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Patryk W > wrote:
> Markus Barth wrote:
> 
>> Beowulf wrote:
>>
>>> Ack.  You think you're old.  I'm 45 and still gaming.  I will be 
>>> firing up wc1,2,3,4 as soon as I finish setting up a PII with DOS 
>>> 6.22, win98se.  I even have a functional voodoo2 with drivers!
>>
>>
>>
>> Dont forget a program to slow down the PC or WC 1 and 2 will be 
>> unplayable. I remember the first time i tried WC 2 on a Celeron 400, 
>> damn that was fast, hehe.
>>
>> And the only Wing Commander which need the voodoo 2 is Wing Commander 
>> Prophecy or not?
>>
>> Markus
> 
> 
> You could always use DOSBox... All the early WC games work fine on it, 
> so there's no need to keep an old PC around anymore.
> 
> http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Patryk

dosbox is a commendable effort to keep the older games alive.  Its 
problem is in the graphics emulation.  Vesa graphics just doesn't cut 
for me for WC and the sound emul is still a bit weak.  For WC III, WCIV, 
WCP, the voodoo 2 is the way to go using a real soundblaster card; 
dx/d3d just wasn't very good back when these games were out. The PC I 
built from odd parts, other peoples discards, is a kick-ass state of the 
art system for 1995 ($50 total):
Intel PII400, 440BX chipset
128MB
ELSA TNT2 32MB AGP
STB voodoo2
SB PCI128
20GB HD
DOS 6.22, Win98se, Slackware Linux 10

Just the thing to run WC - and I don't have to fight to get an DOS 
emulator running (I have MAME32, N64, Sega Genesis emuls running on it 
as well).  I ran WCP in WIn98 and Win2K with a Geforce DDR, ad later 
with a G4ti4800, and the graphics qual is not as good as with the 
voodoo2 and some graphics setting are not available (eg lens flare). 
I used a glide to OPENGL wrapper as well in win2k but the wrapper is 
prone to crash.

Besides, the kids can use it to surf, IM and do homework so they don't 
hog my main system!