Fascinating numbers, especially the variations between fighters and capital ships. Thank you for assembling them all. However, there's something odd among the capital ship weapons. Does the WC1 engine really contain the Anti-Matter Gun statistics listed in the spreadsheet and the screenshot...

It's good to know I wasn't the first person to think that. These airplanes may not have flown in space, but they came close. Their capsules, and the Vostok ejection seat, remain the closest thing to spacecraft ejection systems yet built. Thank you for all the pictures of the XB-70 pod, that's...

Can we talk about the encounter between Thrakhath, Ralgha and Blair in Wing Commander 2: Special Operations 1? The writers presumably didn't have the personality overlay story, so they had the Bonnie Heather suffer a random power outage so Thrakhath can escape. But given the events in Wing...

In WC1 and WC2, we also know from the interior hand animation that our Blair isn't wearing gloves... I see the similarity in shape of the Prophecy pod to the Space Shuttle Personal Rescue Enclosure, but the latter is made of fabric. Given the texturing, is it likely that the Prophecy artists...

I hope you found the spreadsheet from Bandit LOAF useful, although it may have been disappointing if you wanted to compare every fighter and weapon from every game on a standard scale. Any accurate information about the games has been found by decoding the game files. The games came with...

Congratulations on completing WC1 by saving the day at the last possible moment, through some of the least played missions in the entire saga. Yes, in several series you can fail one mission and still win the series if you are exceptionally good at the other two. While there has been...

You can play every mission and experience every cutscene in WC1 in two playthroughs, although if you want the experience of winning every mission you will have to backtrack in a few places. Here is the mission tree. Note how in a few places a success or failure can move you "sideways" in the...

In a few narrowly defined cases, a light fighter would win. But of the Wing Commander series are programmed so that this won't happen. They are games, and they are meant to be fun. To make them fun, the "Artificial Intelligence" is quite lacking on the intelligence side. There are two volumes of...

Great arrangement, but may I suggest a change of attribution? While George "The Fatman" Sanger did work and musical direction, he has always credited Dave Govett as composer of the Wing Commander I theme. For example, in the description of the Wing Commander I album on Bandcamp: I'm not sure...

Do we know who created the Bloodfang used in the demo? It looks like the same rendering style as the WC1 ships, so was it Mary Bellis on the Amiga with Sculpt3D? (No, it was Colonel Mustard in the Conservatory with the Candlestick.) I'd be even more interested to know when Origin requested...

Is the Credits video going to link to this story about adding the text and blur on every individual frame? Although it flickers into focus for a frame occasionally, as seen below in the third frame below. Most likely someone missed that step, but it could be an intentional artistic choice.

That's a fantastic amount of detail. It's probably not easy to do this given the Wiki page layout, but would there be a way to put the transcript in a separate scrolling box under the video, so we can read it while the video plays? I can barely make out 1 word in 10 in most of the Privateer 2...

I took a lot of damage in WC4, but if I got home at all my fighter usually looked like the second pictures, not the third. I hadn't realised how much work they put into redrawing the ships with entire fins ripped off... I also remember how they might not have had cockpit graphics, but they did...

Am I interested in absurdly detailed digging through Wing Commander asset files? Of course I am. Thank you for all the work making that atlas in the knowledge that someone was guaranteed to ask about them. Are there only 3 columns in the WC2 sheet because it only supported 3 sky objects, or the...

Thank you for the correction, and my apologies to the WC2 programmers for underestimating them. Interesting further detail: the background shifts slightly between the middle and closeup. So WC2 is not just drawing the skybox at an arbitrary angle, there's some thought about which direction each...

I know that third shot also appeared on the original WC2 box, but it too is quite distant from the final game. Here are some screenshots (specifically from SO2, but these scenes are using WC2 art assets). Here is the background of the Concordia bridge, from MEDIUM.V00. The characters come...

Yes, the most common variation was that some games defaulted to Interrupt Request 7, I assume because some cards shipped with the jumpers set that way. If configured wrong, a game would normally play its first sound effect, then freeze. If I understand Interrupts correctly, the card would send a...

I have a yellow CD with the exact same titles as the blue one above. Also, some intellectual property lawyer took the time to add ™️ and ® to all the titles. Some DOS games required that you have an environment variable called "BLASTER" defined in order to know the which DMA and Interrupt to...

[Starting as a separate post because I seemed to have exceeded a limit on the number of pictures in a single post.] 8. How flat was the landscape? Computers in the 1990s struggled to draw much of a landscape, leading to flat areas with occasional patches of color. These are from Falcon 3.0 and...

Almost no games are "lost". Almost every game that saw commercial release has an entry on MobyGames and some dedicated person posting Let's Play videos to YouTube. We can narrow it down. But we need you to help. 1. How did you start it? Did you type a command into DOS? Click on an icon in...