Windows 2000 Patches For WC3 & WC4 Available Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Update ID

NStriker has developed patches to get several Wing Commander games running in Windows 2000. Wing Commander 3 Kilrathi Saga, Wing Commander 4 CD, Wing Commander 4 DVD and Wing Commander 4 DVD Alternate have patches now. The alternate patch is if you need to apply gulikoza's mpeg2dec file for the patch that runs WC4 DVD without a hardware decoder.
I've created patches for WC3 Kilrathi Saga, WC4 CD, and WC4 DVD that fix an offending API call and allow them to run under Win2K. There still seem to be some outstanding issues like WC3 being unstable in general and I have yet to get my joystick to work in WC4, though I believe neither are related to my patches. I'll try to work on those two problems, but I can't promise anything.
You can find more information on getting these games to run at Crius.net here. gulikoza also helped with this effort. You can find his work here.

Creative Wing Commander Pencil & Paper Game Developed Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Update ID

Lloyd Krassner from Warp Spawn Games has created a pencil & paper Wing Commander project for people interested in some board game fun. It takes place on a regular chess board, and people are responsible for drawing their own pieces and cards on paper mock ups. I'm sure some super creative people could print out pictures of ships to use in place of more basic representations. The rules might remind you of the official Customizable Card Game. You equip pilots and weapons and draw maneuvers in a similar fashion. A few moves are taken from traditional chess style play. Each side starts off with eight fighters and must destroy the opposing team's Wing Commander designate. If you've got a bunch of spare time, following the instructions and making your own game set looks like it'd be a lot of fun. You can find the complete rules and directions here. We've mirrored the file here in case something happens to the Angelfire site.

A Warpgame is a subset of war games. These are NOT computer-based games!!! These are old-fashioned, low-tech, paper-and-pencil affairs requiring some modicum of imagination to play. Included here are the rules (and just the rules, ma'am). If you want to play, you will have to make your own maps and pieces, as well as purchase a lot of funny looking dice. These games are FREE. All I ask for is some feedback. Please send your suggestions and comments to: kraz@Bellsouth.net

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