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Galactic Frontiers
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Developer:
Human Media
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It was the era of the warlord, when someone with a safe home planet, adequate military resources and some military skill, together with a certain ruthlessness and an eye for the main chance, could hurl their battle-standard across the Stars to bring half a hundred galaxies to bow at their feet...
Working Title
Galactic Frontiers almost shared a title with its distant antecedent in the interstellar 4X genre, the 1974 board game Stellar Conquest. The earlier name can be seen in version 1.0's owner resource: Stellar Conquest v1.0. Version 1.0.2 amends this string to Galactic Frontiers™, but the game's Mac OS creator code remains sCNQ.
Resource Names
The dialog box that says "Sorry, but Galactic Frontiers requires System 5.0 or later to run" has an ALRT resource called "system>4.1" and a DITL resource called "Note requires 6.0.4". System requirements must have fluctuated during development.
The "Game Over" box has the internal title of "DeadDuck".
Avast!
An ALRT called "shucks" and a DITL called "Illegal version" make up this message to pirates:
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By version 1.0.2, the warning had been upgraded to a threat.
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It was probably an empty threat, though. A Mac of that era didn't have a software-readable serial number.
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