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Lex Gray wrote:
> Do the "Slowed Down" versions of WCI and WCII that occur naturally in the
> dense underbrush of Wing Commander: The Kilrathi Saga *actually* run bye
> todays standards (Win ME) and if so, do they run at 500% speed?

If you don't happen to have some hardware incompatibility that hinders 
the slowdown mechanism to work (mostly soundcard related), then yes, KS 
will run at about 100% speed.
Some problems with WinXP however.

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I found both WC1 and WC2 runs at normal speed in WinXP on an overclocked 
P4-2.7ghz machine.  The problem I ran into is when I installed the secret 
missions and special operations add-ons.  They replace the exe, and 
although the game ran close to normal speed, I had sound/music issues.

So for about $40, I got a p200 machine, now dedicated to my older dos 
games like Strike Commander and Privateer 1.  Its also setup for dualboot 
with win98se, where I have Privateer 2 and WC1/WC2 running just great 
(even with my Cougar joystick/throttle)!!



Karl Frank <ka...@karl.frank.name> wrote in
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> Lex Gray wrote:
>> Do the "Slowed Down" versions of WCI and WCII that occur naturally in
>> the dense underbrush of Wing Commander: The Kilrathi Saga *actually*
>> run bye todays standards (Win ME) and if so, do they run at 500%
>> speed? 
> 
> If you don't happen to have some hardware incompatibility that hinders
> the slowdown mechanism to work (mostly soundcard related), then yes,
> KS will run at about 100% speed.
> Some problems with WinXP however.
> 
> --
> There are only 10 kinds of people who understand binary digits:
> Those who do, and
> Those who don't.
>                                               Gerhard H Wrodnigg
> [Delete the karl after the @ to avoid my spam trap]
> 
> 

Wow; let me know if you see a machine perfect out there for such things ;)
I'll keep my eye out on e-bay for somethung under $100.

But, yeah, I'm not sure about that. The specs, I mean. I guess an old Sound
Blaster 16 would be best for a machine set up all of the above, but wouldn't
Privateer 2 lose something? Tough one. What're you using for Privateer II?

"Mr G" <M...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> I found both WC1 and WC2 runs at normal speed in WinXP on an overclocked
> P4-2.7ghz machine.  The problem I ran into is when I installed the secret
> missions and special operations add-ons.  They replace the exe, and
> although the game ran close to normal speed, I had sound/music issues.
>
> So for about $40, I got a p200 machine, now dedicated to my older dos
> games like Strike Commander and Privateer 1.  Its also setup for dualboot
> with win98se, where I have Privateer 2 and WC1/WC2 running just great
> (even with my Cougar joystick/throttle)!!
>
>
>
> Karl Frank <ka...@karl.frank.name> wrote in
> news:96676...@news.ainet.at:
>
> > Lex Gray wrote:
> >> Do the "Slowed Down" versions of WCI and WCII that occur naturally in
> >> the dense underbrush of Wing Commander: The Kilrathi Saga *actually*
> >> run bye todays standards (Win ME) and if so, do they run at 500%
> >> speed?
> >
> > If you don't happen to have some hardware incompatibility that hinders
> > the slowdown mechanism to work (mostly soundcard related), then yes,
> > KS will run at about 100% speed.
> > Some problems with WinXP however.
> >
> > --
> > There are only 10 kinds of people who understand binary digits:
> > Those who do, and
> > Those who don't.
> >                                               Gerhard H Wrodnigg
> > [Delete the karl after the @ to avoid my spam trap]
> >
> >
>

Lex Gray wrote:

> But, yeah, I'm not sure about that. The specs, I mean. I guess an old Sound
> Blaster 16 would be best for a machine set up all of the above, but wouldn't
> Privateer 2 lose something? Tough one. What're you using for Privateer II?

I use an ancient AWE32. But a SB16 should do almost as well. Just make 
sure it is ISA and not PCI.

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