WC3 Memory Glitch Got A Clever Cover Up

    [feedquote='Wing Commander News','http://www.wcnews.com/index.shtml#14008']There’s a well known

    anecdote

    from the development of WC1 that talks about how an error message when quitting the game was changed to “Thank you for playing Wing Commander.” That story now has a sequel thanks to

    a tweet

    by WC3 programmer

    Robin Todd

    ! In this case, there was a random crash that was changed to resemble a CD-ROM error. Apparently blaming the new-fangled optical technology was an easy solution, and, fortunately, this error was never prolific and didn’t negatively affect the player experience. It makes a great bit of trivia now!

    on Wing Commander 3 we had random memory crash. no time to fix. we re-wrote DOS error table so resulting output would be "CD-ROM read error"

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