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Greetings WingNuts, Last week, we watched the 1993 action classic Demolition Man. The only major connection to Wing Commander was that Chris Roberts used a track from the movie when temp tracking Wing Commander. Here's the scene in question as it appears in the movie… the music is pretty hidden...

The short answer is we can figure it out! The Wing Commander Prophecy guide's bio for Lance Casey gives us a pretty clear timeline. It that Iceman met his mother during short leave "shortly after the Firekka engagement." She finds out she's pregnant and Casey takes a one week leave "a few...

In their original print form, the original seven Baen Wing Commander novels each open with an excerpt in their front matter. It's typically an action scene from later in the book intended to sell the book to readers not familiar with the franchise. And each one of these previews had a unique...

PETSCII is a character set that was introduced for the Commodore PET in 1977 and which was used for Commodore's other PCs prior to the Amiga. And where there's a character set there are users turned artists who can do incredible things with it! In 2025, Commodore fans still compete to push the...

Howdy folks! Bob found a good candidate for movie club (Zulu, quoted in Action Stations) in another thread so I thought I'd start an official place to make suggestions. We're looking for movies that fit into one of these categories: - movies that inspired Wing Commander in some way; typically...

Good call, consider it done. We should have a thread for finding these specifically.

I think he must be gunning for everyone who was on the ship when Goddard was destroyed; Hawk would've been in OCS. (But he's still missing some people. Hunter, for instance!)

Ali's birthday is August 9 and the day before the birthday is when I'm most needed to get things ready... so it'll probably always be the week after in the future.

I'm happy to report that our second Wing Commander movie night was a success! We had a great group of fans who enjoyed seeing–and lightly roasting–The Dam Busters together this past Friday night. You can find the complete after action report later this week. So next we're going to be watching a...

Oh wow, what a wonderful get! I've got a KATT but I have never found any of the cards... and I'd kill to see them :D (I'm also sorry your posts aren't going up instantly, the system keeps asking me to approve them. I'm not sure why, I've never seen it do that before!)

We never get the story directly but you can put it together from a couple of different places! In Fleet Action, the Concordia is badly damaged in the Battle of Earth. She takes three torpedo hits by the end of the story "and was crippled, barely able to make twenty percent speed" when the book...

Alias|Wavefront (now a subsidiary of AutoDesk) is a company with a long history of developing industry-focused 3D rendering tools. Origin's FMV Wing Commander games used their PowerAnimator suite for their CG work and the team at Digital Anvil used Maya for working on the Wing Commander film...

The Video Game History Foundation recently announced that they had acquired the rights to Computer Entertainer magazine, a gaming periodical that ran from 1982 to 1990, and made it freely available online under the Creative Commons license. This is an invaluable resource for early gaming...

Before Wing Commander was ever an 'interactive movie' it already had a lead actress: Saranya Carr (2629-2688). Though she is barely ever seen, the story of Carr and her daughter Morgana is a constant in the background of Wing Commander's lore. Let's take a closer look… Saranya Carr was created...

Years ago, we scanned a copy of what has been referred to as the Wing Commander "series bible" (here, PDF) It's a massive document that records all sorts of information about the Wing Commander series up through Wing Commander III. The copy we preserved came from the actual physical document...

Mirrored it on here for future generations: https://download.wcnews.com/files/other/Pods%20PGG%20tweak%20pack%20v2.86.zip Also, future generations: Gemini Gold exists because there was no DOSBox when the project started and it was incredibly difficult to play the real Privateer. You can play...

I suspect that was the intent! I'll add it to the pool.

Demolition Man gets our seal of approval; it's not anything brilliant but it's endlessly fun and it really compares favorably to Judge Dredd. Our next movie will be Seven Samurai (1954) by Akira Kurosawa. Seven Samurai is regarded as a timeless classic and a film that has had endless influence...

Here you go: https://web.archive.org/web/20140706064043/http://privateer.sourceforge.net/comlink/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1155 The Mediafire link still works to get the file: http://www.mediafire.com/?zep57ti7bjjvbip

I believe it's still Chris Douglas (who was on the original WC2 art team) but done later and under different circumstances. I think we're seeing a couple of different factors coming together. The Morningstar (and the Gothri) were done later rather than being reused assets like the Crossbow and...