Wing Commander Preview

Wing Commander Preview
Platform	Amiga OS
Engine	3space, Origin FX
Release Date	August 6, 1992
Language	English

Wing Commander Preview is a rolling demo of Wing Commander Amiga. It is roughly based on the Now Showing demo. It features a briefing, takeoff and landing plus a cockpit which displays three sets of rotating ship sprites. It was released by Mindscape via BBS on August 6 1992. In November 1997, it was included on the CD-ROM version of Street Racer to promote the Acid Software release of the game. The demo does not have sound.

Differences

• The preview uses 64-color Extra Half-Brite (EHB) mode while the final version of the game uses the standard 16-color mode.

• Colonel Halcyon's uniform is grey with a green undershirt and a red insignia.

• The pilots running during the scramble are noticeably closer together.

• During the takeoff and landing cutscenes the Hornet cockpit slides forward instead of lifting up. It displays more damage than the game allows during landing.

• The Hornet cockpit is incomplete and does not have any active instrumentation.

• The landing cutscene shows the Hornet landing upside down and then backwards.

• There is one fewer flight deck crewman during the landing cutscene.

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Transcript

NARRATOR: In a thousand years, the Empire of ilrah never met a race it couldn't conquer... ...until it met Man! Now Mankind battles the evil Kilrathi... ... for the fate of a thousand worlds...

HALCYON: We blow this one, and a million colonists on Dakota IV pay the price! So lets go get them!

TECHNICIAN: Glad to see you made it back alive, sir.

NARRATOR: In 2654 AD, Mankind needs a hero... Can YOU meet the Challenge?

Recording

• Download: Pix_Wing_Commander_Amiga_Demo.mkv

How to Play

The ADF package version will run in an Amiga emulator like WinUAE or Amiga Forever. Sections of the demo will run too quickly on faster Amigas so it should be configured for an earlier model.

Characters

Speaking

• Colonel Peter Halcyon
• Unnamed Tiger's Claw Technician
• Unnamed Tiger's Claw Spacecraft Director
• Unnamed Tiger's Claw Tractor Driver
• Unnamed Tiger's Claw Flight Deck Crewman

Non-Speaking

• Christopher Blair
• Major Michael "Iceman" Casey
• Major James "Paladin" Taggart
• Captain Ian "Hunter" St. John
• 2nd Lieutenant Todd "Maniac" Marshall
• 1st Lieutenant Mariko "Spirit" Tanaka

Ships

Terran

• Bengal (TCS Tiger's Claw
• F-36 Hornet
• A-14 Raptor
• Unidentified Wing Commander Ship

Kilrathi

• KF-227 Salthi
• Gratha

Download

• WingCommanderDemo.lha: Original BBS release (484 K)
• wingc_trailer.zip: Pre-configured Amiga Floppy Disk Image (ADF) file from AMI Sector One (551 K)
• Street_Racer.zip: 1997 Street Racer ISO (66M)

Links

• AMI Sector One
• Pix's Origin Adventures review
• YouTube recording