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This is the message the GOG version gives you if you quit via the airlock. (Tweaked settings to not close DOSBox upon exit)

I may just be dreaming this, but I seem to recall the DOS WC1 exit message was 'You step out of the airlock and into...' Possibly only when you quit via the door in the barracks and not with alt+x. It's been a while since I played the original DOS version so I'd have to check.

Oh nice, I missed that. Looks faithful, and I can't wait to see the finished project. Now, I'm going to be a complete douchebag and probably incite the combined wrath of @Pedro and @DefianceIndustries at the same time, but was there ever a time when you considered using the WC3 Hellcat cockpit...

Any eyecandy of a Longbow cockpit yet? Will be interested to see what you guys come up with.

If you want to see it fly and fight, you can use the Wing Commander 3 Mission creator written some years ago by @HCl to set up a battle involving any of the craft in WC3, including the Frigate! I could well be remembering this incorrectly but I have a feeling it fires lots of missiles in combat.

Speaking of background heads, I wonder if this one was designed with Iceman in mind before it was decided he wouldn't be in the game:

Wow, I had no idea it could be that costly.

The budget did cross my mind; but I was wondering that since all of the original gameplay assets and units had been re-done, how much extra work it would have been to do the cutscenes as well? You'd certainly know better than I would though, and I'll concede it doesn't look too bad all things...

I seldom get to game any more, but when I do, it's pretty much always Elite: Dangerous. It's an excellent choice for astronomy enthusiasts and science buffs. After 600 hours I still never tire of the deep space exploration. It's not the swashbuckling space action adventure of Privateer, nor...

I actually think instead of trying to upscale the original C&C FMV cutscenes, they should have replaced it completely with CGI. It could have been done very faithfully - including all of the original voice recordings, and the end product would surely have looked better.

Good question, I will have to look into that. You could always download the Wing Commander 1 intro from YouTube and use that for a screen saver in the mean time :)

I don't know of the specific tool you speak of although I do recall an episode of All Wings Considered where @Bandit LOAF showcased an old After Dark set of screensavers with Origin title themes. That said, these days it's rather straight forward to make a screen saver from any video of your...

Heh, thanks for getting back to me! I'd forgotten ever writing the above guide. Good to hear it worked all these years later!

Yes, I never considered that various chat apps can swap backgrounds now. In fact, I do something similar with still images in GIMP almost daily with 'swap colour for transparency' commands. In my head, the ability to do this with video seemed much more complicated, but as you point out, simple...

I think a lot of Wingnuts would be willing to donate to that. I wonder how difficult it would be to insert new high resolution backgrounds to the green screen footage. I'd assume this would require some studio-level hardware and expertise. Sorry to have derailed your thread @ODVS

Nice. Thank you for these. It's a pity there's nothing that can be done for WC3 - as that is the game that would benefit from something like this the most. I suppose unless the original raw footage is somehow obtained, such ventures would be impossible.

This is great! Iceman in WC2 would have been interesting. Most likely an extra ally for Bluehair amid all the hostility. I wonder which pilot slot he'd have replaced if any - and would he have been the best pilot on the Concordia instead of Jazz? But he couldn't replace Jazz outright because...

That's terrifying. Prayers are with them.

Yes, I have the same benefit here - living in South Western, rural England makes for a lot of places where you can easily go and be alone. That said, the weather's been awful and I've been using my stationary bike and free weights for exercise. Your estimate is probably about right, the...