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Wing Commander: Academy

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Wing Commander: Academy
Wing Commander: Academy cover
Developers
Origin Systems
Release dates
DOS 1993
Windows (DOSBox) August 27, 2013[1]
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⤏ Go to series page
Wing Commander 1990
Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi 1991
Wing Commander: Academy 1993
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Super Wing Commander 1994
Wing Commander: Armada 1994
Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger 1994
Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom 1996
Privateer 2: The Darkening 1996
Wing Commander: Prophecy 1997
Wing Commander: Secret Ops 1998

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
 Use DOSBox.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[2]
Windows

Game data

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\MISSIONS
Windows <path-to-game>\MISSIONS[Note 1]
<path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 2]
In-game settings are not stored between sessions.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Crash on execute

The game may crash when pressing the Execute button after making a custom mission due to lacking initial files.
Generate necessary files[3]
  1. Make a new mission and save it, then load it. This generates some necessary files.
  2. Executing should now work normally without needing to do this workaround again.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 20 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible DirectX 9 compatible

Notes

  1. ↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. ↑ File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).

References