Flight Commander Released! (April 18, 2001)

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Eddie Benowitz has released the first beta version of Flight Commander, his 3D Wing Commander game featuring an entirely new engine. Here's the details...

I'm proud to announce the first public beta of Flight Commander. Flight Commander is a Wing Commander 3d combat game engine written by a fan. Features include

• OpenGl acceleration.
• Takeoff and landing cutscenes.
• Nebula and planets in the background.
• All fighters from Prophecy, Wc3, Wc4, Armada, WC1 and many capships.
• A graphical mission editor.
• Easy editing for ship stats, guns, and missiles.
• Music and sound effects.
• Explosions.
• Automatic detection of newly installed campaigns.
• An AI.

Get all the fun at http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~eddieb/fc/Please email any questions, or campaigns , to eddieb@ucla.edu.What's really needed now is Wing Commander experts to help create stats for ships and weapons.

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Original update published on April 18, 2001