HCl's Wing Commander Research (August 25, 2011)

[Bandit LOAF]

As with Privateer Day, the early Wing Commanders arriving on GOG are a great excuse to look back at some of the incredible research HCl has done over the years!

• For Wing Commander I, he has figured out exactly how the ship files work.
• Similarly, he has described the speech encoding in Wing Commander 2.
• He built a ship viewer for Wing Commander I and another for WC2.
• ... and proved he could create new missions with a test mission.

Unfortunately it looks like he doesn't have his Wing Commander 2 missions online anymore--I remember being completely blown away by them when I was nothing more than a kid!

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Original update published on August 25, 2011

 

[Madman]

I have a couple of old WC2 missions in my archive that might be the ones you mean:
Against the Odds, Armageddon, Concordia, Fralthi Damaged, Kabla Meth and Tarawa Mission are the zip file names I have, are any of those the ones HCL wrote?

 

[Bandit LOAF]

They are! We actually had someone e-mail us the missions already--I put them in our update queue to run in the next few days (... we've automated the CIC news for the next few days in case the Hurricane knocks out half the staff).