dafoomie
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I can't for the life of me remember the name of this game, I downloaded it on AOL at some point between 95 and 97 on an LC III running System 7. Graphics and sound were pretty nice for shareware in its day, had to have supported at least 256 colors.
The main screen and some aspects are reminiscent of Psi-5 Trading Company for the C64 in that the ship/space area only appeared on the portion of the screen while the rest was used for managing the crew. Unlike Psi-5, you'd fly the ship yourself, top down 2d style like Asteroids or Sinistar. You'd select a crew, who would have a rating listed at their position, and could hire better crew members at various bases. You'd order them to perform certain tasks, the engineer would repair things, the doctor would heal injured crew members, etc. If they were killed, another person could be assigned, but they might be so bad at that skill that they'd make things worse.
From what I remember of the story, an enemy was going around attacking friendly planets and it was your task to stop them. I remember beating the first enemy by getting behind a planet and using my weapons to hit him while his kept hitting the planet, but that's as far as I got.
Any ideas? Or is it way too obscure?
The main screen and some aspects are reminiscent of Psi-5 Trading Company for the C64 in that the ship/space area only appeared on the portion of the screen while the rest was used for managing the crew. Unlike Psi-5, you'd fly the ship yourself, top down 2d style like Asteroids or Sinistar. You'd select a crew, who would have a rating listed at their position, and could hire better crew members at various bases. You'd order them to perform certain tasks, the engineer would repair things, the doctor would heal injured crew members, etc. If they were killed, another person could be assigned, but they might be so bad at that skill that they'd make things worse.
From what I remember of the story, an enemy was going around attacking friendly planets and it was your task to stop them. I remember beating the first enemy by getting behind a planet and using my weapons to hit him while his kept hitting the planet, but that's as far as I got.
Any ideas? Or is it way too obscure?
