Thank you for bringing back to life one of the best PC games ever made. This was one of my favorite games of all time... and now thanks to your efforts is once more.
I remember back in January or February of 1993. I was thumbing through a computer game magazine and saw an advertisement for Wing Commander: Privateer and was completely blown away. I thought... "WOW I can be like Han Solo... flyin the stars, making my own way... merchant, smuggler, pirate...
I checked by the computer game stores every week waiting to see the game.
Then BAM! There is was. I ran home and quickly loaded the DOS version on my machine. 7 or 8 floppies! What a HUGE game! I remember that it didn't work initially LOL... and after several hours playing around with my Autoexec.bat and config.sys files... and EMS ROFL It finally worked. No voices though. This was the original without the voice overs.
I was in Privateer heaven... and keyboard frustration Hell LOL no joystick. Believe it or not I finished the original game using only the keyboard =)
Then came the voicepack and the addon... Righteous Fire!!!
SWEET!
I remember the firstime I played the game... with a joystick. OMG! I can actually get my reticle over the target!
The game stayed on my hard drive for years.
Time passed and I played all the Wing Commander games. While fun... they never captured the open ended game play, or the one man against the universe feel of Privateer.
At some point I finally got the Privateer CD game for Windows 95. It worked OK.. sort of... with Windows 95 and 98... You had to play with the CD in... weird... I hated the new nasally whiny voice of the Privateer =(
Then... *turns his head and vomits... Privateer 2. What a disaster. Probably in my top 10 worst games of all time that I actually played until I finished list. The only ONLY reason I finished the game was that I thought in some way... it would get better... but alas... it was not to be. I hated Privateer 2 for what it could have been... but wasn't.
Then... Freelancer! I thought finally! FINALLY!!! here is Privateer reborn. It was... sort of... kindof... but still it didn't have the same feel as Privateer.
In the past year I have tried getting the old Privateer game to load and work properly with XP. I had limited success. Weird errors... sometimes one peice of the puzzle would not work... I sadly bent my head.
A week ago I was thinking about Privateer again and wanted to give it another try to see if I could get it working. I was thinking... I wish that whoever owned the game would revamp the origional with new graphics and re-release it. I would wait in line to buy the game.
I did a search and my jaw dropped when I found this site. I immediately downloaded the game and started playing.
*sigh... with the updated graphics and new features.. *sniff... you have made me so happy =D
I still have the origional game on floppy disks packed away. =D
Thanks again!!!!!!
I remember back in January or February of 1993. I was thumbing through a computer game magazine and saw an advertisement for Wing Commander: Privateer and was completely blown away. I thought... "WOW I can be like Han Solo... flyin the stars, making my own way... merchant, smuggler, pirate...
I checked by the computer game stores every week waiting to see the game.
Then BAM! There is was. I ran home and quickly loaded the DOS version on my machine. 7 or 8 floppies! What a HUGE game! I remember that it didn't work initially LOL... and after several hours playing around with my Autoexec.bat and config.sys files... and EMS ROFL It finally worked. No voices though. This was the original without the voice overs.
I was in Privateer heaven... and keyboard frustration Hell LOL no joystick. Believe it or not I finished the original game using only the keyboard =)
Then came the voicepack and the addon... Righteous Fire!!!
SWEET!
I remember the firstime I played the game... with a joystick. OMG! I can actually get my reticle over the target!
The game stayed on my hard drive for years.
Time passed and I played all the Wing Commander games. While fun... they never captured the open ended game play, or the one man against the universe feel of Privateer.
At some point I finally got the Privateer CD game for Windows 95. It worked OK.. sort of... with Windows 95 and 98... You had to play with the CD in... weird... I hated the new nasally whiny voice of the Privateer =(
Then... *turns his head and vomits... Privateer 2. What a disaster. Probably in my top 10 worst games of all time that I actually played until I finished list. The only ONLY reason I finished the game was that I thought in some way... it would get better... but alas... it was not to be. I hated Privateer 2 for what it could have been... but wasn't.
Then... Freelancer! I thought finally! FINALLY!!! here is Privateer reborn. It was... sort of... kindof... but still it didn't have the same feel as Privateer.
In the past year I have tried getting the old Privateer game to load and work properly with XP. I had limited success. Weird errors... sometimes one peice of the puzzle would not work... I sadly bent my head.
A week ago I was thinking about Privateer again and wanted to give it another try to see if I could get it working. I was thinking... I wish that whoever owned the game would revamp the origional with new graphics and re-release it. I would wait in line to buy the game.
I did a search and my jaw dropped when I found this site. I immediately downloaded the game and started playing.
*sigh... with the updated graphics and new features.. *sniff... you have made me so happy =D
I still have the origional game on floppy disks packed away. =D
Thanks again!!!!!!