Origin having been absorbed, and AFAIK now, its successor, EA, now functionally out of business, is there a site that collected the equivalent of manuals, walkthroughs, guides, etc., and is still functioning ?
My youngest grandkid played one of the arcade style games (I think it was Crimson Skies) and got interested, and just before my ex-daughter in law shut down all contact, I'd acquired a couple of the DOS-based WC games (II & III, specifically) to let him play here at my place. The older grandkids have no similar interest, however I am intrigued by what I've seen so far (either I wasn't similarly taken by the premise, or else I was just too busy to play games back when these were current -- probably the latter).
I've always had a lot of my older PC hardware that didn't get sold, traded off, or given away, so I can use an original 486 PC from whenever that was current, if I want to do so, or a K6-2 350 from the earlier Windows95 period. I would prefer using the "DOS 7" in Windows98se, if that works well enough.
I don't have any early Pentium hardware any more. I did have a Pentium I, MMX 233 until last spring, but a nephew has that now (and I kinda wish I'd kept the old case that one had been in!)
Sure, if I had to, I could struggle with Win2000 or XP to run these with DOSbox, although I am avoiding Vista at least until SP-1, maybe even longer.
How about a few starting up suggestions?
My youngest grandkid played one of the arcade style games (I think it was Crimson Skies) and got interested, and just before my ex-daughter in law shut down all contact, I'd acquired a couple of the DOS-based WC games (II & III, specifically) to let him play here at my place. The older grandkids have no similar interest, however I am intrigued by what I've seen so far (either I wasn't similarly taken by the premise, or else I was just too busy to play games back when these were current -- probably the latter).
I've always had a lot of my older PC hardware that didn't get sold, traded off, or given away, so I can use an original 486 PC from whenever that was current, if I want to do so, or a K6-2 350 from the earlier Windows95 period. I would prefer using the "DOS 7" in Windows98se, if that works well enough.
I don't have any early Pentium hardware any more. I did have a Pentium I, MMX 233 until last spring, but a nephew has that now (and I kinda wish I'd kept the old case that one had been in!)
Sure, if I had to, I could struggle with Win2000 or XP to run these with DOSbox, although I am avoiding Vista at least until SP-1, maybe even longer.
How about a few starting up suggestions?
