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I don't know anything about the Mac version of OIDS, but I have the Atari
ST version and it is absolutely amazing there.  Definitely the best game
(in my opinion) I've played.  It has held my attention for over a year now,
which no other game has ever come close to doing.  One of its major pluses
is that you can build your own worlds and galaxies for other to play in,
so you never have to get bored ofthe galaxies that come with the disk.  One
caveat, the Atari version is extremely well copy-protected, and cannot be
copied successfully as far as I know.  Every time I tried to make a backup,
I would get a copy that worked, sort of.  Various colors would be wrong and
certain game actions would simply not work at all, even though the copy
was usually more or less playable.  That's the only real negative feature 
about the game, although it would be nice to use a two button joystick with
it rather than having to double click for the bombs.  Now that I think of
it, OIDS might be very difficult to use on the Mac with the mouse.  It does
work with the keyboard, but the joystick is infinitely preferable.

Adam