Originally posted by: RRS-1980
I'm very glad to see another fan of the classic SW spacesims! I've wasted endless hours (days? months? LOL) playing them... in fact it was "X-Wing" what reminded me of Star Wars back in 1993... looks like you truly deserve to use my avatar

Thanks, the board won't let me upload mine so I will try to change it again later.

Originally posted by: tiefighter
The difference with those Windows games is that none of them use the nifty iMUSE system that gave the originals the dynamic MIDI soundtrack.

Yeah, that was a huge step back and they couldn't fix it until the mp3 format started to be used in the games. Did anyone else noted that it always took about a second for the CD drive to switch to victory/defeat track? I always dreaded that "jump" while in flight...

Another thing I miss was the grayness of the starships etc. That black/white feeling from Empire Strikes Back. Later on with the introduction of textures and colored light sources everything became too colorful to be "starwarsy".

I agree that the old games even look better because of the lack of overblown graphics like in todays games. I have been collecting vintage joysticks and such from eBay and even scored a copy of the Macintosh versions of Tie and X-Wing Collector's CD-ROMs. So naturally I had to buy a Macintosh to play them on. Picked up a Blue and White G3 for like $55.00 shipped. I think this is the last Mac with ADB, so I can use the Flightstick Pro, or Thrustmaster FCS/WCS. The Macintosh versions seem to have slightly better graphics detail in the concourse area. One day I may have time to actually play the games . . .