Alternate interface graphics

[teukros]

Hi, I'm a longtime Alpha Centauri player (solitaire only) and this is my first post to this forum. I never had Alien Crossfire (didn't really like the premise) but a couple months ago I came across some pics which seemed to show a _very_ different interface from what I'm used to, e.g. in the Planetary Council meeting and the Vehicle Design shop. The following is a link to a current EBay auction (disclaimer: I'm not involved in the auction in any way) with the two pictures I am talking about:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3072594655

So I bought the EA Laptop Collection (which included Alpha Centauri _and_ the "Alpha Centauri Planetary Pack", but did not come with any kind of Alien Crossfire documentation, not even a .PDF *fume*) and everything looks the same.

Are the two pictures in the auction I linked to screenshots from the Mac version? Or am I missing something?

Thanks!

Teukros

[The Mad Monk]

That's certainly not any in-game graphic I've ever seen.

I can see the airframe was mislabeled "speeder".

Maybe the auctioneer grabbed some old in-development photos off the web?

[Illuminatus]

Ahhhhh. I haven`t seen anything like that in a long time.
These are indeed old screenshots from the early development (I can post a few if someone is interested). Those auctioneers are really reckless - that interface was abandoned obviously and they are trying to sell stuff with false informations- BUT it can be seen in the animation for the Command Nexus (if you watch it carefully).

[teukros]

Fascinating! And thanks for the prompt replies!

Nuts. I was looking forward to the "new" interface :-|

[The Mad Monk]

Post pics please!

[Illuminatus]

I`ll post in about 24 hours (know on which CD but not where that CD is now).

[Illuminatus]

As I promised to Mad Monk here they are:

[Illuminatus]

Another

[Illuminatus]

Even more

[Illuminatus]

Final one

[Illuminatus]

You might notice that initial listing of weapons/modules is pretty much different than the one we all know. Also we can see that weapons have forgotten energy/projectile ability designated.
I wonder whose HQ looks like that [cough Morgan cough]
No idea what the artworks were supposed to be. Probably expelled ideas.

[Maniac]

IIRC there first were gonna be different interfaces for each faction. A pity they abandoned the idea.

[#endgame]

*drools over datalinks pic*

[The Mad Monk]

Thanks!

The datalinks pic reminds me a lot of the MoO2 data interface -- so much green.

From the drawing, I guess they were going to have more "settler"-like formers initially?

[Illuminatus]

Unfortunately, I don`t have screenshot whic actual game graphics in the begining - not only I cannot tell what is what, but all graphics is weird - inteface looks old with circular map shower in the center with some pretty hmm SQUARE teritory showing - solar plants look strange, bases look generic strange and there is something strange which looks like infantry with a shovel - but I cannot remember it exactly. Perhaps formers should have looked like colonists with shovel as Mad Monk assumed?