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Despite them both being space sims, I always saw X-Wing and Wing Commander being very different games myself and not entirely in direct competition with each other. I'd actually agree about the gameplay to a degree but Wing Commander offered immediate action and a more immersive experience with...

You just got the making of book as a hardcopy at that level. I went in a little lower but I did the same and added both the T-shirts and the squadron 42 manual. I wasn't able to watch all of it by any means but the webcast was great fun. I missed Billy Cain but it was great to see some of the...

I was right about waiting until November but I finally got the converted film back this week and have uploaded the results to Youtube. The quality isn't what I would have hoped as the footage was computer generated first and then scanned onto 35mm meaning it's not all that sharp:-

I've only known one guy who worked at the BBC and since he was in local news reporting it wouldn't have helped much here. I've swapped emails with Keith from the BFCC anyway and everything is more or less arranged. He will use the best resolution he can depending on the film. 4K is out of the...

I've done some more asking around and the guy that runs the British Film Collectors Convention will convert it for me for £25 + media costs which is a lot more like it. He's down in London so I'll have to arrange it all through the post but I'll try to get that moving this week.

I had a look at getting this done in the UK a while back. I figured there wasn't much point in doing a transfer in anything less than HD which ruled most companies out. Out of those left, just about everyone I tried claimed to convert all formats but couldn't actually do 35mm when approached. I...

If I'd bought it back then it would have been £4.99. Thankfully I didn't and it cost me a few pence at most as part of a vanload of old magazines. I was a PC Zone subscriber back in the day, which was far better than this on the whole but hardly immune from dodgy reviews. I still hold a grudge...

Most of the WC4 reviews I've scanned in are like this. PC games magazines were near enough all written like that over here by the mid-90's and WC4 with it's huge budget appears to have been an easy target. I did find one reviewer that gave it a decent score but I had to look through a lot of...

It's a different reviewer but to satisfy your curiousity, here is the Frontier review from the December 1993 issue:-

You're welcome. I've got a spare copy if you want to make an offer. It's got some shelf ware and doesn't have the plastic cartridge holder but it's not in too bad shape. I've got my eye on the FM-Towns version so the money would come in handy.