Nice overview of the Longbow series! It was gratifying to hear that it took you a while to get into LB2. I've had it installed for a couple of years, but I tend to gravitate to the sims I know.

I've noticed that most players want all their games to work on their newest PC, hence Glide wrappers and all the other work-arounds. But I have LB2 installed on an old PC with a Voodoo 3 graphics card. It is very satisfying to have a game "recognize" all the things it wants to find and install and run without a hitch.

Great article!