Advanced Strategic Command
Advanced Strategic Command is a free, turn based strategy game. It is designed in the tradition of the Battle Isle series from Bluebyte and is currently available for Windows and Linux.
ASC can be played both against the AI and against other human players, using hotseat or PlayByMail. It is also used to run the multiplayer universe Project Battle Planets
Latest Versions
stable
ASC 2.1.0 Source Code (for all unix-like platforms)
stable
Headlines
2008-04-20 MacOS X Progress
ASC is now working correctly on MacOS X again. We don't offer any precompiled package for download yet, but if you are familiar with the Unix build system,then compiling ASC on MacOS X is a piece of cake using Fink.
For more information, go to ASC on MacOS X
2008-04-06 ASC 2.1.0 released
Today we have released the next major update to ASC. It offers new maps, units, buildings and cool new features like MPEG4 saving of replays or automatic harvesters. Lots of bug-fixes and minor improvements have also gone into this release.
2008-03-14 Updated Bugzilla
I've have updated the Bugzilla installation to version 3.0.3, since the previous version was really old and out of date. The location has also changed and is now http://terdon.asc-hq.org/bugzilla3/
2008-02-01 New CVS tags for PBP usage
Effective immediately, the version that is used in PBP is going to be tagged with PBP. This should make it easier getting the 'right' version for Linux.
2008-02-01 Development Version introduced in PBP
As development has reached a quite stable state, the current development version is being introduced in PBP. The windows version is available at http://www.asc-hq.org/asc21a16.zip
2007-10-21 The first bugfix
The very last change to the ASC source code before the ASC 2.0 release introduced a bug in the MapEditor's EventEditor. We have immediately fixed it, so you will already find ASC 2.0.1 behind all links to the new release.
2007-10-21 ASC 2.0 final
After several years of development, we have finally released ASC 2.0
Featuring a completely rewritten user interface and new graphics engine, it is a major step forward from the old 1.x series. We have also added lots of cool new features, too numerous to list them here (and to be honest, we lost track of them during three years of development 
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2007-08-05 Website cache
In preparations for the zillions of visitors that the ASC 2.0 release will bring to the webpage , a caching mechanism is now in place, which make the most-used wiki pages available as static pages from www.asc-hq.org. The terdon.asc-hq.org server is experiencing very high system load at time, making the wiki quite slow.
The cached pages are update every hour.
2007-07-08 Changes to ASC directory handling [Win32]
As one of the last functional changes of ASC2 before its release the directory handling for Windows was overhauled. By default ASC will write its files into the users' application data directory.
Existing ASC installations should be mostly unaffected. There is just one setup which doesn't work any more: relying on the current working directory to find the ASC2.ini and having the ASC2.exe in a different directory. In that case, either move the ASC2.ini to a ApplicationData/asc/ , or set a registry key to its location
For more details about ASC's directory logic, please see Knowledgebase #39
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