Wing Commander HD goodies?

Akira · 27 June 2001, 18:07

Yesterday I installed Wing Commander on my HD again. I used to not be able to run it, because I had 1 MB of RAM. I once found a workaround, installing it myself, which allowed me to play it from the HD without needing 1.5MB. However I always thought strange about that requirement, I wondered if tehre were any extra goodies for HD users. Now that I have 2MB I gave it a try, and so far the only goody I found, was that when you message the ships while in the game, their face appear in your comms screen.

Does anybody know if there are any other HD-only goodies? a whole 512K can't be wasted in just a couple of piccies, can it? ;P

What about other games that had HD-only goodies? Methinks Fury of the Furries had some, but I Cant check now (my disk 2 got bombed)

Puzzle · 01 July 2001, 09:25

I think one of the reasons for the 1.5MB-requirement was that the game was intended to be started from the Workbench.
And, harddrives needs buffers and other things.

Akira · 01 July 2001, 14:14

I dunno bout that, because as I said, I installed it by hand meself, and it worked, even from workbench (after a bit of optimization of course

So far I only noticed that goodie (pilot faces on the comms screen)...

poppe · 23 July 2001, 13:46

Did they ever release those missions disks they talked about?

Akira · 23 July 2001, 16:19

I'm not sure, there's a button to play teh Secret Missions I disks on my game, but I think they never got released.

27 June 2001, 18:07	#1
Akira Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: # Posts: 12,593	Wing Commander HD goodies? Yesterday I installed Wing Commander on my HD again. I used to not be able to run it, because I had 1 MB of RAM. I once found a workaround, installing it myself, which allowed me to play it from the HD without needing 1.5MB. However I always thought strange about that requirement, I wondered if tehre were any extra goodies for HD users. Now that I have 2MB I gave it a try, and so far the only goody I found, was that when you message the ships while in the game, their face appear in your comms screen. Does anybody know if there are any other HD-only goodies? a whole 512K can't be wasted in just a couple of piccies, can it? ;P What about other games that had HD-only goodies? Methinks Fury of the Furries had some, but I Cant check now (my disk 2 got bombed)

01 July 2001, 09:25	#2
Puzzle Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: Somewhere Posts: 99	HD-goodies I think one of the reasons for the 1.5MB-requirement was that the game was intended to be started from the Workbench. And, harddrives needs buffers and other things.

23 July 2001, 13:46	#4
poppe Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Umeå Age: 35 Posts: 195	the mission disks`... Did they ever release those missions disks they talked about?

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01 July 2001, 14:14	#3
Akira Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: # Posts: 12,593	I dunno bout that, because as I said, I installed it by hand meself, and it worked, even from workbench (after a bit of optimization of course So far I only noticed that goodie (pilot faces on the comms screen)...

23 July 2001, 16:19	#5
Akira Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: # Posts: 12,593	I'm not sure, there's a button to play teh Secret Missions I disks on my game, but I think they never got released.

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