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Now if I can just get my hands on an ST and that game... Good luck eh?

Nope, but it seems my prayers have been answered. Through a contorted twisted google search, I found a screen shot and immediately screamed in utter grief / agony / glee (that it took me so long to find) Star Fleet I is the game I have been trying to find all these years. The screen shot showing the title screen on Moby Games is EXACTLY what I was thinking of. Thanks for attempting to help! I can die a happy man now! LOL Game Screenshot, including the shield quads in the upper right (hey, I was 11 when I played it...LOL ) http://amigareviews.classicgaming.gamespy....tarfleet1-a.gif The Splash screen at the start of the game: http://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-st/sta...meShotId,62462/

It was not 3D. It was a top-down view 2D game from what I recall. It was similar to the Star Trek games of the time. I can't believe this game is so hard to find / figure out. It's been driving me nuts for 5+ years!

I apologize, my last post on this forum was a bit on the harsh side... but I'm still aching to find this game, and I won't die happy until I do! LOL I pulled from memory what the game looked like, and I've got a rough sketch of what it did look like, namely the shield interface on the right side of the screen. It looked a little bit like this: The little dots inside of the shield representations would fade intensity as your shields would lower, and then the oval on that side of the ship would disappear altogether. The top left of the game was I believe the sectors, and the top right was quadrants. That's all I can remember. I was 10 or so when I played the game. PLEASE if anyone has any clue, I'd appreciate the help.

Ok... I'm starting to think that this wasn't an ST title. Does anyone know of a game that matches my description on another Atari based computer system? It was NOT the kind that hooks into a TV...

Nope. Neither one of those. Maybe if I can reach into my brain and find an old image stored in my neurons somewhere I can tell you what it was like... I distinctly remember the shielding system however. It looked like 4 giant ships surrounding one in the middle... and they would dim if your shields got hit... and you could route power, and shuffle commands through a type (text) interface, but the game was graphical.

Which ones are there for the Atari systems? ST, TT, 2xxx and so on? I'm trying to find a game - hopefully one that I can play on Steem... I have a post in the Classic Gaming forum too, just trying to find info out. Thanks.

Ok, I THOUGHT I knew which system the game was on (an ST) and I THOUGHT I knew what the game started with (the name began or had a "U" in it). Both have led me to nothing... and it's been ages since I have been able to get any leads. I need help finding the platform type, and the game name that I once played endless hours of... while my friends were playing things like the old Commodore 64, I was playing the "new" game on their Atari computer system (and it was an actual computer, not a gaming system). The game was a space sim game, very akin to those Star Trek simulators... I remember it having variable control over the four shields, front, back left and right... and it had the quadrant and sector readouts, and you could toggle between condition red, yellow and green. Back then as a kid it was " all that " and I want to see if I still have interest... but I cannot find the game name anywhere! Does anyone have a clue as to what I'm blathering on about? I can't even find out from the people who owned the system (long since gotten rid of). I would deeply appreciate anyone who has any ideas. I use Steem for Dungeon Master , Sundog and a few others... hopefully I can use it for this space sim game (which also by the way pissed me off when I died because it would do that "Chckck" noise at the end and exclaim "Your ship is a flaming hulk!" at the end. I'm nearing desperatism here...

did you not see that I was NOT asking about Sundog? It was a very different kind of game. If I could describe it better I would, but I can't. It had an intuitive menu, it had shields to raise, condition status to change, etc. Someone on this forum posted about it once before, but for the love of me, I can't think of it. It was almost like a space RPG, and it involved mainly fighting races similar to the klingons and such in Star Trek. There were cloaked ships, and the navigation was similar to quadrants and sectors. I remember the layout vividly in my mind, but I can't for the life of me find the bloody game. I hate not having it, because it would make my decade... it means that much to finding it.

Nope. It was a space combat type game. I really don't know what genre to fit it into, and it's driving me nuts. the game uses quadrants and sectors for navigation, and you get to manage ship shields among other things. I used to rock at the game. I remember one thing very clearly - when you died, the game gave you the end message of "Your ship is a flaming hulk" and I always thought how demeaning that was. Would LOVE to find this game again.

Ok, is anyone here familiar with Sundog? Good. I'm not asking about it. I'm trying to find that other game that was played on the ST computer system, it was a space combat simulation system. It used the old grid/quadrants designations and such. I'm running the Steem emulator (latest version, and the one before that archived on my HDD) If you have ANY idea which one I'm talking about... I would appreciate it. I have no clue what the name of it was. I'd know if I saw it however. Thanks.

Indeed he did. Thanks a million Al, Dungeon Master and Sun Dog are exactly as I remember them (albeit a bit small - lol - I'm working on that) Took me a little fumbling around to figure it all out, but I've never used an emulator or anything like this before, so I'm actually pretty proud of meself. I've been playing Neverwinter Nights on my system, but the gameplay reminded me so much of DM, that I wanted to go back - and I just did. This site rules...

I just got an Email reply back from Albert Yarusso, Thank God for him, becuase I've been looking for this information for years now (kind of passively, didn't really heat up until recently). I'm a very picky gamer, and even now I can't find stuff to play on my Athlon/GeForce4, so I'm going to go back to my roots. I need some help finding (if at all possible) an Emulator of some sort for one of the ST Computer Systems. I played Sun Dog, Joust (eeww), Dungeon Master and Al thinks the other one I played was Omnitrends Universe. If anyone has any ideas on this, please let me know. I have the phpbb set to Email me when you reply, so just reply here and I'll be here in a jiffy. MUCH appreciated! I'm ecstatic to find a decent resource finally. --Ben