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I tried using another gameport joystick with the same results. Anyway, I played one mission using the mouse, and I started getting the same choppiness in the sound, getting gradually worse. I quit DOSBox, restarted it and played another mission using mouse, this time with no problem with sound...

Wing Commander runs fine in DOSBox otherwise, but if I try to use my ye olde Gravis joystick, music gets choppy (=has split second pauses, more if I move the joystick around). I have 1,3 GHz AMD Athlon with 256 MB memory. The joystick plugs into the gameport at my Sound Blaster 128 PCI card...

Wedge009 really has great scripts: "And something else I wanted to mention. Hunter did a bolter yesterday, a two-point 'touch and go' landing. He managed to snap off one of his ship's laser cannons, break three aerials, and terrify the flight deck crew. Pilots, we use the ACLS - our auto...

I remember reading somewhere on these forums that the ships in WC3 were for the most part older than the ones in WC1, they were simply modified a bit to serve as frontline military vessels as the Confederation lost more and more of the latest stuff. Of course, much of the look of the ships were...

Well, I wasn't all that serious here to begin with. Reminds me of a certain physics major who calculated that the Death Star couldn't produce enough energy to destroy a planet the way it did even if it converted it's entire mass to energy.

So it's a pure coincidence that many of the ships closely resemble certain other Wing Commander ship models? That's... interesting.

I was also thinking that this might have something to do with the target planet's tectonic unstability. Anyway, I dug up some points of comparison. About a million years ago a meteorite impacted in Zhamashin, Kazaksthan producing an explosion of about 100 000 megatons (and the theoretical...

This is very nitpicky, but I was browsing the trivia archives and came upon what Admiral Tolwyn says the output of Behemoth's main gun is: 500 million gigawatts (or 500 petawatts). According to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaton one megaton of explosive power equals 4.2 petajoules. This...

Does anyone have a transcript or an accurate recollection of the discussion about the Mace nuke Maniac and Maverick have in Special Operations 2 the first time you get to fly a Morningstar? That was pretty funny.

Maniac and Hawk in Prophecy: Maniac: After all these years, to finally get my own squadron. Hawk: You like to be in charge? Maniac: Yeah. Hawk: To be in control? Maniac: Yeah. Hawk: To be the one the CAG chews out when your team screws the pooch on a mission? Maniac: Yeah... hey...

My self-esteem hasn't let me try Rookie so far, but at least a Hellcat on Veteran level gets blasted with one hit.

I'm not sure whether this should go to general or tech support since I'm not sure whether this is a gameplay issue or a bug. Anyway, I recently started playing Wing Commander IV under Win95 on my 1333 MHz system, and it plays fine except for one thing: missiles always kill me with a single hit...

That identity overlay thing and brainwashing just feel too cheesy for me. Stockholm syndrome, on the other hand... Seeing as Cobra was a rather extreme warrior personality, I think she might have very well identified with the Kilrathi.

Isn't Crusader: No Regret the same as Crusader 2?

A local (Finnish) computer games magazine named Pelit-lehti, a highly reputable publication around here. Those names supposedly gave some general indication about the plotlines: in Revelation you find out the nature of the enemy, and in Apocalypse (could've been Armageddon, hazy memory) you...

Never considered Cobra from that point of view... Damn! I trusted her show of hatred for kilrathi sincerely. I withdraw my previous statements, and vote for Cobra. Seems even more unlikely at first that she'd be collaborating with the kilrathi. Maybe she could send Rollins to sickbay with that...

...who do you think it should've been and why? At least I thought the identity overlay stuff was a bit too cheesy. And hey, Hobbes is cool! After considering this question, I came to the conclusion that my personal preference would've been Vaquero. Hypothetically speaking: he's from the...

I recall reading that the following episodes after Prophecy were to be named Revelation and Apocalypse. Seems like EA which seems to hold the rights for Origin merchandise is only interested in Ultima Online.

Right now my interest is as strong as ever since I just finally got my personal WC games collection finished!

Well, Hitler's übermenschen ended up losing also...