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-danr-, I confirm what sgupta said: it's also in the DOS version of WC (I just had it last week, while replaying SM1 in Dosbox!!!)

I joined in in February 2003, but have been visiting the site for more than six months before (at the time, I was mainly looking at the "technical" threads: what to do if the joystick is not seen, how to make the WC games run in versions newer than Win 98, that sort of things ;) ).

Although WC1 had no competitor when it was released, and WC2 brought a deeper development in the story, I think WC3 was the most impressive game in the series.

Sorry everybody, but in addition to WC, I also have Strike Commander and Ultima, but unfortunately have never been able to install it! So I voted for Ultima...

My first Wing Commander was WC1 in 1990/91 on a 386DX/33Mhz. Everything controlled by the mouse at the time (which I found impossible for WC3 / WC4).

:) I was surprised New Constantinople had so few votes. Now I know!

I've purchased the five games (floppy version for WC1, WC2, Secret Operations and Secret Missions, CD version for WC3, WC4 and Prophecy). I averaged the single cost at $30 each, and thus voted for the 101-250 range, but I could have probably chosen the third possibility... I've been offered...

Another option is to go "offroad" and avoid the mines or asteroids fields! ;)

Did you do something special? I have the speech package but did not install it yet (I did a few years ago, but then my computer wasn't running XP!)

1. Privateer (my favorite in the WC games, followed by WC2) 2. Civilization II 3. Call to Power (which I mention because it is different from Civilization, even if it's the same idea, so I do not include it in the Civ series) 4. Under a killing moon (but I also liked - and have - the other...

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WC3 runs under Windows XP, without any other utility (such as DosBox or VDMS). But, like THE_WUQCKED, I experience bad sound (cuts).

I voted mouse, because you could really control your ship in WC1 & 2 (left button= gun, right button + movement = roll / speed, both = missile). Since I played Privateer only on my laptop, I used both mouse and keyboard (depending on where I were, and finally I remember it was sometimes easier...

I had a similar problem because dosbox uses the normal DOS names (8+3 characters), which means that if you installed Privateer in a directory with a longer name, dosbox will not be able to mount it... In my particular case, the directory (Windows XP long names) is: c:\games\wing...

WC1 being the first game in the Wing Commander universe I played, I must admit I still like it better than the other ones (though I didn't play Prophecy yet). Nevertheless, I would choose Privateer as my favorite, because even though there's a story, you can fly whatever mission you like...