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Title: Installing WC1 Deluxe with DosBox
Post by: Scooby_Doo on May 30, 2007, 12:43:05 am

How do you install Wing Commander 1 Deluxe cd (with secret missions 1 and 2)? It complains it needs Dos 3.3 or above to install.  The installation method is slightly different than those posted on CIC.


Bleh, WC3 crashes Dosbox when i try to install it.

Title: Re: Installing WC1 Deluxe with DosBox
Post by: Mustang19 on May 30, 2007, 10:05:20 am

Can't offer much help, I've never played either game. But I believe WC3 was made for Windows.

My advice: Go to your local thrift store and buy a $10 Win95.

Title: Re: Installing WC1 Deluxe with DosBox
Post by: Colonol Dekker on May 30, 2007, 10:31:53 am

HAve you tried getting the ROms and a Snes emulator?
I find em both to be quality. (i had the orignal carts though :D )

Title: Re: Installing WC1 Deluxe with DosBox
Post by: gyp5sy on May 30, 2007, 05:07:06 pm

Hrmm...  I have not noticed a lot of problems when using DosBox and WC1.  The latest DosBox has a lot more automatic settings, but I can't seem to get the sound working for that one.

Could you post the link to the instructions you are talking about?  I'll take a look and see if I'm doing anything different.

Title: Re: Installing WC1 Deluxe with DosBox
Post by: Scooby_Doo on May 30, 2007, 05:09:21 pm

Got it, i had to manually copy the game over. 

Instructions are on CIC, but they only mention WC1, so1, so2 not WC1 & so1 & so2 (the deluxe cd vesion)

Title: Re: Installing WC1 Deluxe with DosBox
Post by: Javito1986 on June 11, 2007, 10:19:18 pm

Go to the Tech Support forum on the Wing Commander CIC. They're really great about helping people with this sort of thing. In fact, this is the only kind of question anyone ever has.

Title: Re: Installing WC1 Deluxe with DosBox
Post by: Scooby_Doo on June 11, 2007, 10:23:52 pm

The tech info on CIC was about the regular WC1 and not the deluxe, however you could pull the necessary info from it.

I managed to play through up to the destroy the destroyer, and quit.  After playing just one mission I end up with a nasty headache.  :sigh:

Title: Re: Installing WC1 Deluxe with DosBox
Post by: jr2 on June 12, 2007, 12:38:19 am

Eh, try using Virtual PC 2007 (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx).
I've had pretty good luck with it.. as long as the game doesn't require an accelerator, it should be fine.

Component  Virtual machine emulated hardware 
BIOS
 AMI BIOS
 
Chipset
 Intel 440BX
 
Sound card
 Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 ISA Plug and Play

Note

Virtual PC provides support for sound that is compatible with Windows Vista™. On virtual machines that run Windows Vista as a guest operating system, SoundBlaster is not available.


 
Network adapter (multi-function)
 DEC 21140A 10/100
 
Video card
 S3 Trio 32/64 PCI with 8 MB Video RAM
 
EDIT: You get to select the amount of RAM available yourself, based on how much you actually have in your system.  (I have 2 GB!  XD )

Title: Re: Installing WC1 Deluxe with DosBox
Post by: gyp5sy on June 13, 2007, 11:18:16 pm

Always wanted to know if there was any kind of speed-regulation built in to VPC at this point.  You happen to know?

That's been my main barrier in using it, to this point.  Besides, the newer dosbox works much much better than VPC using DOS.

Title: Re: Installing WC1 Deluxe with DosBox
Post by: Scooby_Doo on June 13, 2007, 11:41:22 pm

Maybe it's the fact I could never get the speed absolutely correct, that causes wc1 to give me such a headache

Title: Re: Installing WC1 Deluxe with DosBox
Post by: gyp5sy on June 15, 2007, 02:45:46 am

The latest DosBox has an "automatic" setting that I've been mighty impressed by.  Can even run stuff that I couldn't find the correct settings for before.