Great game. I remember playing it on floppys at a friends house. And then years later buying it(compilation of X-WING, TIE, X-WING ALLIANCE), and playing on WIN 2000.
FYI, lucas arts has a patch for TIE FIGHTER that lets you play on XP. i have yet to try it because I unfortuneatly don't have the software anymore.
But I've heard from others that it works.
There is also a mod team re-doing the game(TIE) with updated everything. But its a very, very, very slow process which has a possibility of never coming out. they have been working on it for years.
Time to go to amazon/ebay and try to hunt down a copy.
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