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Dosbox! http://www.dosbox.com/ Or get a DOSbootdisk. Seriously, it\'s among some of the better dos games out there.

Soviets needed consolidation and more funding. Work was duplicated among several design bureaus.

Awesome space exploration game, hinging on alternate physics. http://anynowhere.com/bb/layout/html/doors/local/frameset_noctis.html

But how much fuel is consumed by moving to a different altitude?

Sounds more like Red Dawn.

http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/161/161805p1.html http://uk.media.pc.ign.com/media/011/011805/imgs_1.html http://www.gamesover.com/walkthroughs/apollo18.txt Ultrarealistic.

Well.... Race into space is open source.

http://www.raceintospace.org/ Interesting game. Basically you get to play as the US or the Soviets during the space race. Sadly cheat engine only works for editing US money, not soviet money, so Soviet victories are even more difficult.

Don't you mean keeps the craft at it's current angle?

... Yes?

Rolls are made to see who gets lucky and launches first.

Second year of life?

I'll process the turn in a couple of days. Maybe more people would join. Thank you for expressing your ever important opinion. I do not know how I can run this game without your input.

Maybe you could eventually implement a tracking system to count how many computers are using the game?

Orbits aren't totally circular. As an object orbits away from another object, the orbit's speed decreases. Basically you are trading speed for altitude. It will reverse once altitude decreases.