My first experience with WC was when WC1 first came out on DOS, but I'm curious as to why it's your preferred way of playing?

You've been able to dig pretty deep into WC1's code if you've made that many improvements. I was curious if you had any intention of seeing if you can up the resolution of either the game itself, or the max resolution of the various sprite sheets? Number of sprites per sheet/ship, res size, etc...

I don't know if this has ever been done, but if EA truly never intends to return to WC themselves, could they semi-open source it? My thought was that they would get a cut of any sales made from a retail WC game made. I'm sure the reason this hasn't been done is because a bad game will damage...

That would require EA to actually listen to people. Low chance of success. :( @Chronocidal Guy thanks for digging that up! I can't wait to watch it. :)

I have a few questions regarding the WCToolsCmd console program. BTW, I did read the readme file. I just have the brain of a potato right now. I was able to unpack SHIP.V08 but I've been unable to repack it with the updated bengal files. The new images don't follow the same file naming format...

That's really interesting! I hope they talk about WC in EA meetings. :) The fact that people are getting in touch with you out of curiosity is great!

Really? OK, I didn't entirely expect that, but I'm also... not surprised. I was thinking corporate, like, the higher ups, their legal team, things like that. I wasn't saying that towards devs, who are just gamers who love to also make games.

Thanks. I must have missed the 1 link. And I 100% agree regarding the archived code. EA and words like, kindness, or, forgiving, don't seem to go together very well. That does make me wonder, just out of curiosity, if EA even knows about the site or ever quietly take a peek at what's going on...

Odd. I thought someone here CIC said that no source code exists for... at least 1. I can't remember if they said 2 as well. That said, I thought they had been given it to hold onto for safe keeping. Tightly guarded of course.

I'm not entirely sure. Someone was doubling the res of WC1 ships as an experiment. They found that double the res was the best the engine would manage without breaking the game due to it increasing the size of the objects. I think there was also a hard coded limit for file size, or it may have...

Ahh ya I have that, but I figured that actual code was more complicated then that. Apparently not! lol For knowledge of decompiling/recompiling I bet you have the most knowledge on that. Were you able to do decompile WC1 or 2 completely for modification and then recompiling? Or if not, do you...

Actually, what I meant was, you could use voices from WC2 in WC1.

Thanks for the kind words. :) What about the voice audio used in WC2 for in flight coms? There would be gaps of course, but a several pilots from WC1 appear in WC2. For those that didn't, if the Super Wing Commander voices aren't worth using, I think any alternative would work since we don't...

Really interesting. I figured it had to be something along those lines, but I had no idea of the specifics. I'd say that the FSO engine is probably the closest "ready to go" engine out there, which can now do crazy things it couldn't do a decade ago, but sadly it wasn't really made with "moving...

As an "old timer" I have this deep seeded love of the look of WC1 & 2. They followed what looks to be a system similar to SNES games that used that special chip that allowed 2D sprites to be manipulated in game to give the illusion of a 3D world. I guess the first Mario Kart would probably be...