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Add to the that the fact that the Space Force pilots, flying off Navy ships, also perform soldier-like duties as Marines... gah! Reminds me of Space: Above and Beyond, with the pilots also specifically trained for ground combat missions. Always thought that was a little strange, but hey, maybe...

If you navigate to where you installed the game, you should find a '.conf' file that DOSBox uses to set up the emulation. You can edit this file in a text editor to change resolution, fullscreen y/n etc. etc. Getting midi music to work correctly was a little tricky - for WC3 you can add '-i'...

I like how you've used the cockpit frame to link the WCM Rapier with the game versions a little... nice! Makes me think about linking the WCM Tiger Claw with WC1 Tiger's Claw in a similar way...

Hey! I love Freespace! Does that make me a bad person? Its not a 'shitty knock-off' its just not Wing Commander! And look what its given us: www.wcsaga.com

[volunteers again, hand waving in the air] Yeah a good tool writer would surely have some kind of way to do it. I actually can't see the art assets being too much of an issue with wc1/2 stuff, given how simple they are (by today's standards). Wc3/4, a completely different story. [hand down for...

I think he means the intro sequence with some space combat... the classic WC1 fanfare/theme, not the origin logo. (the origin logo music is indeed c minor/major! And dag-nabbit, now I'm going to be going through ALL the music of Wing Commander and figuring out what key sig. they are all...

Whats wrong with B flat minor for the opening? Then switch to b flat maj. for the rest... Works when I play a scale in my head...

I shudder to think of someone going through every line of code and fixing every single broken entry when trying to debug on a modern system... Head-a-splode. Even C++ has differences in syntax from year to year!

Yes I was imagining that 'crashing' was probably too strong a word... more likely it came to a rather rough and unintended landing ;)

[volunteers to rebuilt art assets from scratch]

Just because it SHOULD be possible, doesn't mean it is. As Loaf said, all those previous ports relied on the source code being present... which is now lost. I just can't fathom how you would do it without the source files (both code & art). By reverse engineering what is there? Legality...

Wondering if it was a bit of a Battlestar Galactica moment... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2enjkVJb4Mw Imagine the Midway in its place... In regards to the Concordia... I would imagine with the mass of a capship, plus velocity of it entering the water, it may very well have dug its own...

Not to mention the huge issues with getting old dos-based game code to work with current-gen systems... its not just a question of re-drawing the art, its that the language used has just changed so much over the years, that 'converting' all that old code in the flight engine might really be just...

I imagine Tom Wilsons voiceover work could be related to the limited edition Back to the Future shoe that Nike are doing... http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/nike-releases-famed-back-to-the-future-shoe-20110909-1k0j0.html I do love a good conspiracy though!

Freelancer had really nice animation for the time (compare it to x2:the threat - same release year, but freelancer streaks ahead) - a real demonstration of what 3d characters could do in terms of storytelling. I also think that the mouse control worked fantastically in freelancer, and would...

I always thought that too - I guess arguably a corvette comes between a true capship and a fighter (and a Sorthak between a fighter & a corvette!). But I missed seeing corvette type ships in the wc3/4 era. Was there ever plans to have them that got scrapped I wonder? Since we had kilrathi...

I'll be hanging out for the r4 release... if it ever happens... Loaf, if you're asking about an r2 release, could you maybe ask them about r4 also?

I always thought the logo was a representation of the assembled clans, with each glyph representing a single major clan - makes sense that it changed after the imperial family were killed when Kilrah went up. Weird though, WCPedia lists the Assembly of Clans as being post Kilrah-destruction...

I'm afraid to say there isn't. The midi music from the original tie fighter was not included with the collectors cdrom version. You can play the old Collectors CD version with DosBox - it runs ok if it is a bit laggy on older machines. D-Fend is a graphical GUI for Dosbox that I find very...

So... you mean you would like to see a new Wing Commander set at ANY time? Heh heh me too... The only option I don't want is pre kilrathi war... can't imagine a new WC without the cats. I am interested in the whole Pilgrim war thing, but I reckon its better left to fan fiction, books, or mod...