DOS

Wing Commander: Privateer

Trivia

According to an early Origin press release the player character (brownhair)'s name is Grayson Burrows.

Also the game was originally to be called Trade Commander.

The CD-ROM Edition also contains the add-on disk and the speech pack.

On the box of the german disk version of privateer there was as hardware minimum requirements announced a 386 DX with 25 MHz. But on the first pages of the manual suddenly they wrote that the minimum is a 386 DX with 33 MHz. From nowadays viewpoint, when clock speed is counted at hundreds, nothing important, but in 1993 this was rather annoying when you just owned a 25 MHz machine.

Contributed by xcom1602 (926) on Sep 07, 2001.

When you finish the game, your character was having a conversation with the admiral... Then all of a sudden they started talking back and forth about the game and its creators!

Although Privateer's player's guide was quite run-of-the-mill compared to other Origin game manuals it did come with a very interesting short story. "The Frontiersman: Interview With A Privateer" was the acount of an interview conducted to our very own Brownhair (with all names changed to protect the innocent, of course) and which told us his story to the point were he sets sail to the Gemini sector. The story also explains his relationship with the Retros and adds a more somber tone to the game, particulary to it's add-on, Righteous Fire.

There is a file called TABTNE.VDA in the directory of Privateer. This is actually a batch file. If you rename the extension from .VDA to .BAT, and run it you will see that this little file turns out to be a text adventure! Yes, it's true this little adventure is completely written with the DOS batch commands.