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Oh well, to my knowledge both of these points have been pretty much debunked after the war had ended. 1. The Germans were hopelessly behind in the development of the abomb, and they didn't really pursue the issue very strongly or intelligently. They were lacking several basics, both in terms...

What happend to the image of California being one of the most tolerant states in the US?

Reminds me of Counter-Strike "back in the day"... I believe this to be something like Sturgeon's Law applied to people. If an online game is very popular, particular with a certain demographic (adolescent boys), it's only natural it attracts a lot of "bullies" (or whatever you want to call...

Sorry, my mistake. This is what I meant, but I didn't put it as clearly. Of course, even for educational use, there are limits.

I don't see that. He says there is fair use and then he uses the word "furthermore" and continues about expiring of copyright. I don't see him claiming the two things are in any way connected.

Copyright law, for example? Sure it varies from nation to nation, but you in the USA seem have some pretty clearly defined criteria on what constitutes "fair use". Other countries have similar rules, we here in Germany don't have "fair use" like in America, but we have some similar rules, that...

I think this whole WWII thing is going to far. Sure, Wing Commander was inspired by WWII (especially the pacific theatre). It was also inspired by the movie Top Gun. But claiming it's "WWII in space", with the implication that everything, like every fighter model, has to have their counterpart...

That's strange, I was positive it already was in the news, but looking in the archive it's not there. Maybe I've shifted from one parallel universe to the other again... :D

How come this appears in the news again?

Many emulators, especially of the simpler consoles, don't need bios roms. Obviously, the 2600 emulator doesn't. If you think of pure game consoles, I'd say most of the emulators do NOT need bios roms. However, if you think of classic computers, then you may be right, most of them need them.

Yesterday I tried the Sim Mission "Convoy Strike" on difficulty level 3, flying a Morningstar. I managed to accumulate 2680 points, but then I got destroyed. I always thought, with the exception of missions 1 and 2, your score won't get submitted if you don't survive the mission. Yet...

What I wanted to say or ask is, what reason do we have to believe, that the "Behemoth-class dreadnoughts" that are mentioned do look like The Behemoth from Wing Commander III. It could be possible it's a different ship class, which only by chance is called Behemoth class. Or is the big gun...

I gather from that statement it must have been a throwaway side remark somewhere. It really could be anything, maybe the Behemoth design has been completely overhauled to something like a carrier? Maybe it doesn't have the BFG anymore... Also, there's the possibility they only share the name...

The question why I ask is, what use is the/a Behemoth against the Nephilim, when the Nephilim have no use for planets?

Did the Nephilim conquer any planets?

Well I don't know about companies giving them "flak", but I do now that the Atari community pretty much doesn't care, or rather they value preservation above copyright issues. There is a huge archive online (which many of you propably already know, but I don't know if I am allowed to post the...

It has nothing to do with WWII comparison, but I had a thought about the Epee as well. If you think of the Gratha and/or Hhriss as Kilrathi fighters kinda imitating Confed design, with the Epee it is more like the other way around: That's the closest fighter design Confed every got to Kilrathi...

Slightly related, how did the Standoff programmers get the AI code for the different fighters in, that couldn't have been easy... Or maybe it was, depending on how it was done in Secret Ops. If they would all try to fly the same regardless of their fighter we probably would have an AI that's...

I believe it was Dunradal, but I may also have misunderstood him. As far as I recall, in Prophecy the difficulty changed things like the number of enemy fighters in the mission, and obviously Standoff doesn't do that. But then again, that may have been a change between Prophecy and Secret Ops...

Well that's not what I've been told: Unlike in Secret Ops and Prophecy, in Standoff the difficulty level only affects the AI, not the ship or weapons stats, the numbers of enemies or so on. Maybe one of the "insiders" could clear it up?