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Welcome to the new era of CD-ROM games! There’s an insane amount of space, so what to do with it? Oh I have an idea, let’s take top-tier actors (Mark Hamill, Jason Bernard, Thomas Wilson) throw them into the great [url=http://www.gog.com/en/catalogue/#all_genres/search/wing commander/]Wing Commander universe, develop a new engine, write an even more epic story and voila: you have Wing Commander 3: Heart of the Tiger! We’ve added this classic title to GOG.com today, available for only $5.99!

You are Luke--er--I mean Col. Christopher "Maverick" Blair (played by Mark Hamill). After the destruction of Concordia, you are transferred to an old space ship carrier the TCS Victory, by the order of Admiral Tolwyn. Your mission is to destroy the catlike Kilrathi for good and ensure the survival of humanity. Without delving into spoilers, you are up for yet another episode of this epic struggle between two star nations battling for dominance--and survival. Enter into the life of Maverick, talk to your wingmen on the ship and in outer space, or pursue a romantic relationship with a fellow pilot dancing on the razor’s edge.

With the budget of an A-grade Hollywood movie, Wing Commander 3 incorporates FMVs on a whole new level, with more than 3 hours of cinematic storytelling. They’re not there only for your viewing pleasure: you get to live the life of a Confederation ace pilot in dynamic cinematic style. Time-constrained decisions, vast dialogue options, and plot-critical conversations all occur on film during your time aboard the TCS Victory. Apart from the flashy movies, Wing Commander 3 has a whole new space combat engine. Sprites are so early 90’s, and now it’s all about polygons. Behold the colossal battle ships in their full glory, you can even fly into a dreadnought hangar and shoot it from inside out!
Wing Commander 3: Heart of the Tiger flies up to a whole new orbital with new graphics, new FMVs and, one of the best epic war plots in the history of entertainment are the ingredients for space-sim success.

Special thanks for all the great goodies we managed to get with this release goes to Ben Lesnick from Wing Commander News. You're the man, Ben!
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andrewmclaughlin: Well friend you are in luck because i am soon going to upload a video to my youtube channel explaining how to get this sucker workin'.
Thanks, that's good news. :-)
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rampancy: I remember when the 3DO was going to completely revolutionize gaming; hardware-wise it easily outgunned the other consoles of the day. Then they announced the price tag...



TiE Fighter was hands-down one of the best games I'd ever played; combined with my CH Flightstick Pro it was an awesome game, and the TiE Defender was one of the most badass vehicles I've flown/driven in a game; next of course to the Black Lance's Dragon fighters in Wing Commander 4. :)
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andrewmclaughlin: Thanks for the coment Friend. Thanks to gog i have wing commander 1, 2 and 3 but sadly i have not played wing commander 4... yet. I cant wait to play it. I have a feeling that they will release that one soon i hope.
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amix: Care to enlighten us, how you did it? Would be awesome. I have the CD, too. Thanks.
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andrewmclaughlin: Well friend you are in luck because i am soon going to upload a video to my youtube channel explaining how to get this sucker workin'. I plan to have this done by no later than the end of this week. I'll let you know the moment it goes up.
Can't wait for this :) I have tried a few times getting my Collector's Edition CD running on both XP and Win7, and always end up with problems with either DirectX, or the joystick drivers.
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andrewmclaughlin: Well friend you are in luck because i am soon going to upload a video to my youtube channel explaining how to get this sucker workin'.
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amix: Thanks, that's good news. :-)
Almost there now. I made the video but it ran a few minutes long so I have to do it over. to be honest, i've never done this before. I just know that there are more gamers like us who would do almost anything to play this title again. i'll have it done within the next 24 hours.
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andrewmclaughlin: Thanks for the coment Friend. Thanks to gog i have wing commander 1, 2 and 3 but sadly i have not played wing commander 4... yet. I cant wait to play it. I have a feeling that they will release that one soon i hope.


Well friend you are in luck because i am soon going to upload a video to my youtube channel explaining how to get this sucker workin'. I plan to have this done by no later than the end of this week. I'll let you know the moment it goes up.
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Tarkeel: Can't wait for this :) I have tried a few times getting my Collector's Edition CD running on both XP and Win7, and always end up with problems with either DirectX, or the joystick drivers.
Almost there now. I made the video but it ran a few minutes long so I have to do it over. to be honest, i've never done this before. I just know that there are more gamers like us who would do almost anything to play this title again. i'll have it done within the next 24 hours.
Post edited September 23, 2011 by andrewmclaughlin
Hello Friends

I have been getting a lot of requests to explain hoe i got my copy of Tie Fighter working properly so I hope this helps you guys. I never done this before so I apologize for the quality.

Remember you should have a legal copy of the game with you. If you contact LucasArts via email, they my even give you permission to download it. Anything is possible.

My Video Explaing How to get Tie Fighter to work on windows 7, XP and Vista is now live on youtube. please forgive the poor quality. its my first video but it should get you from point A to point B. Do a search for "How to run Tie Fighter" by "DosGaming101" and you should see it in the list. or click on this link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyfX-HDXEyg

Remember that you need to do 2 thnigs in order to get this game working properly.

1. Go to the Tie Fighter folder where you installed the game and open the "dosbox.play" file (with notepad)make one small change to the file. Scroll down to the part that looks like this.

joysticktype=auto
timed=true
autofire=false
swap34=false
buttonwrap=false

And make the following change

Replace timed=true with timed=false (Note that this works for other Origin Sims as well).

Save and exit.

2. Right after you start the game you will come to a black screen that says "press any key" at the bottom of the screen. Now BEFORE you press any key, be sure you have the joystick "Throttle" pushed all the way forward or all the way "+"

Finally press all the buttons on the joystick a few times. Then and only then can you "press any key" and start the game.

Behold the Greatest Game Ever Made ! ( Not including rpg's ) And i Know from games. I've been gaming since 1981 and i've seen some good shit in my time.

Its High time We All play a game that take more than 4 hours to complete.

Hope this helps you guys and I hope gog does not mind me doing this as I love the site and have about 20 titles in my collection and i plan to buy many many many more. I check the Homepage about 20 times a day to see any new additions and or sales. Awesome.

Now if you will excuse me I have about 450 X-Wings that Darth Vader wants me to turn into scrap !

Andrew

DosGaming101
Thanks, Andrew. That makes me going.
Happy to see this available here, and with the wealth of extras. Anyone given it a test drive in Win7 64bit yet?
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Whimper: Happy to see this available here, and with the wealth of extras. Anyone given it a test drive in Win7 64bit yet?
Yeah, the GOG guys did, hence why the compatibility on the game cards lists "Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit)".
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Whimper: Happy to see this available here, and with the wealth of extras. Anyone given it a test drive in Win7 64bit yet?
Yeah it will work no problem.