Recent content by ThorsHammer

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    Just joined today...

    Ughhh...this is beyond ridiculous. I hate Ebay...I was outbid on Wing Commander I and Wing Commander II in the last ten seconds of an auction. I set my max bid high enough on both that I figured no one would even get close to it (I set it for like $80 U.S. or $48 GBP as it was a U.K. auction)...
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    Best Windows Platform?

    Unfortunately for Wing Commander I'm running a Phenom II X6 with a GTX 460 and 12 Gigs of RAM. Its a beast for newer games, but I worry about the problems I'll run into playing older games with this type of system :/. I was hoping that by running a dual boot and allocating a small amount of my...
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    Best Windows Platform?

    I was curious as to what everyone thought was the best Windows edition to run Wing Commander? Right now I have Windows 7 which I'm sure is not very user friendly for running older games...I have DosBox installed as well, but from my understanding, that will only work for a few of the games. I've...
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    Just joined today...

    Thanks for the responses! I'll look on Newegg and Amazon today for joysticks. I bought Wing Commander Academy on 3.5 floppy but the rest of the games I've accumulated are CDs, is there much of a difference in terms of running these on DosBox? I'm gonna have to buy a floppy drive too...I haven't...
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    Just joined today...

    after years of visiting this site :). I'm currently re-acquiring the Wing Commander series (thanks to ebay) and I had a few questions for you all...but before I do so, I'd like to take a little time and introduce myself and how exactly I came to be a big Wing Commander fan. Back in the late 90s...
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