Classic Games: X-Wing

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Kloreep
I think I remember that mission. It's in one of those damn Y-Wings, right? I got it eventually. I think what I ended up doing to win the mission was keep playing till I got a perfect run. You have to be as fast as possible, and not make any time-wasting mistakes, to get all the transports. I'm afraid I don't have any real advice for this mission.

But you just gave some.

[Kloreep]

Yes, but it's nothing more than "keep playing it over until you either win or kill yourself" I have no idea how to minimize the time required to make a perfect run.

[Carolus Rex]

Originally posted by child of Thor

and i'm seeing alot of this screen currently

Looks like a funeral?

What does it take to play this game? Do you have to use emulators (I don't even know what that is???) and stuff like that? Do you have to be a tech wizard to play these older games?

There are a lot of games I'd love to play, but it seems to difficult (tech-wise) to get them to run on modern computers...

Carolus

[Kloreep]

I'm not sure what it takes to run the DOS version. There's also a Win95 version that I imagine would be easier to run.

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by ZargonX
Did you get this to run under XP? Or are you on a different platform?

For Carlos Rex also

Win98se
P166
48MB Ram
2MB cirrus logic graphics card
Trust(predetor lite) joystick
Creative AWE64 soundcard

I got the X-Wing/Tie Fighters collectors edition which i run under MS-DOS prompt from Win98.

For old games i think using old hardware helps you enjoy the game more, well atleast the games run at the right speeds with all the correct sound/music. So i spent time setting one up.

@ Kloreep - your advice was 100% correct, shame i didn't read it before now

But i finaly succeded in the mission - deciding to ignore the part of the mission briefing that said i needed to destroy all the transporters before they reached the Star Destroyer

[Carolus Rex]

I like the atmosphere of this game (judging from the pics)...

Have you "saved" that computer to be able to play old games?

Carolus

[DrSpike]

Until recently that was his main machine.

I keep an Amiga and an old 1.2 Ghz machine with Win98 for old games.

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Until recently that was his main machine.

I keep an Amiga and an old 1.2 Ghz machine with Win98 for old games.

Even if i combine the current MHz of my two pc's - they dont reach 1.2 Ghz. You must have to use software like 'Turbo' to slow that beast down for many of the older games?

@Carlos i like to think my P166 'saved' me
Its shown me many great games i would have otherwise been unable to play if i'd had a modern pc.

Even running emulation software - or things like DosBox, you get problems with the games running how they should. Sound is a big problem - modern sound cards not being able to properly emulate older cards. I find sound to be a big part of the gaming experience.

Anyway i like to remind people of the old classic games that the home computer revolution has enabled me to enjoy since the 80's.

If you do love games alot then i reckon its worth having a 'retro' machine for playing the older games on. I got mine free - many people throw them out, so keep your eyes+ears open

Star Wars is going great - its very addictive(but then being a SW fan i guess i would find it so!), and very hard at the same time. That Mission 8 i got stuck on, well it took me about 15 attempts to get through it!

On that note i found a cheesey method to remove some of the anguish of dying all the time(which happens to me quite a bit).

In the main Star Wars folder on your harddrive create a new folder, call it something like 'charbackup' and after a sucesfull mission copy your pilots character file into it. This way if you die just copy/paste it back to carry on where you left of.

If you don't do this, when you die/get captured it is possible to ressurect your char, but you lose all your combat experience+rank

time for another pic! This one i see far too often also.

[child of Thor]

Shortly followed by this

[Frankychan]

Kick a** pics! Man, I wish I could play X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter again. I dunno, I rarely used Rebel scum ships. I'm more of an Imperial pilot. But when I did use Rebel ships I liked the A-Wing cause that little ship could haul a**. It was a little underpowered, weaponwise, but I could run rings around the other ships.

Is the B-Wing that one that looks like a lower-case 't'? Where the cockpit is on one of the ships arms?

Anyway my favorite ship was the TIE defender, best of everything for the Imps. Shoot, I remember one time I was dogfighting against my friend and we both agreed to use TIE-lns. His joystick was broken and I could tell cause his TIE was shaking like crazy. I was taking potshots at him and he kept saying "Don't Shoot! Don't Shoot!" His TIE started shaking to the point where you would think the ship would actually fly apart. I got tired of seeing him suffer so I put him out of his misery and blew his ship up.

He was cool though cause he later said on his screen at home the whole view was jittering and shaking and it was getting him sick.

[Kuciwalker]

Is the B-Wing that one that looks like a lower-case 't'? Where the cockpit is on one of the ships arms?

Yes.

[Whoha]

I liked the CheeseBoat myself.

[Carolus Rex]

Love the picture with Darth Vader and the two imperial troopers!

I was about to ask you how to get hold of an old computer... Eyes and ears opened!

DrSpike,

1.2 Ghz is old?! I have a Pentium III 550 Mhz and I'm thinking about upgrading to something like that...

Carolus

[Gamecube64]

Originally posted by Whoha
I liked the CheeseBoat myself.

I assume this is the Gunboat?

[Boris Godunov]

X-Wing was great, but TIE Fighter is the undisputable champ of the SW space simulator games. It had a great story line, awesome missions and was just incredibly fun to play.