Yesterday evening I noticed Wing Commander III Heart of the Tiger can now be downloaded for free on Origin. Just thought there may be some of you who'd like to know...
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nice, thanks for the heads-up! 😀
Cool! Downloading it. Anyone know more details?
DRM? Does it use DOSBox or a Windows client? 3x CD images or a single DVD image? Different to the GOG.com version?
Ships with DOSBox 0.73 😒
It's got the screen flashes between videos and the tearing.
Also uses a DVD image DATA.DAT just like the GOG.com release.
Easy to extract and play in a newer DOSBox or burn the image to DVD and play it on a DOS machine.
Can you actually use DVD's on DOS machines? I never knew that...
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wrote:Can you actually use DVD's on DOS machines? I never knew that...
Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1kD567PuFQ
It's my Wing Commander III (GOG.com Version) DOSBox / MS-DOS Installation and Tweak Guide.
I show how to make the iso, burn it, install and configure the game. The whole works 😀
Win95c's startup disk even has a DVD device driver.
Any advantage over the CD version?
Other then being able to run it from 1 disk?
wrote:Any advantage over the CD version?
Other then being able to run it from 1 disk?
I doubt it but don't really know...
Having a DVD copy too is nice, I guess.
Thanks for the heads up.
Also the Origin PDF manual, is a scan of the CD manual, after someone put it through the dryer. As just wow are those scans in bad shape, unless they were deliberately Photoshopped to look like that.
