Pioneering the use of digitized audio in full (though rare) cinematic scenes, the add-on speech pack inspired many to adopt the Sound Blaster card. Even on the most capable 386's, this game was sure to have hiccuped during certain combat intensive areas. While it could run on a 286, and I'm positive quite a few people indeed ran it just that way, there they would have been experiencing something of a slide show. Version 5 of DOS was recommended due its added ability to load itself into upper memory, something previous versions could not accomplish. Requiring the then new MS-DOS 5.0, as well as 583k of the available 640k conventional memory in VGA, and somehow more in EGA. ^From hero to zero, starting the game, our place in the universeĬoming out during a time when a large percentage of PC owners were still utilizing graphics cards which had been inferior (for gaming) when brand new (EGA, CGA, etc.), Wing Commander II was one of those games some people would be willing to buy a brand new computer just to show off. I missed out on the second game when new, finally getting to experience it through the Kilrathi Saga, a Windows 95 port of the first three games. Our first PC would be bundled with none other than the third installment in the Wing Commander franchise. It would start happening more in the coming years, mostly with CD titles, though we'd hang on until SVGA (640x480) truly started to impress. The Amiga had many fantastic original games, a boat load of outstanding ports which bettered the original versions, and even if a port wasn't so great we usually had a mostly authentic experience, comparable to its home system. It was the first time I had gone through this. With a sigh he passed it along to me, and I learned that one of my favorite Amiga games would not be getting its sequel ported to our machine. My father sat at his desk reading one of the numerous computer magazines at his disposal. Rounding the corner, with perhaps a swing around a support beam (for good luck), I excitedly entered the computing domain. This was a man made wall consisting of a large and tall computer desk which went 'round a corner, a metallic filing cabinet, and a dresser in which a fish tank sat on top of. In a dimly lit and dank smelling basement, excreting that unique concrete musk, our Amiga sat in a walled off corner. *Some pics slightly altered to show more text *Game played on DOS hardware, pics of 4:3 CRT monitor
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