Anyone play Wing Commander on XP Home?

Sat Dec 18, 2004 11:09 pm by RelliK

Hey , I just ran across my old 6 disk set of wing commander ( perfect shape too) and was wondering if anyone had tried it out on a newer machine with xp installed with or w/o sp2 is great..First space flight sim i ever bought..lol

Sat Dec 18, 2004 11:11 pm by sycho warrior

We've got WC 1 and 2 running on XP...It wont read the Prophesy cd though.

Sat Dec 18, 2004 11:18 pm by RelliK

Hey thx, now ill have to give it a try..I had a problem with a CD not reading a tribes disk in a 48x, i put it in a 24x and worked just great..same machine

Sat Dec 18, 2004 11:22 pm by sycho warrior

You'll have to use a special program enabeling it to run, I'm not sure what we're using, but it works

Sat Dec 18, 2004 11:27 pm by RelliK

hmmmm..interesting..*(search)* *Special Program* *Fail* *Abort*..*Contact Warez*...lol..thx again

Sat Dec 18, 2004 11:33 pm by sycho warrior

hmm ok apparently we're not using anything special to run it...I thought we were using somehting like DOS box, but apparently we're not.

Sat Dec 18, 2004 11:53 pm by Esquilax

The "Wing Commander Saga" contains WC1, 2, and 3 optomised for Windows 95, and is probably your best bet for playing these classics in XP. For WC3 and 4 there are some unofficial XP patches that have worked excellently for me. The WCSaga (only games 1 and 2 plus SO addons) can be downloaded as abandonware. As for the floppy version of WC1, you should be able to get it working with emulation software such as "VDMSound" or, as suggested, Dosbox.

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