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Tancred · 02-13-2004, 05:37 PM

Gamewise I felt it lacked something compared to WC3 and even Prophecy, but in terms of storytelling and plot it was excellent. Better than the Star Wars films. Light years ahead of the Wing Commander movie. In fact, I think WCIV had a bigger budget in terms of special effects and actors... I mean, Freddie Prinze jr. and Matthew Lillard?!? Ohhhhhh dear.

I don't know why, but for some reason you need a *natural* DOS environment to run the WC games. I had to write a custom config.sys and autoexec.bat to run while I was using Win95. You just can't do that in XP, it seems, or if you can, I haven't figured it out. Anyone got any ideas? I remember I once found on the internet a rewritten .exe file for running Frontier: First Encounters on XP... I hope someone does the same for WC, despite it being completely illegal

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02-13-2004, 05:37 PM	#8
Tancred White Dragon Join Date: April 1, 2001 Location: UK Age: 45 Posts: 1,893	Gamewise I felt it lacked something compared to WC3 and even Prophecy, but in terms of storytelling and plot it was excellent. Better than the Star Wars films. Light years ahead of the Wing Commander movie. In fact, I think WCIV had a bigger budget in terms of special effects and actors... I mean, Freddie Prinze jr. and Matthew Lillard?!? Ohhhhhh dear. I don't know why, but for some reason you need a natural DOS environment to run the WC games. I had to write a custom config.sys and autoexec.bat to run while I was using Win95. You just can't do that in XP, it seems, or if you can, I haven't figured it out. Anyone got any ideas? I remember I once found on the internet a rewritten .exe file for running Frontier: First Encounters on XP... I hope someone does the same for WC, despite it being completely illegal [ 02-13-2004, 05:41 PM: Message edited by: Tancred ] __________________ \"HELP! I\'ve superglued myself to a flaming bowling ball!\"