Dosbox means that you don’t have to tinker around with your config.sys and autoexec.bat files to enable expanded memory anymore, though I must say that was quite a satisfying process on its own to find the right balance for your upper memory. And bear in mind that this was before achievements, so you don’t get a pop up stroking your ego whenever you kill one. It still feels like it’s the most important thing in the world to hunt down the Kilrathi aces, especially since everyone talks about them in the dialogue leading up to the mission. The graphics are low res VGA but honestly there’s a certain charm about it that I wouldn’t give up. The same solid game play that made it so fun back then holds up now.
I don’t think the decades have changed anything. If you put footage of me playing this game back then next to footage of me playing it now, it would look the same. I remembered all the controls, all the tactics, the way you fly to nav points out of sequence in order to avoid asteroid fields, and I even remembered that the maximum effective range of a laser cannon was 4200m (it used to be a copy protection question). They say you never forget how to ride a bicycle, and honestly that’s how I felt when I started playing Wing Commander again. Call around and they’d have a Hori fighting stick if you’re lucky, but something to play flight sims with? Good luck! It took me days of searching auction sites and calling computer stores before I finally found a Logitech 3d extreme pro, hidden literally on the floor under shelves and shelves of mice. Shops don’t really stock joysticks anymore. Problem is, it’s 2014 and the 90s were two decades ago.
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