Misc Updates

[Gobalopper]

I don't normally visit the German version of the official site but I accidently clicked the link. Turns out that Thilo, he is one of the moderators at the official forum, has been posting some news not mentioned at the English site. The latest being that Chris Longpre, Emperor's producer, turned 33 on Tuesday. Not sure how many of you are interested in that but I thought I would mention it anyhow, nice picture of Chris posted there as well :)

I also found two new mp3 files that were posted back at the beginning of March. They are just portions of the entire track but I thought you might want to check them out anyhow. Check out [ftp=ftp://ftp.germany.ea.com/DOWNLOADS/JAN/dark_alliance.mp3]Dark Alliance[/ftp] and [ftp=ftp://ftp.germany.ea.com/DOWNLOADS/JAN/defenders_of_arrakis.mp3]Defenders of Arrakis[/ftp], which are about 1MB in size.

Also, I found an interesting site that is creating a "Dune Emulator" based on Avalon Hills Dune board game. I haven't had a chance to try it out yet but it looks pretty cool. Below is a description from their site:

The DUNE Emulator is an implementation of the Avalon Hill classic board game 'Dune' for the PC. This is a labour of love undertaken primarily as a means of learning the Allegro game programming library. See Allegro Homepage for details of this superb *free* package. Thus, it is Freeware - you may copy and distribute it freely provided you do not make any profit. However, it is requested that you actually own a copy of the Board game to use the Dune Emulator to avoid copyright infringement.

In its present form it is possible to play a limited version of the game. The player has to take control of all six factions, only the basic rules have been implemented and of these rules, several key components are missing.

And to round out this update here is Delphi talking about the Sand Storms on the official forum:

They will have a real impact on structures and units. The best part is watching an infantry unit get sucked up and thrown around...