WC Computer Specs

dacis2 said:
I don't have the cash or anything but as soon as I can reformat my computer, I'll install Windows 98 instead of XP, that'll let me play nearly all the WC games except for the early ones I guess
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It should allow you to play every one of them with some tweaking. I run Win98 on my WC machine and can run every WC game. My only remaining problem is my joystick will not work in Academy, but as soon as I'm finished playing P2 all the way through, I'll find a way around that too :)

C-ya
 
Y'all really are crazy.

Let me tell you! Back in the day... here's what I played WC1 and 2 on:

286 at 4. C.O.U.N.T. THEM, FOUR MHz.
1 MB, thats 1024 KB, of RAM
an 80 MB HDD (that was huge, no joke)
There was no such thing as a discrete video card.
I had an 8-bit Sound Blaster.

Now, I look at you guys' fancy pants 166 MHz Pentiums and 486SXes -- "look at me play Wing Commander" and think to myself... man, am I the ONLY person who remembers the day when memory was clocked at the same speed as a processor? Come on guys, I'm only 18.
 
To the "I've got a slow computer and am proud of it" folks:

[Pliers]Well hoo-ray.[/Pliers]

:p
 
Edfilho said:
And there's no way in hades WC2 would work in a 4MHz machine.
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The Minimum Requirements for WC1 and WC2 were a 286/12 MHz, or a 386 and a Sound Blaster if you wanted to use the speech in WC2. Anything below that, and I doubt it'd work right, especially with it needing 640K PLUS 1024k EMS... so you'd need a minimum 2MB of total system RAM to work.

I played it on a 386 at the time, with 4MB of RAM. Now who's blowing smoke? :P
 
I played WC2 on a 286 with EGA graphics. The graphic conversion took around 2 hours. The installation was an adventure on its own!

Later on, I replayed it on a 386 with a sound blaster, and it was great.
 
I forgot to mention the RAM... I don't think WC2 could run decently with less than 4mb. But I might be wrong.
 
I had tons of trouble getting wc2 to run on a 75 mghz system with 16 meg of ram. Then again, I was 12, hadn't had that computer for six months yet, and had no bloody idea how to make my own bootdisk.
 
Making bootdisks was something of an art, back in the day. I remember spending hours juggling lines in CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT.
the two single games to give me the greatest grief were Ultima 7 and Privateer. Origin-made games... Why did they have to use their stupid proprietary mem manager?
 
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