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computer gaming world May 1998

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Hi Everyone,

I was talking to cleverwise and he told me about this article.

If you read it closely it explains some of the unused code we have found, like trading commodities (food, intel ect)

From the look of the images it was originally to be 600 x 480 (glad they went 800 x 600)

look at some of those early prototype srceenshots glad they did a lot more work on GUI.

Also original release date of 4th quarter 1998, it was 6 months late and still rushed.....

here is the 2 page article.
page 1
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page 2
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happy reading

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nice find, TC!
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wow, interesting article!
orders: scan and task force mission screen, that's some great ideas
thanks for sharing :D

edit: here is full paper download:
http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/inde ... b=2&id=166
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Very cool! Thanks for posting the article, chief (and to Flocke for the download link). :)
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Always nice to look at a bit of BotF history. :)
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Flocke wrote:wow, interesting article!
orders: scan and task force mission screen, that's some great ideas
thanks for sharing :D

edit: here is full paper download:
http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/inde ... b=2&id=166
Thanks for the link Floke; can we have this as a sticky topic? Maybe in General Chat.
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