More Ways To Run Old WC Games In Windows Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Update ID

A little while back we reported about VDM Sound as a potential option for clearing up a variety of sound card issues when trying to get older WC games to work. There's another popular program out there called DOSBox. The premise is similar. With this utility you can simulate an environment that more closely resembles what earlier WC games were meant to run on. The program even has a speed adjuster built in for those who're trying to get Wing Commander 1 or The Secret Missions running.

DOSBox emulates a 286/386 realmode CPU, Directory FileSystem/XMS/EMS, a SoundBlaster card for excellent sound compatibility with older games...
You can "re-live" the good old days with the help of DOSBox, it can run plenty of the old classics that don't run on your new computer!
You can get DOSBox here. Neeco spotted this one at Crius.

Force WC4 to Run in XP Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Update ID

Continuing our self help theme today, Hades has packaged up an installed to make sure you can run the Windows 95 version of Wing Commander 4 in Windows XP. If you have trouble trying to get the game installed, use this set of files to get around your difficulty.

The boxed native Win95 version of WC4 includes a Windows based installer. You'll probably need to extract the zip to a directory somewhere and then copy the contents of the first WC4 CD to that directory before running the setup exe. You might also need to edit a file once installed to change the CD path and then install the W95 game patch.
You can download the package here. The original Windows 95 patch for WC4 can be found here. This solution came out of alt.games.wing-commander. If you have further difficulty, check out our Tech Support Forum.

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