For the solar system patrols, I assume that the force would have to fold to each location, or did they use sublight drives? In those early days after the war could ARMD's (and Oberth's ?) have taken care of this or would it have to be Zentran ships?
I play this game with the emulator as well. I have a pretty high end machine but everything runs really smoothly and configuring the emulator wasn't all that bad.