I hate those GOG Games, because they will not run on the Original Hardware. Well, sorry to say, but that is not their intended purpose. It's specifically to run on modern systems. That being said, I see no reason why the X-Wing releases shouldn't run on original hardware, especially with the 3D …

Mechwarrior 3 complains that DirectX 6 needs to be installed when using dgVoodoo. Descent Freespace can't detect the dgVoodoo DX card (though you're better off using Voodoo for it anyhow, it's still good to test I suppose) X-Wing VS TIE Fighter gives "DirectDraw Init FAILED at 0" Might be related to …

1. An SC-55 (or 88) and MT-32 (but with uploadable instrument support) on one PCI-E card. For under $100. 2. Same deal for an OPL-3 Adlib card, with drivers for modern OSes to support it. 3. A dedicated MIDI editing program that works on 64-bit OSes that doesn't suck

I think even XWA does it...

Don't forget to set the brightness all the way down in the options, that's what makes the textures look so washed out in the 3D accelerated mode! It does brightness by making the textures brighter, which looks terrible, instead of making the lighting brighter.

A little off topic, but the definitive version of X-Wing is actually the Mac version. It has 640x480 software rendered graphics just like TIE's DOS CD version , but retains the iMuse music and colored polygon look. It's a shame it can't be emulated at full speed. I've often wondered if it was …

Problem is, the GoG DOS version of TIE Fighter is the floppy version, not the CD version, so this won't help. Also specifically, that patch solves the problem where the game uses Axes 3 and 4 instead of 1 and 2, and buttons 3 and 4 instead of 1 and 2 when using a joystick with 4 axes. You should try …