I had got win95 to install on the pi but it would only run in safe mode even after following the many win95 guides for dosbox but the Pi version is dosbox doesn't entirely behave the same as x86 platforms.
So, hence the gba cheat heh
Pros:
-Voiceovers are cool and some of the characters are how I imagined them
-Doesn't do the same single ship at a time thing SNES did so moar action!!
-Wing Commander everywhere!!!!!!
Cons:
-The soundtrack is what really got me into this game moodwise and on the SNES it sounded amazing so the...
Remember 10 years ago? a trance infested FPS space death match lan game?
Remember how nothing happened and it faded into history?
Well it's back as of last Friday with the first public binary release in over 10 years and it's still as fun as it ever was.
http://www.philtopia.com/?p=1248
The positive thing to takeaway from this endless list of cancellations is that EA is still being pitched and considering WC games. One is bound to get through eventually
Good news for linux/mac users the Installer works in wine however their distribution of dosbox blew up in my face BUT you can run it with your naitive Dosbox
the file game.gog is actually the iso disk so once you have mounted your C drive in dosbox as the Wing Commander Privateer folder...
Boo.
I'll be telling my grandkids one day "Back in my day there were different genres of games...I used to pilot a space ship and shoot cats!...and I used to play games on a computer!!"
"Oh sure grandpa, whatever you say *rolls eyes*"
The box is massive compared to anything else I have on my shelf currently.
I have always wanted a set of WC fighter blueprints. No one makes anything with this much detail anymore it seems. The wife offered to laminate them for me which would avoid anything crushing like TheFraix mold...
The only reason I like the original ferret is because a battle seems more intense when your computer systems are blowing up all around you.
These variants look very cool though