I have a soft spot for Shrapnel as a publisher - not so much because they're really nice people (I don't know) but because they publish niche games that you're just not going to see anywhere else. Yes, Lands of Legends looks like a C64 game but it might be just what a few thousand people with 10 year old computers have been looking for, possibly since emerging from a sleeping sickness induced coma. The main reason I have a soft spot for Shrapnel is that they sold me Space Empires IV, though they now seem to have had their link cut with Malfador, or perhaps vice versa. (for the record - an English wargames specialist shop sold me Space Empires and it was one of the most expensive games I've ever bought, about 50 quid I think. Best value ever though.)

In fact I cranked up my copy of Stars! last weekend and had a couple of hours of fun with that and it runs like a spreadsheet. (I don't have a disk drive so I had to get the install off the Underdogs though I still seemed to need my serial number.)

Its so special it rides the short bus.

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music from space captain:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/6/errantways_music.htm
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/4/invisibleacropolis_music.htm

Looks pretty special.