No, boss, I'm not just playing a game. I'm testing compatibility. Honest
It is almost 30 years since Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger was released. In addition to allowing users to kick some Kilrathi ass, the game also played an important role in testing Windows 95.on his New Old Thing blog this week about how a bit of"testing" using Wing Commander III resulted in a fix being made to way the in-development Windows 95 talked to the underlying MS-DOS.
One enterprising manager took his truck to the local computer store, plucked a copy of every PC program on the shelves, and handed them out to the Windows 95 team. Each member could take up to two programs and was responsible for installing and running them like a normal end user. If anything didn't work, a bug report was filed.
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