Obscure/Classic DOS Game: Star Lords (Master of Orion 0), (1992, SimTex/Microprose)

The game that Steve Barcia worked into a masterpiece! Master of Orion is based on its prequel game Star Lords, often called Master of Orion 0 by fans. Star Lords was a prototype and never commercially released (its intro opens with "SimTex Software and Your Company present"). The crude but fully-playable prototype was made available as freeware in 2001, stripped of all documentation and copy protection, in anticipation of the launch of Master of Orion 3. Major differences between Star Lords and Master of Orion I include inferior graphics and interface, simpler trade and diplomacy, undirected research, a lack of safeguards to prevent players from building more factories than are usable and the use of transports rather than colony ships to colonize new planets. One feature of Star Lords that Master of Orion lacks is a table of relations between the computer-controlled races. This game is somewhat buggy as it's basically a playable tech demo, but it still has most of the addictive qualities of Moo 1 (and most of the races, though named more crudely).

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[gukonni]

Another thing... I'd recommend starting on easy difficulty. You can download it for free by googling. It's not hard to play it. In fact, it's very simple. It's just unpolished and .... difficult to use.

[gukonni]

Of course you'll need DosBox for it.

[gukonni]

Have been playing this off and on for several days. It's getting fun. Only problem is I have no manual for it. Can't remove ship designs. I played Moo 1 but that was a long time ago. Somehow lost the cd for that one but I still have the Moo 2 cd. Star Lords is much better than I thought at first. I like how you can transport colonists rather than having to use colony ships. It's a very inaccessible version of Moo 1/2/3, but it still has many of the same features as they do. Worth trying.

[jaylinsa]

@HardWarUK classic gaming dot net has it

[HardWarUK]

Have this game on floppy desperately need the manual - anyone got it or know where to download it?

[HardWarUK]

Why no gameplay?!!!! Grrrrrr!!!!!

[T0mFrame]

Man this is old! Cool!

[HardWarUK]

Hey! I have a Microprose game called Starlord!!!