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#1

Computer Gaming / Re: Matrix Sale

Last post by ArizonaTank - Today at 09:08:03 AM

If a game doesn't run use the forums - some games are quite easy to "fix", some impossible. Don't know how technically adept you are but LaunchBox & DOSbox can be useful for some older games.

My Win11 rig is usually pretty sensitive when it comes to running older games. For some reason Matrix's latest version of Steel Panthers runs fine for me...guess I just got lucky.

Some other things to try are running the game "as administrator," trying some of the "compatibility modes," skipping the Matrix menu and running the SPAWAW executable directly, and temporarily turning off any anti-virus protection. 

[War of the Austrian Succession]

#2

Wargame Design Studio / Re: Musket & Pike Thread

Last post by ArizonaTank - Today at 08:47:19 AM

And now something completely new... a preview of the next installment in the Musket & Pike series - War of the Austrian Succession! Head on over to todays blog post to read all about it.

https://wargameds.com/blogs/news/war-of-the-austrian-succession-preview

Nice to see the new game will cover Bonnie Prince Charlie's '45 Jacobite rebellion in Scotland.

#3

Current Events / Re: Russia's War Against Ukrai...

Last post by Tripoli - Today at 07:19:25 AM

I have seen pictures (of a few fires and A LOT of smoke), and I've heard claims of a widespread destruction at the Torovets (?) supply depot based on IR imaging and live photos.  Media claims to have seen pictures revealing extensive blast damage and/or huge areas of destruction, but I've not seen any actual pictures that show more than a few fires and TONS of smoke.

Anything that the Ukrainians can do to damage/disperse Russian logistics is a win.  I just haven't seen any pictures that prove more than a half-dozen or so buildings were destroyed.  Am I looking in the wrong place? 

Or are the extrapolations about the magnitude of the blast (some saying 1.4 KT and a fire covering 5 square miles) based on distant seismology sensors and anecdotal reports of a blast wave felt 200 miles away?  If the smoke hasn't cleared and the fires are still burning, I guess that's a good thing (from a Ukrainian point of view, at least).

Here's an image of the scale of the fires using the Fire Information for Resource Managment System (FIRMS) system: https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@31.68,56.53,11.67z  Apparently the explosion registered as a 3.2 mag. earthquake

According to this article, about 14 square kilometers was affected: https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-weapons-attack/33126058.html

#4

Computer Gaming / Re: Sea Power: Naval Combat in...

Last post by PAK - Today at 06:50:54 AM

Looks as Fleet Command on steroids.

#5

Computer Gaming / Re: Matrix Sale

Last post by Phantom - Today at 04:13:47 AM

If a game doesn't run use the forums - some games are quite easy to "fix", some impossible. Don't know how technically adept you are but LaunchBox & DOSbox can be useful for some older games.

[War of the Austrian Succession]

#6

Wargame Design Studio / Re: Musket & Pike Thread

Last post by rahamy - Today at 03:51:49 AM

And now something completely new... a preview of the next installment in the Musket & Pike series - War of the Austrian Succession! Head on over to todays blog post to read all about it.

https://wargameds.com/blogs/news/war-of-the-austrian-succession-preview

#7

Current Events / Re: Russia's War Against Ukrai...

Last post by FarAway Sooner - Yesterday at 11:27:18 PM

I have seen pictures (of a few fires and A LOT of smoke), and I've heard claims of a widespread destruction at the Torovets (?) supply depot based on IR imaging and live photos.  Media claims to have seen pictures revealing extensive blast damage and/or huge areas of destruction, but I've not seen any actual pictures that show more than a few fires and TONS of smoke.

Anything that the Ukrainians can do to damage/disperse Russian logistics is a win.  I just haven't seen any pictures that prove more than a half-dozen or so buildings were destroyed.  Am I looking in the wrong place? 

Or are the extrapolations about the magnitude of the blast (some saying 1.4 KT and a fire covering 5 square miles) based on distant seismology sensors and anecdotal reports of a blast wave felt 200 miles away?  If the smoke hasn't cleared and the fires are still burning, I guess that's a good thing (from a Ukrainian point of view, at least).

#8

Computer Gaming / Re: Matrix Sale

Last post by glen55 - Yesterday at 11:03:47 PM

Steel Panthers is indeed awesome. I didn't realize there were 2 pages, so I didn't even see it until I went back and looked.

Bought it. Started it up. Crashed. Will try again late.

#9

Computer Gaming / Re: Sea Power: Naval Combat in...

Last post by JasonPratt - Yesterday at 06:03:21 PM

GUYS GUYS HAVE YOU SEEN THIS NEW GAME COMing... oh.

Good! 

Please accept this New Jersey Godzilla-classing the opposition as yet another preview, courtesy of Wolfpack.

#10

Music, TV, Movies / Re: RIP -- James Earl Jones

Last post by W8taminute - Yesterday at 05:32:01 PM

I absolutely love Vera Lynn's voice and songs. (song starts at 0:50)

Great song.  I recently found this version which I think is also pretty good.  I don't know why, but this song sometimes brings a tear to my eye.

RIP