2007.172 (June 21, 2007)

BREAKING NEWS: More Wing Commander on GameTap

This is, by a wide margin, the least likely thing that has ever happened: the GameTap service is planning to add Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom to their extensive inventory of classic games available for legal download and play! I posted to their forum asking about the status of the previously announced Privateer release... there's no word on that yet, but their moderator provided some exciting news:

I did just get confirmation that Wing Commander IV will be coming soon to Gametap, so hopefully that will be some consolation to the Privateer limbo.

GameTap recently brought Wing Commander I to their service, allowing modern gamers to play it alongside nearly a thousand other retail titles for a low monthly fee. The addition of Wing Commander IV, a surprisingly large game even by today's standards, will be quite a coup. Are you ready to go back to the Border Worlds? I sure am!

Purple Privateer Pictures Posted

Here's another look at a new interface in Privateer Ascii Sector. The commodity exchange and sector economy took less time to create than Chris Knudsen anticipated, so a few pictures are already available. Each item available for purchase has a local price and a general market price that can be used to help determine the best buys. Costs associated with the goods in your ship's hold are also tracked to calculate potential profit if sold at the current location. A few neat graphs even track values such as these over time. The last screenshot below is from a later build and has been slightly reworked to features a few streamlined improvements.