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    Run All Old WC Games in DOSBox Walkthrough

    Alright... so in my in-flight options i turned video mode to VGA... turned off all miscellaneous options and sound options... and turned detail to low. I've gotten to Loconda 1... but it still crashes on me at random times when I try to play this mission. Thank you for all of your help.... but...
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    Run All Old WC Games in DOSBox Walkthrough

    Alright.... so i figured out to go to the in-flight options and i turned detail to low, and turned off pallet flashing, cockpit, and jitter. I finally got through mission 4. But the first mission in the Tomayo series... where the victory is under attack and there is lots of action... i can't...
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    Run All Old WC Games in DOSBox Walkthrough

    Well... in the game options i turned off transistions, stars, and description. It let's me play much futher into the mission... but sometimes when the action gets too hot it will still shut down.
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    Run All Old WC Games in DOSBox Walkthrough

    try going to dosbox.conf and change ems=false. That worked for me.
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    Wing Commander Games and Windows XP - A Summary

    Alright... so I'm playing WC3 using dosbox... everything's working great except when i get to mission 4 in Orsini system, where I'm supposed to escort a civilian transport defending against several fighters and a corvette. On this mission dosbox always crashes. It also crashes on several of...
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    Run All Old WC Games in DOSBox Walkthrough

    Dosbox crashes. I don't get any sort of error message or anything, it just decides to close shop on me. It happens in certain training simulation missions and in the 4th mission in orsini system where you are supposed to escort the civilian transport, defending against the fighters and the...
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    Run All Old WC Games in DOSBox Walkthrough

    Hey Chris, thanks for the help. WC3 is working great now. However, sometimes it'll exit out in the middle of a mission. Any suggestions for that? Thanks
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    Wing Commander Games and Windows XP - A Summary

    I was having trouble with my KS WC3 game on winXP. I could get past the intro movies and into the game... but once I started trying to go around on ship or talk to people it would freeze up. So I went back and uninstalled the game. When you intall it you have three options of either normal...
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    Run All Old WC Games in DOSBox Walkthrough

    Ok... thanks... that fixed it. So i went through the installation... got into the game... but there's no sound. And my joystick works terribly... any suggestions? Thank you for your help.
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    Run All Old WC Games in DOSBox Walkthrough

    Ok... so i went do dosbox.conf and changed ems=false. After doing that when I went back to dosbox it sent me to the installation menu for WC3. First of all, my joystick wouldn't calibrate correctly. So I just calibrated it the best I could and went on. Everything else seemed alright so i...
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    Run All Old WC Games in DOSBox Walkthrough

    ok... so i had copied all four discs under four seperate folders under a WC3 folder in c drive. So i tried mounting wc3disc1 from c drive and it said there was no directory. So i moved it out from the wc3 folder to the c drive directory. I then mounted this in dosbox as mount d c:\wc3disc1 -i...
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    Run All Old WC Games in DOSBox Walkthrough

    Alright... so i mount the c drive. Then i go to the c drive and type mount d c:\wc3 -i cd-rom. Then it says Drive D is mounted as local directory c:\wc3\. So then I go to the d drive. At D:\> I type wc3 -i. Then it says illegal command: wc3. What am I still missing? thanks
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    Run All Old WC Games in DOSBox Walkthrough

    Thank's Chris.... I'm getting a little bit further now I do believe... let me tell you what I've got. I mount my c drive.. so that's all well and good. And then you said to mount the folder with the disc contents as a cd-rom. So I typed "cd wc3". I'm guessing this was the right thing to...
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    Run All Old WC Games in DOSBox Walkthrough

    Hey... I just got the original dos version of WC3 and I am trying to run it on my Windows XP using Dosbox. I am not especially computer savvy. Perhaps this has been discussed elsewhere, but I'm not sure where. I've copied the cd's to my hard drive. I go to dosbox and mount the c drive... but...
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