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Right now, its the last mission of SO1 (I think it was the last mission, anyway), with a full 4 sabres vs a bunch of Kilrathi fighters and a pair of capships that both know how to use their AMGs. The Prophecy mission where you paint the transport for Midway's plasma gun rates high too. And...

Ok, I've got it fixed, but the fix is (so far) incompatible with HCl's hacked Armada. There are a number of things I can do to deal with this though, and it works fine for WC2, Privateer, and of course WC3. Tonight and tomorrow I'm going to test it with more dos games, make it configurable in...

Qbix over on the Vogons DosBox forums confirmed my diagnosis. I'll try to whip up a correct fix by sometime this weekend.

Bonus fix in HCl's dosbox patch! My joystick behaves much, much better while using HCl's version (no jumping around in game or in the calibration screen). If I had to guess, I would imagine it had something to do with HAL's timing fix. In any case, it is a welcome improvement. Now, I just...

Since you're actually not loading any device drivers, the only things I know of to try are: 1) Try loading emm386 into high memory (not sure if you can do that, but it doesn't hurt to try - replace "DEVICE=c:\WINDOWS\EMM386 blah blah" with "DEVICEHIGH=c:\WINDOWS\EMM386 blah blah" 2) Start...

Very happy Birthday to you, LOAF.

I've played through the first 1 1/2 disks with dynamic core without any crashes at all. No luck with the joystick though - the higher you set the cycles, the worse it gets both for calibrating and flying in-game. I've only got it set to 38000 cycles (which I can almost do with core=normal)...

Hmm, I had meant to edit that post with a more direct link when I got to work, but I guess I'm too late, so... here This is about 6 megs, looks really crappy, and uses DivX, so you can view it without the zmbv codec. I wonder if this should actually be in the "General Wing Commander" forum?

Yep, I'm rusty all right... Full quality (around 20 megs) Click here to watch WC2-Mission-3---wow-am-I-rusty I also made a version compressed with ffmpeg to DivX. I think I might have compressed it a little too much though! It looks pretty blurry, even with the framerate halved. If...

My WC2 skills are kinda rusty, but I'll see what I can do. And I'll try to compress this one more. Note that WC2 music and most sound fx don't get recorded if using MT-32. Works fine with soundblaster though.

Is that the 0.2 version you released only a .exe of, or something even better?

Ok, here's a sample video. Note that you need a special codec, zmbv (included with DosBox 0.65), to view it. The compression isn't great, but it is meant to be fast and lossless, and you can always recompress it later. WC2 videos are actually pretty small because of the low resolution, and...

Look at the craft from WC2; I can't think of any block-shaped fighters. Most of em are pretty rounded. Some of the capships are too. And nebulas really aren't very dense AT ALL. Any kind of performance gains/profile reduction/cost savings for making something blocky vs rounded would almost...

Its not that a shockwave goes away, or even loses much energy - the total energy generally remains the same. However, it is spread out over an area of 4*pi*r^2 (surface area of a sphere), so at a 1 km distance a 1 m^2 area experiences only 1/12566370 of the total energy (that's around...

Putfile looks good, I'll have to try it when I get home and finish fixing my 0.65 build with HCl's NetBios stuff.

I posted this in the tech support forum dosbox thread as well, but here... Also, I played with the ctrl-alt-F5 video recording feature this morning, and it works extrodinarily well. I didn't notice a performance hit at all in WC2 or Armada, and Armada I run at 22k cycles which pretty much...

Dosbox 0.65 works better than 0.63 for: WC2 (smoother at same # of cycles, able to turn cycles up higher. DosBox's joystick support is also improved. Game speed was consistent during fights, instead of speeding up/slowing down depending on the # of objects on screen like I was used to)...

I'm all ready, got Prophecy installed on my new(ish) pc, got a new HazardScript config for my joystick, just playing through various Wing Commanders to stay in shape a little.

I would say Tigershark, but it has heat seeking missiles and rocket pods. I LOVE heat seeking missiles in Prophecy/SO. Give me a ship with nothing but heatseekers, dumbfires, and mass drivers/tachyons, and I'll give you a lot of alien space debris. I'd have to say the Shrike is really...

I still like the Gladius, even if it isn't as cool as it is in Armada.