By Sam Lantinga You pilot your ship through the dreaded 'Maelstrom' asteroid belt-suddenly your best friend thrusts towards you and fires, directly at your cockpit. You raise your shields just in.
A downloadable game for Windows
Welcome me Hearties to Gentlemen of Fortune: Maelstrom
This download offers three sets of executables: DirectX9 - 64 bit, DirectX9 - 32 bit, DirectX 8 - 32 bit. By themselves, they provide nothing to play, but each of the versions can play the following, freely available mods and derivatives:
Maelstrom is a space strategy/diplomacy game made by Plain And Simple Systems in 1992 and takes place in a distant part of the galaxy on the planet Harmony. A long time ago a massive interplanetary war broke out in the galaxy, and as a result, many planets were damaged and the technology of all planets became almost primitive. The Maelstrom Mod introduces four new races to the Sins of a Solar Empire Universe. They are independent of the original races and have unique strengths and weaknesses. Maelstrom is available for Rebellion, Diplomacy, Entrenchment and Original Sins. Feb 20, 2007 Complete with the ability to terraform landscapes and transform units, Maelstrom provides gamers with the power to harness the forces of nature in the most frantic, destructive, action-packed RTS game yet. A stunning mix of action-packed RTS missions set in a totally destructible and immaculately realised environment.
Buccaneers of the Caribe (based on Pirates of the Caribbean)
New Horizons (from Pirates Ahoy! community)
Caribe Stories (based on Caribbean Tales)
Caribe Stories Historical Immersion (based on Caribbean Tales)
Lost Ships City (based on City of Abandoned Ships)
Gentlemen of Fortune 1.2
Gentlemen of Fortune 2.0
Gentlemen of Fortune 2.5
Historical ERAS II
Anyone who has played the above games, knows the frustration with the originals; rife with game-breaking bugs and frequent crashes.
No more! We have overhauled the code, eliminating the vast memory leaks and crash-inducing bugs. In addition, we have improved the performance, and also upgraded from the original DirectX 8 (despite the claim on the COAS box, any process explorer showed the game was never actually running DirectX 9). Also now provide a 64 bit, for systems using that architecture (though even without, all the same fixes were applied to our DX8 and 32 bit versions, so older systems can still benefit).
Some other improvements are the swapping out of Windows memory allocation routines, in favor of a famous, more efficient method that increases allocation speed, improves efficiency and reduces fragmentation. FMOD, for sound, is updated to the most current and the engine implementation of it completely rewritten for new features. Fixed fullscreen task-switching bug that crashed game, to actually allow fullscreen and task/window switching in/out of game without a problem. Deprecated DDRAW for video has been removed and updated with something newer. Save-file compression routine updated (still compatible for old saves, only in GOF, COAS and ERAS 2). Corrected multi-threading of sea calc routines. Changed to asynch system/trace logging. Now with built in options to control video adapter selection, VSynch, Triple Buffering, and Antialiasing. Various features were added to support further mod capabilities, notably seen in ERAS II, and things like improved ship AI within the engine itself. These are just a few of the long list of improvements/fixes developed over the last couple years that have been most graciously beta-tested by some forum members over at https://buccaneersreef.com.
Original Base Game: AGE OF PIRATES 2 – City of Abandoned Ships; Licensing sold and owned by other third party(s). Original Source Code (freeware) which ran in DirectX 8 was given away freely eight years ago and completely rebuilt and overhauled by the Buccaneer's Reef Team. This is completely new source code which is now capable of running all the older games based on POTC (Storm 2.0) and Caribbean Tales (Storm 2.5), plus the newer based on City of Abandoned Ships (Storm 2.8), but now in DirectX 9 and 64 bit, if desired, to which all rights are reserved by the Buccaneer's Reef Team and official legal licensing pending.
Minimum System Requirements:
- CPU SPEED: 1.75 GHz
- RAM: 1 GB
- OS: Windows XP
- FREE DISK SPACE: 180 MB
| Updated | 21 hours ago |
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | Windows |
| Rating | |
| Author | ChezJfrey |
| Genre | Adventure, Fighting |
| Tags | Action-Adventure, Action RPG, Exploration, First-Person, Pirates, Sandbox, Third Person |
| Asset license | Creative Commons Attribution_NonCommercial v4.0 International |
| Average session | A few hours |
| Languages | English |
| Inputs | Keyboard, Mouse |
| Links | Homepage |
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $12 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- Maelstrom Update21 hours ago
- Maelstrom Update11 days ago
- Maelstrom Update35 days ago
- Maelstrom Update50 days ago
Community
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