{"id":895,"date":"2008-03-17T20:09:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T00:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/03\/17\/shrapnel-reassures-on-82nd-airborne\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T20:09:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T00:09:10","slug":"shrapnel-reassures-on-82nd-airborne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/03\/17\/shrapnel-reassures-on-82nd-airborne\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrapnel Reassures on 82nd Airborne"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember 82nd Airborne<\/em>? No? You’re probably not the only one. The wargame has been in development for years, with barely a peep from anyone connected to the project. Shrapnel Games was formed specifically to deliver 82 Airborne, a sequel to Empire Interactive’s 101st Airborne<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Well, Shrapnel’s Timothy Brooks promises<\/a> that it is still being worked on and that it will be completed once they work some bugs out<\/p>\n

Microsoft’s Vista, that oh-so wonderful operating system of theirs, has a rather annoying habit of breaking things in All American: The 82nd Airborne in Normandy. Like network play on previous OSes. And there are other issues with Vista. So thanks to this crap OS we had several choices:<\/p>\n

1. Strip All American: The 82nd Airborne in Normandy of the features that didn’t work with Vista, or had problems under Vista.<\/p>\n

2. Not make it Vista compatible. Tempting, very tempting.<\/p>\n

3. Recode the whole thing for DOS, since folks will probably have better luck running it under DOSBox in Vista than if it was Vista compatible.<\/p>\n

Stripping features is not an option. Not making it Vista compatible would solve a lot of headaches but look, after all these years in development we’re not going to then shut out part of the market. And obviously the DOS thing is a joke. Doing it in Flash would be much better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, no release date. But progress of a fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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