Making the Game: Technical Support (June 14, 2009)

[Bandit LOAF]

And with that we leave design and delve back into the game's back end, the guts that keep it running. This document lists what 'technical support' the team needs for the project -- what software should be installed, how it should be configured and so forth. It may seem dry at first, but it's actually absolutely fascinating learning things like what version of DirectX each machine needed to have and why each team member was to have a monochrome monitor (for bug reports?).

These updates are thanks to John "Captain Johnny" Guentzel, who provided several CD image archives of material used by the Wing Commander Prophecy development team!

Technical Support
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Date: August 5, 1997
Project: Wing Commander Prophecy
Donated By: John Guentzel
Pages: 2

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Original update published on June 14, 2009

 

[Wedge009]

Not complaining, just noting the 404 "Not Found" error.

 

[Bandit LOAF]

I'd complain!

Looks like it's missing from the server - we'll get a copy up soon.

 

[KrisV]

It's up, thanks.

 

[Wedge009]

Thank you. I freaked out for a moment, thinking I had a corrupt copy. This document just seems to use some rather strange non-printing characters for white-space.

 

[Bandit LOAF]

And it's blue for some reason!

 

[Wedge009]

All the better to read on the monochrome monitors? I don't know... <shrug>