I have most of them sitting around, somewhere, on CD. Has anyone fired any of these up lately? How hard was it to get them running on a Win 7x64 box?

Yes, I'm an old fart (I'm 47) suffering a nostalgia attack.

(I have always presumed licensing issues meant that MechWarrior / Battletech games were like old Lord of the Rings games - something we will never see on GOG. Pity)

Not lately, but I think I have 2 lying around somewhere.

Fafnir + dual Heavy Gauss + dual ER PPC FTW!!

I have 4 and it's expansion. I hadn't thought of plaything them but with my new flight stick it might be fun.

Haven't played those in AGES. I don't even have my old copies, but then, I don't have a 3.5 drive any more, either. sweet! What did you get? I'm thinking of getting a new stick, since mines in the shed at my ex's somewhere and I just bought a couple flight sims at the last sale.

My kingdom for another Mech Commander game tho :P

CH Flightstick Pro USB
It's a really old model but lot of people in here swear by them.

Windows versions of MechWarrior 2 require and a bit of tinkering; some versions are unusable on modern systems ([url=http://www.gog.com/forum/general/old_3d/post17]details here).

MechWarrior 3 and 4 should run OK on modern systems.

Hmm i broke one of those years ago. I usually go with Thrustmaster stuff, it seems heavier duty, guess I'm a barbarian in a BF-109 :P

Yeah I have the dos version of 2 laying around, i usually use virtual machine for it.

Thanks!

Mechwarrior 4 is free and awesome, I recently played it on win7 64bit, worked without problems.

That game is free? Where?

I'm also interested in this question! For the spousal unit moreso than me, as he's the die-hard MW fan, but we too have old copies sitting around and currently have win7x64, so any advice would be appreciated.

The devs released it as freeware a couple of years ago, but I cant find official sites anymore. It is still up on other sites, like chip.de