Spanish Combo Disc Highlights High Profile WC3 Demo (February 22, 2020)

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ChrisReid

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Dennis Mull has posted another exotic Wing Commander find. This one is a Spanish preview compilation disc that includes the demo for Wing Commander 3. This was a big deal back in the day, as the package came in at a whopping 29 megabytes. Since 1994 was still the virtually pre-web era of dial-in bulletin boards, it's not something people could just easily download. It's even bigger than a bare bones install of Wing Commander 2! Even with a fast modem, it would have been tough to finish grabbing overnight. A stack of floppy disks for a demo would also be incredibly cost prohibitive, so this actually spurred the creation of the modern magazine cover demo disc and the very first PC Gamer magazine CD was famously inaugurated with this package. With that being said, a lot of people haven't actually played it before, and it's definitely worth checking out! You fly in an Arrow in a unique patrol mission, and there are some minor variations compared to the final game since it uses a slightly pre-release engine. You can grab it and check it out for yourself here!





The thumbnail shot they use is one of the famous first five WC3 screenshots released.




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Original update published on February 22, 2020
 
The download worked for me fine. It should be possible to launch the demo via DOSBox like any dos compatible software.
 
Thanks for the help. I've downloaded the Dos Box and it does load up to a point. It sticks at a options box that i can't get by. it has 'exception 0 happened' at the top and 'callers with 8 bullet points' further down and i can't progress beyond this point.
 
Your game data may be corrupted somehow. Unpack the game from the zip file again and try loading it with DOSBox again.
 
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