Anatoly Shashkin💾Ever heard that Wing Commander story where the memory extender error message was changed to "Thank you for playing Wing Commander" to conceal a crash? Well, that doesn't actually happen in any version of the game. This article gets to the bottom of the myth:
https://www.wcnews.com/news/update/16279
https://www.wcnews.com/news/update/16279
Mythbusters: Wing Commander I Edition
You've probably heard of the famous 'thank you for playing Wing Commander' story. It claims that a programmer on the original Wing Commander was stuck getting an error message when the game unloaded its memory during a quit. Pressed for time, instead of fixing the issue he simply hex edited the memory manager's error reporting to print 'thank you for playing Wing Commander' instead. A funny and relatable story!