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Young's Modulus

Ever wonder what would be to pilot a combat robot for real? Enter Young's Modulus. Made by Austin Meyer, the creator of X-Plane, Young's Modulus is a crossbreed between a simulator and a strategic FPS that puts you in command of a group of All Terrain Attack Walkers (or ATAWs for short) against invading aliens. What sets it apart from the likes of MechWarrior is the realistic physic model the game uses to calculate things like collisions, inertia and gravity. The name of the game itself is a technical term used to measure the strength of a material. "The higher the Modulus, the stronger the material", says on the main menu.

The game is divided in two parts. The first one is turn-based and takes place on the strategic window, which shows a map of the galaxy. In there you can manage resources, develop technology, colonize planets and launch attacks. The other part is played in real time and takes place in the battlefield window, which puts you in the cockpit of an ATAW. But if you don't want to deal with the strategic part, you can play a quick game, which takes you directly to the ATAW configuration screen and then to the battlefield. You can also play quick games against other players over the Internet. Unfortunately there is no network option for strategic games. And while there is no map editor, the documentation tells you how to create your own planets with a text editor and a graphics program.

After selling it as shareware for over ten years, Austin Meyer posted a serial number on the game's website (see below) thus turning it into freeware. The site is now gone except for a blank page that says, "this old app is being removed, but may soon be updated!"

Serial number: 123456. This is version 6.45. You can also download this file from: http://dev.x-plane.com/update/YMACFULL645.sit

Compatibility
Architecture: PPC

Minimum system requirements:

• Mac OS 9
• Any PowerMac of at least 400 MHz
• Monitor resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels
• 80 MB free on the hard drive
• 256 MB of RAM
• Speech Synthesis. If you get the error "Can't Find Speech Lib", then you need to get the speech manager installed on your Mac. Do this by doing a custom install with your System CD, and only installing speech synthesis
• A video card that supports OpenGL with at least 8 MB of VRAM

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