It seems that the German Swiss movie release we expected yesterday will actually happen on March 9. That's not too much of a wait. According to kulturinfo.ch and kino.bsonline.ch the theaters in Basel and Zürich (the largest city in Switzerland) will begin showing the movie on Thursday, March 9. The date probably applies to all German speaking portions of the country. Thanks to Cedric Wasser.
Yikes, those Windows 2000 results below are awful. Anyhow, we have a bit of an explanation of the Wing Commander 3 PlayStation issue we've been following for the past few days. According to Justin Bielawa, EA Origin programmer Steve Coallier, who worked on the original conversion to the PSX, said that the audio/video scramble was a random bug that popped up during regular PlayStation use. So we may have to wait until more PlayStation 2's hit the market before we fully know how Wing Commander 3 will work on the new console.
Although all of the games tested below were tested on the final release build of Windows 2000, there is no guarantee that games listed as working will work on your machine, and those listed as not working may well run under a different configuration. The DOS mode games are not included in the list since Win2K DOS mode seems to have broken SVGA mode, and no sound or joystick support. Basically, all DOS games except Privateer and Armada should work the same as in Windows 9X, except without sound or joystick, and they'll only run in VGA mode. Privateer and Armada only work in full DOS mode which isn't available in Win2K.
Kilrathi Saga - Installer and XanMovie working
Kilrathi Saga WC1 - Plays intro, but crashes at first menu screen.
Kilrathi Saga WC2 - No known problems.
WC3W, WC4W, and WC4 DVD - Display "VirtualProtect() failed." error at startup.
WCP and SO - Crash at startup in all video modes.
Privateer 2 - Movies run fine, gameplay fine but sound stutters. Speed limiter works too, which it doesn't for me in Win98.
Let us know if you discover anything more about Win2K's compatibility with WC.
A report by Henri Souza. There is celebration amongst the convicts of Hades tonight, following Deltagam Corporation striking a historic deal with the prison authorities. Deltagam have won exclusive rights to broadcast the new sport of Batting, which has found favour amongsy inmates with life-sentences. Based on the archaic sport of Boxing, Batting utilises the same rules, except each contender is given a Plasteen bat with which to assault his opponent. Twenty inmates have already died playing the sport, but this has not deterred enthusiasts; indeed, following this afternoon's revelations, the number of applications has trebled, each looking for their 15 minutes of fame.
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