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Wing Commander: Academy

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Wing Commander: Academy
Wing Commander: Academy cover
Developers
Origin Systems
Publishers
Retail Origin Systems
Digital Electronic Arts
Release dates
DOS 1993
Windows (DOSBox) August 27, 2013[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives First-person
Genres Action, Shooter, Vehicle combat
Vehicles Space flight
Themes Sci-fi, Space
Series Wing Commander
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Wing Commander: Academy on MobyGames
Wing Commander 1990
Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi 1991
Wing Commander: Academy 1993
Wing Commander: Privateer 1993
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

Wing Commander: Academy is a singleplayer first-person action, shooter and vehicle combat game in the Wing Commander series.

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> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
In-game settings are not stored between sessions.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

General settings.
General settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
320x200 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
On/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Wingman speech is text-based while enemy speech is audio-only.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

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
Hard disk drive (HDD) 20 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible


Notes

  1. 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