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    WC Kilrathi Saga

    Thanks for the link. That's just what I was looking for.
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    WC Kilrathi Saga

    I played it on a 15" CRT the first time, but, you're right, 14" was pretty much the standard for pc bundlers then. I'm well into WC3 now. Once I got past Orsini 4 things started to go pretty fast (God! I hate skipper missiles). Hey, I'd completely forgotten that Josh Lucas played "Flash."...
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    WC Kilrathi Saga

    I started replaying WC3 via DosBox .71 yesterday. When I do the CPU test, I get "Very Fast CPU (Excellent)." I'm running it on a P4 3.4 gig dual core, 2 gigs RAM, GF6800GT, Audigy 2, XP from images on a virtual drive. The game runs perfectly except for a minor sound glitch. The sound...
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    Privateer.

    I installed SC just to see what it looked like compared to Privateer. Those talking heads look mighty similar in style to the ones in Priavateer and the bunk save system is certainly reminiscent of WC. During the opening movie you hear Tex speak and he does sound like Burrows (sans the Texas...
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    WC Kilrathi Saga

    I'll second that. I'm just now replaying the WC series (currently at the start of WC2 SO2). I own Kilrathi Saga and it was my intention to use it to play the first three games. However, I discovered that trying to play KS under XP is a great pain in the tail. WC works OK, WC2 ran, but with...
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    Privateer.

    Well, I've found one RF diskette loose in my closet. Does anyone know how many diskettes RF has? Next, I've got to check the games that I store in the garage for the rest of RF and the Privateer speech pack. That's going to take a while....but it'll be a trip down memory lane. :) As for...
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    Privateer.

    Yeah, I thought there was a speech pack. I dug in my closet some more and came up with the original RF box (with no diskettes or documentation in it, except the receipt) and an EA Classics WC2 on CD (which I didn't even know I had). I would've bought the Privateer speech pack with the game...
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    Privateer.

    I ducked out of work to buy my first copy of Privateer shortly after it was delivered to the local Egghead (according to the receipt in the box, I bought it at 12:34 pm on 10/27/93). Yes, that first play-through was probably the best. To this day, Privateer remains my all-around favorite pc...
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    Privateer.

    I ducked out of work to buy my first copy of Privateer, immediately after it was delivered to the local Egghead (the receipt in the box indicates that I bought it at 12:34 pm on 9/27/93. With my 5% Cue member discount, it cost me $47.89, plus $3.47 sales tax). I could have sworn there was a...
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    Privateer.

    When I played Privateer and RF back in '93/'94, I spent considerable time looking for that base.....a true fool's errand. Recently, however, I finally got to visit the Kilrathi ammo dump in the hollow asteroid.....but not in the original Origin game.
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    What was your first Wing Commander experience?

    I've always thought that WC was the better game. WC2 seems entirely too story driven (i.e., wingmen constantly lose their ships, but never die.....unless the story calls for it) and there's no real incentive to rack up kills, as medals and ranks were eliminated. In WC there's a fairly complex...
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    What was your first Wing Commander experience?

    WC on the pc in '92. Just finished replaying it (and SM/SM2) a couple of weeks ago and am currently just finishing a replay of WC2.
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    Best Wing Commander 1 fighter?

    Definitely the Raptor
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    WC2 Runtime Overlay Error??

    Loadfix got it! There was a cutscene and it was hanging there. I used that CIC game info page when I installed WC2 a couple of weeks ago, but either didn't read or forgot about that red note. I should have checked out that page before posting. Sorry about that.
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    WC2 Runtime Overlay Error??

    Having finished WC, I started WC2, but didn't get very far before running into trouble. In the second mission, Gwynedd 2, where you defend the Concordia, after I've finished off all the enemy ships and am by the Concordia, the game freezes. When I minimize DosBox and bring up Task Manager, a...
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