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  • 22

    Mar

    This is a reminder that we have another fun #Wingnut movie night planned on Discord this evening! The ongoing theme will be movies that inspired Wing Commander in some way. Tonight's film is Planet of the Apes (1968) which was a reference for the Kilrathi costumes made for Wing Commander III. You can find details on that as well as how to watch along with us in the announcement post here. The movie will start about 7 PM PST/10 PM EST but feel free to drop by and hang any time!

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  • 13

    Jun

    Mac is back with more lore! This time he's taking on the very complicated subject of the F-90 Hellcat V medium fighter, the middle-of-the-road ship that kicks off both Wing Commander III and Wing Commander IV "prepped, primed, loaded, locked and ready to kick some ass." As always, Mac has created literally oodles of cool animation to show off the ship… and his fantastic presentation and serious treatment of Wing Commander's lore is already converting casual observerse to our universe! You can find the Hellcat video here (embedded below) and be sure to check out Mac's previous work here.

  • 12

    Jun

  • 29

    Mar

    We're improving the Warrior King experience! If you familiar, back in 1996 the USA Network had a totally unexpected cartoon crossover: a newly created character, the Warrior King, traveled through an ongoing story across all four of their action-oriented kids shows: Street Fighter, Savage Dragon, Mortal Kombat and finally Wing Commander Academy. Over the years, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat and Wing Commander have all been released on home video... but Savage Dragon has not.

    Years ago, I tracked down an off-air dub and digitized it so we would be able to watch the complete story. Then came Peacock, which offered Savage Dragon (and Wing Commander Academy) for streaming. Sadly, that was short lived and Savage Dragon isn't online for commercial streaming anymore. Luckily, I recorded the crossover episode from Peacock so we now have a significantly cleaner copy! Download it here (477M).

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  • 01

    Feb

    This is a reminder that we have another fun #Wingnut movie night planned on Discord this evening! The ongoing theme will be movies that inspired Wing Commander in some way. Tonight's film is An American Werewolf in Paris (1997) which was shot in the same factory as Wing Commander, used the same production company and took advantage of the same tax dodge! You can find details on that as well as how to watch along with us in the announcement post here. The movie will start about 7 PM PST/10 PM EST but feel free to drop by and hang any time!

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  • 14

    Jul

  • 21

    Jun

    This is a reminder that we have another fun #Wingnut movie night planned on Discord this evening! The ongoing theme will be movies that inspired Wing Commander in some way. Tonight's film is Firefox which was the origin of the original design for Wing Commander's Rapier fighter. You can find details on that as well as how to watch along with us in the announcement post here. The movie will start about 7 PM PST/10 PM EST but feel free to drop by and hang any time!

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  • 16

    May

  • 26

    Apr

    My teenaged self would never have believed this but piracy is one of the major forces in preserving our history! Case in point: these screenshots compare two copies of the Wing Commander movie. The first is the commercially available bluray and the second is taken from a recording of the movie as it aired on TV with a Farsi dub! Seeing Wing Commander in another language is pretty cool but there's also something more exciting here: compare the top and the bottom of the two pictures. While the dubbed TV copy is much lower quality it's also clearly taken from an "open matte" version of the film not often seen. As a result, you get to see the entire frame without the 'black bars'.

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    We'll be on the lookout for more unusual versions of the movie wherever we can find them! You can download the full video here.

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    Apr

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    Apr

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    Mar

  • 14

    Jun

    This is a reminder that we have another fun #Wingnut movie night planned on Discord this evening! The ongoing theme will be movies that inspired Wing Commander in some way… except this week in which the movie did not inspire Wing Commander in any way. Tonight's film is Showgirls and you can find details on why we're watching it in the announcement post here. You can find details on that as well as how to watch along with us in the announcement post here. The movie will start about 7 PM PST/10 PM EST but feel free to drop by and hang any time!

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  • 18

    Jun

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    May

  • 26

    Apr

    This is a reminder that we have another fun #Wingnut movie night planned on Discord this evening! The ongoing theme will be movies that inspired Wing Commander in some way. Tonight's film is Aliens (1986) which was a favorite of series creator Chris Roberts when he was working on the first game. You can find details on that as well as how to watch along with us in the announcement post here. The movie will start about 7 PM PST/10 PM EST but feel free to drop by and hang any time!

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  • 14

    Mar

  • 21

    Aug

    FekLeyrTarg has a beautiful remaster to share with fellow Wingnuts today. He's gone through the Wing Commander Academy game soundtrack and overhauled it with an SC-55 sound font. This is described as giving the game the "Kilrathi Saga treatment" based on the digital audio enhancements that those games received. He's matched up the new tracks with the appropriate in-game clips in a wonderful YouTube vid below. You can also separately download the new album in MP3 (18 meg zip) or WAV (131 meg zip).

    Happy 25th Birthday Wing Commander CIC!

    What if the PC game "Wing Commander Academy" (not to be confused with the animated TV-series) received a Windows port like the "Kilrathi Saga" version of "Wing Commander I" and "Wing Commander II - Vengeance of the Kilrathi" and George Oldziey re-orchestrated the music again? Find out in this video.

    To render each music track with Patch93's Roland SC-55 soundfont in

  • 14

    Jul

    Meet Cute