Well done! I had XWA running on Win7 a year or so ago, but somehow it stopped working and I never could figure out why. This guide got me back up and running in no time! Thanks!

The Tie Fighter Music mod is finally out: http://www.savingcontent.com/2012/05/tie...music-released/

Heres the bullet points of what it does:
- restores original DOS score with much better quality than before (except for the intro-- unfortunately its locked to 11khz mono, but we improved it as much as we could)
- restores better quality Voice from DOS CD-Rom version

I tried to re-install XWA recently, and ended up breaking one of my original cd's :p

Can we get this stickied up somewhere?

What Sound Generator/sound card/synthesizer are you using for this?

Hey, my name is Daniel 'Yitzchak' Bennett (not my real name, but it works), and I did the music for Abdul's mod.

I didn't use a Sound Generator or anything like it for making this mod...assuming that you mean a device through which I run the original MIDI like a synthesizer and record the output a la TIE FIGHTER Windows version did. I actually re-recorded the music using professional-quality sample libraries.

I'm using, almost exclusively, East West/Quantum Leap's Symphonic Orchestra Platinum Plus PLAY! Edition, with a few additions from EWQL Solo Violin, Stormdrum 2 Complete, and Pianos.

The music is taken from the actual MIDI files from the games, transcribed to sheet music, which I then play using my MIDI keyboard, the values of which are slightly quantized/corrected as needed. This allows me a lot more fluidity and naturalization of sound than simply copypasting the MIDI itself, as well as getting rid of a lot of the 'machine-gun' sound of computer replication.

I'm currently about halfway through the X-Wing Reconstructed Mod, so look forward to that in the coming weeks!

My problem is that I cant get my x-wing games to detect my logitech attack 3 joystick. I bought an upgrade so I can get windows xp mode to work. It does but my joystick only works on windows 7. I played one of my buddies games on windows 7 which was ww2 fighters by janes. Also it wouldnt play unless it was the smallest screen resolution on windows xp which I cant understand why. Logitech dont make drivers for xp anymore. I guess I am going to have to try getting another brand of joystick. I tried downloading zip files from another website via rebelsquadrons but I couldnt get it to work either. I am about ready to give up and sell my games since they dont want to work on my pc like they did on my old pc with windows xp. I am getting the feeling I am not doing something right when I try to get my games to work on my pc. I got my x-wing games to install but that is about it.

Thank you for posting the Music Mod also. More good work on a classic sim.

Thanks for the link.

Glad to see Markus Egger in the credits. About a year ago, I followed his instructions here:

http://www.markusegger.at/

and got my X-Wing / Tie Fighter / X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter / X-Wing Alliance installs all up to snuff. I might look at the sound improvements though.

I didn't see if color glitch was brought up in that article though, or if the hoops fix it. Sometimes when you exit/complete a mission in Tie Fighter or X-Wing, the color palette gets crazy.

The fix is to open your task manager and end the "explorer.exe" process. This kills your GUI desktop. Then, within the Task Manager, click "File", then "New Task (Run...)" and choose the pertinent shortcut or .exe for the game you want to play. It will start normally.

Once you're done playing, just reinitialize the "explorer.exe" from the Task Manager by clicking "File", the "New Task (Run...)", and type "explorer.exe".

Voila! No color glitches.

IIRC, Alliance came hardcoded with MSN Gaming Zone for matchmaking. Wikipedia says that multiplayer support ended in 2004. Alliance has been modded in all possible ways though, so you are sure to find something in a google search: