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First post, by rfnagel

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OK, this is driving me nutz...

I remember reading here at VOGONS about an old DOS game that had native MT-32 support for it's music and sound effects. The game may (or may not) have been at some point in time released as freeware.

I remember when I was experimenting with MUNT and the game, that the game kind of looked 'Wing "Commander-ish" 1' to me (although not quite as fancy)... I seem to remember that you flew a spacecraft around shooting things from a cockpit view of the spacecraft.

Any ideas as to what I'm thinking of?

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Reply 1 of 8, by Mau1wurf1977

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Hmm any more details you can remember? Was there an intro? Was the graphics real 3D with polygons or pseudo 3D like Wing Commander.

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Reply 2 of 8, by rfnagel

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Hmm any more details you can remember? Was there an intro? Was the graphics real 3D with polygons or pseudo 3D like Wing Commander.

Hmmm.... I don't really remember, but it might have been pseudo 3D.

Crazy thought, the game's title MIGHT have started with a letter "M". But, after looking at lists of games that had native MT-32 support, none of them rang a bell.

I'm kind of thinking that the game MIGHT have been retail, and then released as freeware at some point in time... but I don't really remember. Seems that when I was twiddling with it previously (with MUNT), I seem to remember that it was the full version.

I kind of remember that the game was fairly impressive, as far as what it could do with the MT-32; and that it was definitely an FPS space-shooter of sorts.

P.S. I dont' think that the game had any intro of sorts.

P.P.S. From waht I remember, the game was mentioned here at VOGONS not too long ago... seems that I was playing around with it maybe towards the beginning of the year (?).

...and another P.P.P.S. I also recall downloading the game directly from the author's web site (I THINK <aarrggh>).

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Reply 3 of 8, by VileR

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Cybercon III ? http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/cybercon-iii
Darker ? http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/darker
Epic ? http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/epic
Inferno ? http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/inferno
Pyrotechnica ? http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/pyrotechnica
Star Rangers ? http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/star-rangers
XF5700 Mantis Experimental Fighter ? http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/xf5700-mant … imental-fighter

or something else from this list? http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/dos/tic … -fi-futuristic/

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Reply 4 of 8, by rfnagel

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Nope, it wasn't any of those (I even browsed through all of the games and screenshots from your link here -> http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/dos/tic … -fi-futuristic/ .

BTW, the game "Darker" looks a bit too fancy (graphics-wise), and "Cybercon III" looks to crude.

Man, this is driving me nutz.

Another thing that I remember is that the in-game cockpit also had a radar of sorts.

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Reply 5 of 8, by rfnagel

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After a MASSIVE amount of brain cell burning (and a LOT of Googling):

LINE WARS II!!!!!

http://www.mobygames.com/game/linewars-2
http://linewars.patrickaalto.com/
http://www.terrybutler.co.uk/misc/linewars-ii/
http://www.pixelships.com/adg/ep0034.html

<UUGGHH> 🤣!

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Reply 6 of 8, by VileR

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Heh, I considered LineWars II, but your description made me think you were looking for something a lot fancier-looking for some reason. :)

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Reply 7 of 8, by rfnagel

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Hehe, and the $h#er of it is? I still have the ZIP on my hard drive when I was playing with it before... I just couldn't find it 🤣 (until now)!

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Reply 8 of 8, by Mau1wurf1977

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Awww Line Wars. More like Elite 😀

I remember playing on a LAN at school.

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