The good news for those of you who would like to see me start another X-COM thread is that with DosBox, X-COM works pretty well in Vista. I need to do a bit of tweaking to the config files, but it works. The bad news is that in my first refresher mission (not a game I planned on keeping for the thread...

If all goes according to plan, I hope to be testing X-COM in Vista tonight.

It sounds like 2K Games holds the licenses now. Makes me glad Take Two did not end up being bought out by EA. It would make me sad to have to associate X-COM with EA. Microprose was the original publisher, by the way. As far as a market for it, it certainly would not be able to be a big-budget game....

The one thing that would make me consider paying for it yet again is the possibility that a new X-COM game could be made if the ones on Steam sell well enough. But I'm not holding my breath for that. If I hear that could happen, though, I'll buy it.

The one on Steam, yes. Though from what I understand, it's just running the game in DosBox, so I may just get that so I don't have to pay for a game that I already have bought three or four times by now.

The first one is supposed to. But not the sequel. But that's all right because the sequel is ridiculously hard, so I'm okay with not being able to play the second one.