X-Wing, TIE Fighter 95 Fixed, Lego Yoda Revealed

Swifti writes "Ever since Windows XP was released, the classic games, TIE Fighter 95 and X-Wing 95 [the X-Wing Collector Series and X-Wing Trilogy versions of X-Wing & TIE Fighter], were left incompatible with the new operating system. The issue refused to be addressed by LucasArts whose basic solution was 'Deal with it.' Luckily, a fix was recently released for these two PC games over at LucasFiles, obviously made by a fan. These great games are now compatible with NT/2000/XP systems." Elsewhere, an anonymous reader points to a movie-annotated fan report on the previously mentioned "LEGO Star Wars game being demo'ed" at last week's Comic-Con, including footage of a whirlin' Lego Yoda.

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Fond memories..

[Taulin]

I met one of my best friends because of X-Wing. He was playing a mission over and over and over again... His dormroom door was open when I walked by, and I just had to know WTF he was doing. Being an Amiga man myself, I was overcome, and just had to get a PC. Thanks Lucas Games!

Doesn't work, at least with the original DOS games

[Hamster Lover]

The only fix that does work for the original DOS based Tie Fighter and Xwing, at least for my system, was to turn all sound off.

I also have the Windows versions of Xwing and Tie Fighter called the "Collector's CD-ROM" and while I love the graphics and sound updates of these versions, I detest the fact that mouse support was removed so I have never attempted to install either on my Win XP system.

If I recall correctly, there are three versions of Xwing and Tie Fighter released in this order: the original DOS based games and their separate add ons released on floppy disks, the DOS floppy games re-released on CD-ROM with CD-ROM music and the "Collector's CD-ROM" with revamped graphics and music (including all the later add ons) intended to run under Windows. I think I have that right. Someone correct me if I am wrong, please.

Anyway, the patch only works on the last version, the "Collector's CD-ROM". Try turning the sound off if you can't get the original DOS version that came on floppy disks to work (due to extended/expanded memory problems).

FYI

and better cutscenes

[SmallFurryCreature]

perhaps it was because they could only do very basic animation (in fact really like animation, move images along each other to create motion) that they really had to think about it. But I enjoyed the cut-scenes in X-wing and tie-fighter a hell of a lot more then in later lucasarts games.

Oh well just call me an old dinosaur who can't keep up with modern times. Except one tiny little problem Lucasarts. I BOUGHT all the old games. Now I don't anymore because while I now have far more money coming in I think your games are not worthy of me spending money anymore. Should lucasarts care? Only in so far as any company should care about losing a once loyal customer.