the horizon and they haven't abandoned the project.
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#24 2003-01-24 8:08 pm
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I dunno...when an open source project doesn't see a new release for 14 months, i tend to think of it as dead...
Damn shame too. That one looked promising.
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#25 2003-01-25 3:47 am
- delta wolph
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Re: Best space combat games available for Mac
i love terminus, i got it for $5 from electronics boutique.....its an older game, but SO great...... although it takes a while to figure out how to play
good graphics, good physcs, funness, but big learning curve
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