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Monday, July 29, 2002

BattleTech for PCs -- 3:13 pm CST, Update by The Master

I've been monitoring a couple of projects that are attempting to bring the BattleTech tabletop game to the PC. This has been tried before, and all the projects that were done in the past have fallen to the wayside. These new ones look very promising, and one of them is open source. Check them out:

MegaMek is a Java-based version of the game, was tested under Win32 and MacOS, and looks VERY pretty. This one is open-source, so if you know Java and BT, give'em a hand!
MechWar3025 is a DOS-based BT game system, includes support for a pile of different units, and looks quite nice as well. There is a Win32 version, but he isn't keeping it up to date, so those of us who use Win2K, NT and Linux are up the creek.

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