Star Wars: TIE Fighter
October 9th, 2010 16:00 by ogrimThe best flight simulator of all time is set in space. It was released in 1994. Upgraded in 1995, and once more in 1998. I am of course talking about TIE Fighter. The version I’m currently playing is the release from 1998, which feature the best graphics. Sadly it is missing the characteristic MIDI-soundtrack from the earlier iterations. I played the 1995 version on my family’s first computer.
We got a computer relatively late; it had a whopping 166 MHz (and the excellent sound card Soundblaster 2 Pro!). I largely grew up on this machine and a Sega Megadrive. After a recent trip home, my old joystick and throttle appeared. I could not resist bringing them with me, so I connected them to my Windows 98 box (I know, but I only use it for really old stuff that wont emulate properly 
). Sadly the original computer where thrown away as garbage years ago (with the Soundblaster 
), so I had to assemble this “crappy” machine for legacy purposes such as this.
The game is just as awesome as I remembered.
Pictures by my wife, Matilde.
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