Some years ago during the win98/me age there was a recreation of the original XWing and Tie FIghter from DOS into a Win app that used real 3D textured graphics and had some extra stages, plus all text was chatty now. Well once 2K/XP came up apparantly it pitched a bitch usually in XW and 100% Tie would fail.

If you are mising these games and have THIS version (2 Disc package) then if you go over to http://www.lucasfiles.com they have a fix. Just install the game(s) and run the patcher. Been playing Tie for a few hours now with zero issues... damn I missed that game... Still THE best Star Wars combat flight sim made with XW taking a cozy 2nd.

of tie fighter, and you're right it's one fine game. I remember, I used to show off the intro to everyone to show them my computer could run that hot shit!


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My brother had this party light thing... you could tune 3 differently colored lights to flash reacting to a single frequency.

So I tuned it so one light would flash with different events (firing lasers, getting hit, and random for music). I would play Tie Fighter in the dark with the speakers behind me to get some kind of cheap surround effect.

It was amazing. There's a game that would be great to remake. :-)




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3 100w lights, red for bass, green for mid and yellow for high. Unfortunately, only worked on 8ohms stereo system and I only had a 4ohm, so I kinda broke it, the 3 lights all flashed at the sime time, no difference.

I got this from my cousin in a trade, he got my 2400bps modem ;) Those were the days indeed


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> It was amazing. There's a game that would be great to remake. :-)
>

That's what the version I have is, unless you meant some random freeware remake of it. This is kinda like the UrQuan Masters update, but official in that it kept all the original materials from various versions, but then went with more modern 3D for the inflight, added a few extra campaigns, and made it all talkie. If you could find it now, probably be (new from a company) like $20, ebay probably less.

Thank you for pointing to this. I guess I'll have to kill another mouse replaying these.

I wonder if there's any page with a big monster list of old classic games (DOS, Amiga, whatever) which have a new port/remake/engine for modern OSes, I know of some possibilities like ScummVM, that Sierra one (which I'll have to get one of these days), I'm playing The Ur-Quan Masters now, but I'd like a list to see if some of my old favorites can be replayed in ports today.

I'd like Starglider for example, I can't get DOSBox to play it very well...

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> > It was amazing. There's a game that would be great to remake. :-)
> >
>
> That's what the version I have is, unless you meant some random freeware remake
> of it. This is kinda like the UrQuan Masters update, but official in that it
> kept all the original materials from various versions, but then went with more
> modern 3D for the inflight, added a few extra campaigns, and made it all talkie.
> If you could find it now, probably be (new from a company) like $20, ebay
> probably less.
>
>

Could you elaborate on this upgrade? I remember seeing some replacement models and textures for X-Wing Alliance, but nothing for X-W or TIE. Never seen any bonus missions aside from the extra campaign exclusive to the TIE CD versions.

Well Pi, there is a 'remake' of Maniac Mansion called the same name with Deluxe tacked on the end. Fully freeware and downloadable. Don't recall where from, but using those 3 words in " " on the google site would do it quick.

> Could you elaborate on this upgrade? I remember seeing some replacement models
> and textures for X-Wing Alliance, but nothing for X-W or TIE. Never seen any
> bonus missions aside from the extra campaign exclusive to the TIE CD versions.
>

Well everything in the game is spoken now from the transitions, mission briefings (and all other chatter in the options when asking other questions in there), and the old original in flight too. Visually everything in flight has been redone aside from still using the original cockpit and 'side of your ship' art. All the ships and so on are redone using full 3D models with (for that year) supremely beautiful texture work (it's no rogue squadron 2, but it's nice.) The audio has been refiltered and boosted from what I can tell as it's richer, louder, and clearer. And as far as missions go I can't recall how far the repacked TIE CD went, but Tie has 10 campaigns now on this box set, and I think XWing has all it's addons through B-Wing and a bit new added too for length (since tie was longer.)

That's about it off the top of my head as it's been like 3+years because XP was an ass and I hadn't played it a bit before that when using 98se.

I thought you were talking about some sort of upgrade to the win98 versions for some reason. Too many X-wing/TIE games out to keep track of... They were repackaged so many times. From what I remember, X-Wing didn't get any new missions, just tweaked some of the ones from the floppy version that were too hard or tended to have broken objectives (I think the floppy version had a patch for this).

I never have been able to get back into X-Wing ever since playing TIE. TIE's expanded targeting controls made missions sooooo much easier; you could easily target a ship attacking your target, view a target's shield and hull strength, or see a target's objective. Not having that info made it almost impossible to beat some missions for me without a strat guide for X-Wing.