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[warispeace]

Wing Commander is one of my all-time faves. Never got the chance to play X-Wing though. I love the art in Wing Commander, the music, the branching storyline, the personalities of the different wingmen... I love the fact that you can fail a mission and keep going. You can even get to the end of the game and lose the war. I wish more games would do that today.

[Chris]

Wing Commander had far more depth in story and gameplay, while X-Wing was running on the smoother engine. At that time the 386 was just coming to market, so most people had to run these games with 33Mhz in best case, which is not much for a space simulator. As a sidenote: you had to have at least 4(!)MB of RAM to have the pilot's hand and joystick displayed in WC, which was really high-end at that time. Also the small pilot animations that appeared when you received a radio message were not shown on slower PCs.

[Scatty]

Not to forget the exotic memory management that's a trademark of most, if not all, Origin's games, thanks to which you had to bite yourself through 30 pages of autoexec.bat and config.sys text, to squeeze out that last bit of performance.

[Thraka]

hahaha so true!

Well I have the X-Wing and Tie Fighter 95 versions which added textures to the polygons and redid the whole UI for selecting missions etc. It is MUCH nicer than the original dos version. Very cool.

On the same note, I forgot I had downloaded a long time ago the WC Kilrathi Saga, so started to use that to play on my machine instead of the dos versions, and they run perfect.

Ahh too much fun I really wish Dosbox would run WC much better than it does though...