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More Stuff About War Games

From the New York Times:

"'Ender's Game' has had a lot of influence on our thinking," said Michael Macedonia, director of the Army's simulation technology center in Orlando, Fla., which plans to build a virtual Afghanistan that could host hundreds of thousands of networked computers. "The intent is to build a simulation that allows people to play in that world for months or years, participate in different types of roles and see consequences of their decisions."

The military has already licensed There's technology for testing in virtual worlds.

DOSBoxxing MoM

Upgrading your PC can be a perilous thing. While a PC can ostensibly play most computer games made in the history of this world, often a new version of Windows will no longer run old DOS games. A those early works you might want to study inaccessible!

Case in point: the classic Civilization-clone that one-upped Civ itself, Master of Magic. A UK developer called SimTex replaced "culture" and "technology" with "mana" and "spell-research," and "the huns" with "lizardmen" and ended up with an excellent ten year old strategy game that people are still trying to make run in Windows XP.

Well, they won't have to try any more - the next generation of pre-1993 DOS emulation has arrived. After some starts like VDMSound, finally DOSBox has solved pernitious extended memory problems to run Master of Magic (with sound!) after just a little bit of command-prompt tweaking. Now I'm trying to configure DOSBox to keep my MoM saved games.

I Need Some Advice

I found a store that sells refurbished GBA's for $50.00. I can even get a fushia one!