#Original harpoon game upgrade#

While Matrix and AGSI are planning to ship a PC-only version of the new game, some early reports indicate that Mac users might be able to run the game using the Virtual PC emulator.ĪNW is a continuous time tactical wargame covering air, surface, and subsurface conflicts from 1980 to the near future.

#Original harpoon game upgrade#

Reportedly, Matrix will be offering an upgrade to existing users of Harpoon 3, even if the details are still not publicized. Published for the Mac (2001) and the PC (2002) by Advanced Gaming Systems Inc., H3 has now been picked up for distribution by Matrix Games and it is ready to sail again under the ANW name after a good refit, improvement, and upgrade. Known as Harpoon 3, this new iteration of the game had its roots in H2, but now free from the early technological constraints, it could properly implement all the features once wished for basically, to translate into a commercial PC the kind of sophisticated “CIC” simulator one could expect to find in the bowels of an AEGIS warship – or at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis.

The same area seen in Google Earth the comparison with the satellite image shows the accurate is portrayal of coastlines in the game.įast forward to the new century, where, if a machine has only 128MB RAM, it is “passé.” Along comes one of the original programmers, Jesse Spears, and his dream-project to revitalize Harpoon on the PC. The battle takes place in the Gulf of Guayaquil, near Pun á Island. A Naval Border War is a scenario depicting a clash between the navies of Peru and Ecuador navies in 1994.