Installation Introspective

Nostalgia trip. Anyone remember CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT? HIMEM and EMM386? DOS/4GW and MS-DOS mode in Windows 95? Setting IRQs and DMAs and I/O addresses manually to get a sound card to output properly? You could fill a small book with all the trials and tribulations PC gamers have had to endure over the years sussing out design quirks in hardware and software just to get games like The 7th Guest and Wing Commander and Doom running functionally (to say nothing of "optimally"). And that's drawing the starting line in the early 1990s.

The Art of Wing Commander Arena - Part Twenty-Nine

This is the second of three in-game medals. Here is Wing Commander Arena's "Silver Star", part of a system patterned after the awards in Wing Commander I. This art was not used in the finished game. The bird theme found in all three of these medals comes from the Firekkans... who we'll see more of in the future. The artist also drew a connection between the word Terran and a bird's talons.