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    Your first Wing Commander game?

    Not just that but also the "drip, drip, drip" of the bucket. It just added that bit of atmosphere. I know, I seem easily pleased now, but as those who remember will atest, the original Wing Commander wasn't just about good Sci-fi sim shoot-em-up action (as it is now, which is why we still play...
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    Your first Wing Commander game?

    Wing Commander, on a PC no longer fit to be a calculator. I remember how cool we thought the savegames being bunks was. Then onto WCII, second time with the speech pack. Good fun.
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    War of the Worlds

    AI was fine.. if it ended about 20 minutes earlier.
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    War of the Worlds

    I must say that I thought Cruise actually did ok in this movie. He created a character I did not like in the least, could not relate to (seemingly Tom Cruise playing himself) yet I watched, I cared and despite knowing the story, I worried. I thought yes, Ogilvy was a bit wasted, the dark end...
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    Privateer Newbie 3

    well I have my eye on a couple of ebay auctions ;) ... I'm sure my old man still has his old WC diskettes, wonder if they still work... The saga version of WC I/II just generate an application runtime error, same one in DosBox as if you just try and run them from Windows (as mentioned, I run...
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    Privateer Newbie 3

    I got privateer up and running on my 2003 server laptop last night.... oh how it all came flooding back. I find the best way to know if you are going to make a profit is to head to producer factories... mining bases produce metals, agriculture produce food, etc... the key however is not to...
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    Escort carriers...

    Thanks Ljuin, that's pretty much precisely the kind of info I was looking for. Thanks so much for your time in answering my questions, I appreciate they were pretty broad and so not easy to just give quick answers. The waterloo class sounds like just what I'm looking for. Is the encyclopedia...
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    Escort carriers...

    I'm thinking of writting some fan-fiction... I plan on writting about an escort carrier.. something a little smaller to handle than Confederation class ( much as i like 'em) .. I was thinking maybe about an Exeter class. But this is where I need some expert help... would an Exeter fight for...
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    High-Rez Hornet

    I can't even BEGIN to say how ****ing cool that is. Amazing work. I'd love to be able to do something like that and I may well go dig out my 3d books and actually learn how to od such things. I can't begin to express my gratitude for all your work on this, just seeing those videos brings joy...
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    CIC Clothing

    Signed up specifically to reply to this thread heh. I'd take a jumpsuit and baseball cap of your hands.
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