I know this isn't what you're asking for (for multiple reasons), but I'd go buy it at http://www.gog.com/gamecard/wing_commander_1_2. You get both games and all 4 expansions.

dougrm wrote:

I know this isn't what you're asking for (for multiple reasons), but I'd go buy it at http://www.gog.com/gamecard/wing_commander_1_2. You get both games and all 4 expansions.

I also recommend this!

Then just steal the INSTALL.EXE from your version, because the GOG.com version is missing this 😀

This allows you to change the sound options.

rjsummer,

as you have taken the old school, real hardware way, do not bother with GoG, mixing wine and water... I might be able to help you restore the install disks. (If this fails but most of the data can be rescued from the install disks, save the stickers and get some 1.44 floppies of the same color.)
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Thanks for the offer to help Jolaes76, PM sent. As for the other replies, I have a friend with the GOG version but the files, although the same names mostly, as my floppys, the file sizes are different. I dont know what they did to the files to make the game run in a DOS box, but it wont work on my vintage 386. Besides, all in all, i'd like to keep my vintage game disks running. It's my experience that if you take a bad sectored floppy and format it, I come back clean. Then I can rewrite from a good image file and the floppy is good as new. Thats my experience with a set of floppys I have with Win3.11. This of course doesnt apply to physical damage, just old age it seems.

Thanks to Jolaes76, with his help, my origin floppys are restored, and the game is working perfectly again!! Thanks, couldn't have done it without you.

Yeah, it's a shame the old archive of PAR files to allow the restoration of disks didn't work out.

Ya, what I'm doing now for ALL my floppys is to read the good disks with Winimage, and back all the images up to a CD disc for future disk repair/restorations.

rjsummer wrote:

Ya, what I'm doing now for ALL my floppys is to read the good disks with Winimage, and back all the images up to a CD disc for future disk repair/restorations.

I went through a similar exercise a couple years ago. Fortunately, even most of my 25+ year old 5.25" floppies still worked fine!

I recently just went through the same process of backing up all my 3½ floppies (about 800+) to IMZ files. No, I didn't do it all in one session but it was a project that's been a decade waiting to complete.

I have so much stuff from the BBS era that probably can't be found anymore so I wanted to preserve it.

Categorizing it all? Heh, that's a separate project but at least it's all backed up.

Oddly the diskettes that gave me problems backing up were originals that weren't copy protected. I guess cheap floppy media was used by most commercial software companies for mastering since copies of originals I had backed up fine.

FYI the Wing Commander 1 that I have is the 5¼, 3 disk version. I don't have the disks anymore or a 5¼ drive for that matter but when I did I copied all the contents of the disks to a directory and that's how I run it in DOSBOX.