space trade games?

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weirdculture

Spaceman
Hi all,

unfuertionally i work at the moment far away from my home, and live in hotels, well what is better then enjoy some flying at the evening after work. well my laptop is a little bit older.. a 266 with w2k on it.

First I tried the Privateer Remake and Gemini Gold.. well.. 3d is not supported by my old 2MB graphiccard which in the laptop.. so i had a wonderfull "screenshoot" demonstraion :(

So I've tried Privateer2 and the w2k patch.. and.. well.. priv2 is a nice space shooting game but the possibilty of trading are weak in this game. To less space stations. no asterois etc...

I've tried dosbox 0.61 and privateer.... ough.. the ramake woked better then the original. It needed about 7 minutes to start. and it was a shreenshot show to :(

i was wondering that there are so less space trading and combat games there.. i feel that elite (and his sequeels),wc-privateer (and his sequeels), and X-beyxond the frontier (and his sequeels) are the olny one game-series which you are able to trade in the space.

now 2 questions;

first: is there any other possibililty to run Privateer under windows? (i'm afraid that not)
second: are there any other space-trading games which runs on a PII-266?

cheers Weird Culture
 
If you can find the DOS drivers for your hardware, you may consider dedicating a perhaps 200MB FAT partition, using a DOS bootdisk and installing Privateer there.

Privateer will certainly run fine natively on that machine.

Othat than that, you might try VirtualPC, since it does not emulate like DOSBox does. You will still need to find the DOS drivers for your hardware, however, but then you can have a DOS environment within Windows and not have to repartition your hard drive.
 
I don't have a clue about win2K but the original privateer ran beautifully in win98 using the myjemm patch on a 486 at 133mhz.
 
You can find MyJemm info at https://www.wcnews.com/news/update/5011 It doesn't work with Windows 2000. The original Privateer runs beautifully in 2000 or XP in DOSBox, but you need 1-1.5 GHz to do it. A 266 MHz laptop running Win2K is about the least WC-friendly computer there is. You can buy a new computer that could run all Wing Commander games for the price of a few nights' hotel stays. You should ask your employer about that.

I actually think Privateer 2 has much better trading options than the original. I could never have any fun hauling cargo in Privateer 1, but it's definitely a viable way of making a living in P2. There's lots of interesting multi-point routes and you can hire cargo ships to increase your load. P1's a more fun game overall.. but P2's one of the best space trading games out there.
 
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I play privateer 2 right now for the first time and I love the trading system. As soon as you can afford to hire a monolith (which is better than any wingman) and have the money to load it fully, you can earn a lot of money with trading. beer and food from Bex to Anhur, industrial and hardware fom Hermes to Anhur, ore from anhur to anywhere and medical from crius to janus or hermes (just to name some good routes) in no time i was from zero to 100. I one really good ship (not the best but well equiped)... really like it. Plus trading in Priv 2 is like defend mission, which is really fun. It's not like in privateer where you have to ride a cow like a galaxy or orion and can do nothing but to hope to survive... just my opinion.. really like it ;)
 
Bob McDob said:
Pretty much every space game nowadays includes some form of trading.
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Yeah, it's a really sad state of affairs.

(not that I don't like space trading games - I just don't like the way all space games are trading games)
 
That's just how space works in 2005. When a Soyuz crew docks with the ISS, they sell a load of food and oxygen and then use the space money to upgrade their engines and lasers...
 
What about Hardwar? Not a space sim by the exact definition (you are on the surface of a planet), but a quite good and complex privateerish game that might run on 266 Mhz. Lemme check - jup 166 Mhz and up.
 
Hmmm, if Hardwar will run on your system it's definitely a *great* trading game, even though it's not really in space (but hey, it's still flying and shooting stuff).

It's certainly a lot more fun than the X series, in that it doesn't sacrifice every single fun thing about its gameplay in favor of the trading aspect. Hardwar manages to be a great trading game *and* a fun game about flying ships that shoot each other.
 
Smugglers 3:
Heh. Looks very "creative" in ship design.....
http://www.nbsd.de/images/S3ExpScreenshot1.jpg

So, I was just milling through this thread in hope that I read something new, but no luck. The X series are pretty darn boreing, and tradeing and shooting around is totally pointless and sensless, not enjoyable... Ok, ok, I gotta agree that I haven't tried X3 yet, maybe it will be better. Lets hope.
Hardwar is a really great game, and should be very very cheap, as its old. Don't bother with the ripped version at the "u-dogs" thouh, it's not worth it as its missing the storyline mostly, with no cutscenes, no music...
 
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