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Stars! - An old Aurora like game

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hephep:
I'm still new to Aurora, but it seems to be to be quite similar to a very old Windows game - Stars! https://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Stars! from 1995.  The interface is similar being "Windows default" and "spreadsheet in space" :-).  I suspect folks who like Aurora may like it.

It has aged extremely well due to the nature of the graphics (there are almost none!).



There's a website with a bunch of resources online here, including where to get it for free and how to run it on a 64bit OS (it's a 16bit game so won't run by default).
https://wiki. starsautohost. org/wiki/Stars_vs_OS#DOSBox

cool_hc:
Hi
I used to love Stars! years ago, and still have it via Dosbox. 
However, IMHO, Stars is quite a different game. 
Aurora4x is primarily a single player 4x game, with emphasis on the whole exploring, logistics in addition to the combat.
Stars! is actually more of a multiplayer PBEM military turnbased strategy wargame.  All aspects of the game (exploring, terraforming, colonising) has to do with making your war economy stronger in the most efficient time, to eventually kill off all the other players and be the last one standing.   There is a single player option, but the AI is pretty limited.  Pity there's hardly any Stars! players anymore.  The game is simple to play, but has enormous depth & complexity.

Nonetheless, Stars! was a fantastic game, and 20+ years on, there still isn't anything close to the briliance that Stars! had.  VGA planets tried to copy it, but its just not as good. 
The only game i've come across that has that similar PBEM wargame with high depth is the Dominions series, albeit with a fantasy setting.

Castinar:
I loved Stars! as well --- in fact, I just found my S/N for the game (I had purchased 5 S/Ns so I could play with friends...but only have found one of them).  Sadly, w/o some work I can't run it on modern machines (and don't feel like going back to it anyways w/ so many other games to play :P)

Steve Walmsley:
I used to play Stars a lot and I still have the game. It was once of the early influences on Aurora.

spartacus:
Stars was a great game and I was really looking forward to Supernova Genesis, it was a real bummer the way it played out ending in a cancelled release.

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