Reply 20 of 23, by BaronSFel001
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You may ignore if this is discussion specifically geared towards Windows 95. That being said, MicroProse is unrepresented on the list when it comes to their 16-bit Windows entries. Sid Meier's Civilization got hoopla (including an updated box) for its Windows port, as did Sid Meier's Colonization which was among the relatively-few MicroProse games of the time to be enhanced for its CD-ROM release (CD audio in this case). Both boasted higher resolutions, definitive digitized audio clips (in the form of WAV files), and ought to be playable on a modern system via OTVDM. The dirty secret about both: they were not ports from the original DOS version directly, but are the Macintosh versions brought over to Windows. It may be worth noting that this does not include Fleet Defender or 1942: The Pacific Air War as both Gold editions came on CD with Windows-native multimedia content but the simulations themselves were still DOS-only.
It is questionable whether Holodream's Nebula Fighter even belongs on the list: its only DOS variant was the first shareware release; all full versions are strictly 32-bit Windows.
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