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I have to say that I played through Standoff (up through ep 4) about seven or eight months ago, and I loved it. It works brilliantly on my operating system of choice (Linux) and inspired me to find a hack to get your Unknown Enemy to work as well. Very well put together, and very high quality...

Throttle and Rudder support was not added to Wing Commander III until The Kilrathi Saga, according to the KS 'help.txt' file.

As an update to this, I did a little poking around on WINE's AppDB, and found a filed bug about WC3's stuttering issue with the KS version. I assume this was your doing, Darkmage. It advised trying a native dsound.dll as a workaround. I installed DirectX in an alternative WINE installation...

Making an iso in Linux is actually rather easy, and every distro comes with an app to do it. Your basic UNIX 'cp' copy command. ;) All you need to know is the device node of your cd drive. For example, on most of my systems, my cdrom is symlinked to /dev/cdrom. With the CD in the drive, I...

I'm not a huge fan of comic books myself, but I am thoroughly enjoying Marvel's series based on Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" right now. Darned good artwork there.

In most aviation branches of most militaries around the world even today, one must be an officer simply to climb into the cockpit. It's a fact that all the extra education and training required to be able to fly qualifies aviators for an officer's commission. On your average AFB or Navy...

The Kilrathi Saga in its entirety, and WC4 Win95 also uses DirectInput, and works just fine with USB joysticks.

It has been my personal experience that the further you get away from the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area, the worst 'Philly cheesesteaks' become, with the exception of when the chef you're ordering it from actually is from the Philly area. Case in point - I lived in Massachusetts for a...

Is the file JEMM.OVL in the Armada directory? In my Armada installation, it appears to be a little over 18kb in size.

For essentially the same thing as 'dd' under windows, find a copy of the 'rawrite.exe' utility. I know that Slackware Linux's install CDs include them. A simpler syntax than dd, and serves many of the same purposes. You can probably find it at ftp://ftp.slackware.com

I think the easiest way to explain it is this: First, you want to start with making certain that your hardware accelleration works with X Windows. The easiest way to do this, is to open up a terminal window, and enter glxinfo | grep direct if this returns 'direct rendering: Yes', then...

The OpenGL running THAT slow still makes me think that you may not have direct rendering. Do any other OpenGL programs run slowly for you? Try 'glxinfo | grep direct' from a terminal under X. If that returns 'direct rendering: yes' then I'd suggest trying any mailing lists for the intel...

I've noticed too that the OpenGL renderer is a little slow in the gameflow sequences (On Ship) but it really shines when you get into spaceflight. If it's still slow in spaceflight, I'd recommend running it at lower resolutions. On my celeron 2.0ghz, with an ATI Radeon 9250 PCI, it runs like...

A quick little update on this. After I upgraded to Xorg 7.3, along with Slackware 12.1 (and the included ati-6.8.0 drivers) the vision engine OpenGL plugin works absolutely beautifully, full radar and everything

After posting that, I took a quick trip through the Confed Gauntlet in Armada, and had a look around my Arrow. It was certainly interesting to see those images in S*S, unmodified, even.

HCl reference? From the ad for the Arrow Eclipse, opposite the table of contents, on pdf pg 2. Just under the cockpit view shots, which look like they're modified from Armada (Though it's been a while since I've looked around in an arrow in Armada. I'll rectify that later some time)...

I've tried both sound backends with WC3. Haven't gotten around to testing OSS with WC4 yet. Prophecy I can get to run gorgeously (SO, UE and Standoff too, thanks to that OpenGL plugin.) Only problem with that one, is on my ATI Radeon 9250 (No longer supported by the fglrx drivers) my radar...

Heya, folks. I'm trying to get Wing Commander IV, and the Kilrathi Saga running under WINE. Wing Commander I and II seem to run just fine, if a little fast (If I play with the KS frame rate limiters, I can smooth out the gameplay, the WC2 storyline animations on the other hand still like to...

Thanks guys. The savegame utility worked like a charm.

Yes. It happens just after the Midgard series, either outcome. (Midgard ends with the escort mission involving a captured Dralthi)