With 2025 looming closer....

[strykerpsg]

Fastboat, Pat,

Wow! Fantastic explanation, thank you for that. I was just inquiring if plans were being made or at least a roadmap for the future. Without doubt, this team of developers, modders and players have kept this franchise alive for decades. That just showcases the love and devotion for the game.

Of course, everyone needs a break and I nor any other decent person would expect anything less, given the yearly updates. I too have served (thank you to yourself and others that have too)) and love picking through the new OBATs, looking for discrepancies and updates with my professional exposure and love for all things military hardware.

Dumb question but I gotta ask, are Andy and Don the developers of all the titles under Shrapnel or just the dynamic duo that brought WINSPMBT and WINWW2 to light initially? This title will forever stay in my library, until there comes a time when it is no longer compatible. Then I will just find some sort of DOS box to play it afterwards.

Repsectfully,
Matt

[FASTBOAT TOUGH]

I'm sure those are the only games they're involved with on the developer side. These games are descendants to the original Steel Panthers (SP) from SSI in 1995. SSI would further develop SP II in 1996.
The final full game SSI produced was SP III in 1997. There was an SSI SP IV under development but I believe this ended with the demise of SSI. This I think was the base for our games or an adjunct to it from the previous versions. This would cause a split from what would become Camo Workshop and MATRIX games. Corrected only the words per my U.S. dictionary ...

The title caught my attention from a MATRIX forum on the "succession" of the games. I quote from "Alby" in Nov. 2006 ...

"Actually, SPWAW seems to run better on older systems.
SPWAW was derived from the SP3 source code
SPWW2 and SPMBT came from the SP2 source code.
SPWAW, WW2, and MBT are similar but do have many differences.
Once a long time ago in a galaxy far far away...there was a split and there were then 2 factions. The camo group with WW2 and MBT and Matrix with SPWAW.
...too long a story to go into but many hard feelings remain, and many heated discussions have arisen and still do from time to time, over which games is/are better."

I owned the first two versions, and it should be obvious that I chose the path of righteousness you see you have to understand with our limited internet capability at the time, there was also a split in the gaming community we also took sides as we missed SSI and didn't like the direction MATRIX was going at the time with the games.

I would "stumble" upon our games and they intrigued me. They were more familiar me from my SSI games and thus made me more comfortable. And I blame Don, John, Suhiir (My Marine Buddy. And I miss her as my "foil" and more.) and Andy for what they did to me!?!

DOS nothing, if you have Windows or a couple of other OS's you'll be fine in the long run.

Regards,
Pat

[FASTBOAT TOUGH]

I had to "fact check" my memory and realized I demoted the Oscar winning actor Jimmy Stewart to Lt. Col. when he actually was promoted to Brig. Gen. in 1959 well before retiring from the service.
https://ancestralfindings.com/the-mi...jimmy-stewart/

Had to set the record straight.

Regards,
Pat