Wow thanks, looks like that hack was designed for the exact issue that I've been having. I can't believe that I didn't find it in my searches. I tried it and now the game is working great; no more colour problems. :]
I'm trying to play the Kilrathi Saga version of Wing Commander 1 on a Windows 7 64 bit machine and everything runs fine apart from the colours seem to randomly invert. I have tried various different compatibility settings but the only one that seems to make a difference is running in 256 colours...
I take back what I said about Dragons being an exception; I just killed Seether in a single hit with an IFF. That was the shortest 'boss' fight I've had on WC ever.
Yeah, I can see where they're coming from. I just don't like the way that I almost only every use FFs for fighters. Oh, and I just fought a couple of Dragons. I guess that they're the exception.
In Wing Commander III my missile loadout generally depended on what ship I was flying and what I expected to be up against. For example, if I was flying a Longbow, I would load up on FF missiles as they can deal alot of damage to light fighters, which a Longbow will have trouble targeting...
The missiles are so powerful in this game that I'm beginning to wonder if it's right. Fair enough, missiles are meant to be extremely deadly. But I can destroy a fully shielded Longbow with a Pilum FF in a single hit. This seems to make the more powerful missiles useless when against...