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I don't think he was even in the food chain on the Claw. :D I find it funny that in WC1 you only get to fly with Maniac in the losing path missions. If you do everything right he's never your wingman. What's strange is that I seemed to remember Maniac being in WC2 from that one time long ago...

What's wrong with it then? It works fine here on Windows XP, and has also worked fine on Win9x/ME. Okay, getting Secret Missions to work in XP takes some trickery, but other than that it's fine. Unless you're going to tell me that WC2 had good keyboard controls. If that was so, than the KS WC2...

I you think the CZ is bad, you should visit alt.startrek. Upon your return here, you'll think the CZ is heaven. The great advantage of messageboards like this one still is that the real trolls, the people who only bash the subject, can't find it! :p

But dying young is the thing that was bad about the first two. I'd like my death to be somewhere after my 100th birthday please. And if you consider the expanded lifespan the Spice Melange provides, they died even more to young. (is that a good sentence?) By those measures however, Leto II had...

Yeah, come to think of it, I don't think being Duke Atreides is good for your health. Paulus got assinated by means of a psyched up bull. Leto assasinated by his doctor. Paul got blind. Leto II turned into a giant worm. Are you sure you want that rank? :D

Sorry for the OT post and sorry if someone has made a comment about this before, but I've been away for a while. Cool rank Ghost. Which duke would that be? Paulus, Leto, Paul or Leto II? Dune = best book ever!

People on this board can think you're crazy for no apparent reason! :D Oh, and welcome aboard, as I saw this was your second post. Must've missed your first.

I could have called it 'bug in SM1' and you probably wouldn't have said that. The bug was the main reason I posted this in the first place (the announcement itself could have waited until the first 'need help with Secret Missions 2' post I'm undoubtedly going to make :D ). The announcement...

I don't think so. I have some Direct3D programming experience, so let me tell you the following on why I think it was like that: Most 3D systems (at least Direct3D and 3DS(max)) know 4 (or more) types of light: ambient, directional, spot and point. Ambient is omnipresent and comes from all...

What I meant was that what he's basically saying is that a capship battle is better than a capship battle. Only a very big one then. And I agree with him! :D

My main gripe about WCP in software, [edit: what the hell is that comma doing there? Dramatic pause?] was the shields. The shields are just made to look nice because of the blur effect caused by bilinear filtering. Without it, it just looked bad. At least in software the stars didn't appear in...

I completed Secret Missions 1!!!! Yay! There was a bug in there though, in the mission before the last one where you have to stop the strike force headed for the claw. When I targeted the Ralari, my targeting display showed no ship, just the shields. Also the distance remained -----. And...

Why not? Eisen called the Victory "Tin Can Sally" which isn't exactly the military classification either.

I... WAS... NOT... BEING... SERIOUS! But I agree the Harry Potter thing is wasted money. The books are great, but I just don't see it work as a computer game (or as a movie for that matter). And coincidentally, I have been suffering massive insomnia and exhaustion lately, so believe me...

Why? 1. Because we want it! 2. Because if done right (and innovative enough, which means it must be more than the 7th copy of the WC concept) it can revive not only Wing Commander but also the Space Sim genre, meaning more WC games and more profits on the long term. 3. Well... Just because...

Doesn't a fleet of capships attacking a fleet of capships constitute a capship battle as well? :D You must love the final episode(s) of Deep Space 9! :p

I think it looks okay with Direct3D HAL as well. Mind you I've never played it with 3DFX. I've seen it, but not played it extensively. In software, I think WC4 looks better!

My flying style is usually: "Take this, you Kilrathi bastards!!! AARGGHH I'm going to die!! Oh wait, no I'm not." :D Which means a high refire rate does me more good than a powerful slow fire weapon. Unless it's a real weak weapon, like the single laser on a Hornet. Which brings me back to...

You could do that in Space Quest I (in the VGA remake at least), launch a shuttle without opening the bay doors. In one word, Ouch... If I remember correctly, the whole ship blows up when you do that. Talk about bad ship design! :D The other extreme was opening the doors and walk into the bay...

Why, so they can blow up the Chiefs of Staff? :D