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Old January 16th, 2004, 02:54 AM
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Default Re: Unit abstraction?

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Originally posted by CarlG2:
Hey Arralen,

I played the heck out of Harpoon years ago, ...
Since then I've been dreaming of Harpoon 4 and its ever changing release date...which now seems to be hanging out in the abyss somewhere.
It's dead. At least until the source code is released to the folks which did H3/H2002 ...

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Did you ever play the Simulations Canada games Northern Fleet or Red Sky at Morning?
Don't think they where ever available in Europe.
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Back to Harpoon 3...from your link it sounds like they took Harpoon 2 and updated it for Windows, fixed bugs, updated units, etc. Is that a good assessment? How does the interface hold up to modern standards, and is it pretty stable?
Yes.
Yes.
The interface didn't change at all - check out the screenshots.
It's really stable, and the code actually got faster when it was ported to Win32, despited a lot of goodies where added in / activated.
In fact, they got even the multiplayer part, that was in it since the beginning but never used, to work - they needed it for the military Version. These changes are "rolled back" into the normal Version.

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