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Downside is the battle engine is not embedded in my vpa. I have not yet found a way to save and revisit battle information from previous turns conveniently other than restoring old turn data which is a bt cumbersome.

I have spent quite some commutes now pondering how to embed it in VPA, then it came to me:

You need not restore entire old turns. All you need to keep separately is the flakX.dat files, e.g. renamed to flak8-78.dat or so. You can then run PlayVCR on them (e.g. drag it on the exe file, enter command "playvcr path/to/flak8-78.dat"). All that matters is that the correct ship list file is available, it need not match the result/turn unpacked next to it.

With the DOS version it should be "ccbsim path\to\game /f path\to\game\flak8-78.dat", but I haven't tried that now.

Actually *embedding* it in VPA will probably be out of question; the DOS version is playing quite some dirty tricks with VGA registers to get full-screen animation. Having VPA start it like it does for PVCR might be possible.

--Stefan