USS Ticonderoga

I've had this sim for about 7 years now. It's an older game, sure, but if you're used to playing Harpoon, you'll get into this too. It's more than Harpoon, however, in that you get to walk around some of the ship (Think Myst style 90's game- no smooth movements, you click and you are a few steps forward), and you get to talk to your XO to issue orders, you can walk around the CIC and watch screens and issue orders from there. And your XO responds negatively or positively to how well your orders correspond to the Admiral's orders which you receive at the beginning of each scenario. As the Tico class are outfitted in real life as command ships, you are frequently in command of other vessels as well. You must be politically minded too, as in real life. You can't just blow the Iranian Navy into Davey Jones' locker.The graphics are a little dated (won't stand up to recent Silent Hunter or Dangerous Waters) but still it's fun. Don't have time for a 3 hour surface encounter? There's a time control on the bottom of the screen to move things up a little faster, and drops to 2x speed when missiles, torpedoes or cannon fire gets out.Moreover, it runs fine on my WinXP + updates system. Just press "Y" on the startup. Also: the only quirk with it is that it must be run from the "D" drive.If you like Harpoon, but want a little more, then I highly recommend Ticonderoga: Life and Death On the High Seas.

cool. hard to run at first due to it being a dos game but fun once u get it started

My title says it all.I am running Windows XP with all service packs. AMD Athlon 64X2,4 GB Ram 2 hard drives, tons of free space.