At long last somebody has stept up to revamp these two good old classics.

Both versions will 'soon' (mid 2003) be released as with minor modification (mostly bugfixes) and updated so they will work well under all versions of windows.

This new version will be know as the ancient version and later an enhanced version of both programs will be released.

Please look here for more information:
Killer Bee Software

And please spread the word ...

Perfect General is worth 'saving' (even though it runs on all halfway decent operating systems anyway), but Empire Deluxe? What for?

Edited by Mr Creosote at 13:39 on January, 03rd 2003

Grrr ... lets play a game and see who wins

Of Empire Deluxe? Big deal if you win since it is a lousy game I never play

Yep the first step to covering up losses is to downgrade the amout of 'damage' it does

In case you don't remember: I have already played against you and the outcome wasn't all that positive for you

It was positive, I now know that what you say isn't always to be believed. A valueble lesson. And it wasn't ED .

Empire Deluxe is almost the same as chess, so it tells everything

Sure, take the whimp approch, maybe when the new version is out, we can paly it online ...

If they port it to my Amiga, I'm up to it

Who knows linux is an option, but Amiga, I somehow doubt it

Why? If they can port Freeciv, why not Empire Deluxe?

Well he is trying to get the program up and running again. Then he will start on a new version that is will probably be more portable, I think.

But if it will include Amiga, I don't know.

Excuse my ignorance, but isn't the program 'running' already? I mean, I can just enter "empire" and it starts.....

Let me clarify

When he bought the rights to the game there were parts of the source code missing. Some code from Whith Wolf was missing also some pictures were not found.

Hench the game was not running when he recieved the source code. He now has a prototype running and is completing an alpha build.

BTW, he is adding a lot of new features that are intresting to say the least.

Hope you are not so ignorant anymore

Ok, that sounds logical. Thanks for clearing it up

Neat. It sounds like a few of these fan groups are trying to get their hands on the source code for older games, which I think is a great deal of hard work, but if they get it, it's all worth it.

Like what for example? Yes, I'm too lazy to study the whole website

(The Perfect General just made it to the top of my list of games to be added to TGOD )

Tuss: Just to make sure you didn't misunderstand me, he (Mark) is a fan of ED but he bought the copyrights not as a fan but as a company. He is going to release a new commersial versions of these products.

A lot of cheating bugs are going to be removed. Changable graphichs and sounds.

A lot of multiplayer options, IP connection so players can play against each other without messy connection support.

A city trigger: when a city is set to no production you can set a trigger level (ie 100%) and when it reaches the level, the city will popup its production dialog (my idea )

Empire Deluxe Internet Edition Feature list

Oh yes, I understand that, it is just nice that the companies are letting their code get bought (Wonder how much? ) than just letting it sit around guarding it fiercly for no particular reason.