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It also shows where the ship's McDonalds is located as well as pointing out that a lot of the detailing on the ship is "meaningless".
Although, I do giggle at the "diesel fuel" and "sharp end" notes. It's a cute drawing, overall.
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I still have my special CD edition of TIE Fighter but I CAN'T FREAKIN' PLAY IT ON MY COMPUTER!
Well, why not? Works fine in XP, with a small amount of finagling. You just have to use the right compatability mode and copy just the right file from the CD onto your hard drive.
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(I picked up the 1994 CD edition of X-Wing the other day, and it runs without so much as a hitch under Windows 2000, bizarrely enough.)
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quote:Originally posted by Omega: I still have my special CD edition of TIE Fighter but I CAN'T FREAKIN' PLAY IT ON MY COMPUTER!
Well, why not? Works fine in XP, with a small amount of finagling. You just have to use the right compatability mode and copy just the right file from the CD onto your hard drive.
Care to educate me? I can't remember how far I got with it the last time, but I think I was able to get in but there was no sound, or the actual flight part wouldn't start, or something. I may have to try this again.
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Unfortunately, I don't remember specifically how I got Tie Fighter running. It's been over a year. But I remember it involving compatability mode and copying a particular file or two...
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I've seen that. I have also since discovered that there are two different versions of the tie fighter collector's edition cd. The above is for the version created for Windows 95. Mine is the strictly DOS version.
I tried installing and running it last night, and everything runs perfectly except the sound and joystick, neither of which I can get working. (Remember that ASCII text sound setup screen?) I also tried using DOSBox, but it ran much worse. The joystick worked, but there was no sound, and the framerate was about 1 per second.
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"X-Wing: Alliance" can play in 1024x768, after I'd finished it I couldn't go back to TIE Fighter and 640x480, no way.
I still have my B6M3GW.TIE and PIETT.TFR file in my "Games\Saves" folder, though. It's been with me for 12 years. Last time I checked I was General and had about 1.2 million points. It was the special edition of "TIE Fighter" with all the extra levels and that little ugly Gunboat bomber thing with the afterburner. I think I'd finished 12 out of 14 campaigns. In the last campaign I did, there was a female pirate leader I was supposed to make war on.
This reminds me, my favorite ship name in Star Wars is "ISD Ardent". Not just because of the nice word, she saved my ass many times.
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Ohhhh. Yeah, you ain't gettin' a USB joystick working for a DOS game outside of an emulator. Have you tried DOSBox since November? I gather they've made some large improvements in the most recent release.
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