Sure we'll be.

If you're not happy look at it this way: at least now graphics are contemporary quality.

But the fact that we look at a super detailed painting and have to think for some second before realizing that it's not an ingame screenshot from CoD tells me that we are beginning to get spoiled ;) I remember playing Fighter Pilot on my Spectrum in 1983 thinking it was SO cool...

Exiting ingame video of a landing in Fighter Pilot on the Spectrum... I don't remember anyone complaining about the graphics actually ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09cvB6ywiFA

I dreamt of that one day the games could possibly look as good as the splash screens displayed while loading the game from tape. I really did...

Hand on heart I really did think that pic was from a game, so yeah good point Mazex.

THE OFFICIAL NAME is:
CLIFFS OF DOVER(il-2 sturmovik) abreviation COD

no STORM OF WAR SOW
no BATTLE OF BRITTAIN BOB



in ITALIAN translation "CLIFFS OF DOVER" ------- "SCOGLIERE DI DOVER"

So true. I'd like the graphics to be as good as possible, but honestly once flying, the graphics are good enough that I spend of my time worried how I'm going to get out of the mess that I've got into, rather than what it looks like.

OMG, how old I am... I remember trying to land the Eagle on my C-64 and I was always to fast to stop on the availeable runway. But anyway that on the video was a hell of a shallow final approach :grin:

And after that came...
Dambusters(I loved it), ACE, ACE2, SoloFlight,F-15 Strike Eagle, Acrojet, Spitfire40, Battle of britain, Ace of aces, Jet... and that was only on the C-64

Amiga brought two of my favourites F-16 Fighter Pilot and Kights of the Sky, but I cant not remember a good WWII sim for the Amiga.

WOW!!! This guy art is amazing!

this is the pakage or kit of CLIFFS of DOVER
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/daniel....1541291588.jpg

The secret for survive in the battle of brittain is drink ITALIAN WINE hahahah:):)

http://www.finn.it/regia/immagini/fi...woodbridge.jpg

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...6Fc8vip1aeX7n0

or beer

http://www.serate-italiane.dk/upload/nazioel.jpg

He he played most of them too - and sat for days in Dambusters too :) And SoloFlight of all games we played for days too - the only mission to fly from field A to field B and deliver mail in a small prop plane...

Looking at this list of Jet sims:

http://www.listal.com/list/evolution...ght-simulators

I realize I have flown ALL of them accept number 8 and 28. Remember the wait for Falcon 3 and then tearing up the package and installing it and sitting there in awe of the graphics and the flight modeling... All those missions in F-19 Stealth fighter over Iran and Libya... Mmm.

And looking at the list of WWII combat sims from the good old days:

http://www.listal.com/list/wwii-air-...ght-simulators

I have flown all of them accept number 26 and 41. I loved the Dynamix games and remember when Aces over Europe came with it's semi SVGA graphics that looked SO good! The reviewers where in tears...

EDIT - this is so fun. Found this page http://www.sheeparcade.com/free-games/simulation-games/ where a lot of these old abandonware games are available for download. Download the DOSBox "dos emulator" and then run them from that... Playing SoloFlight right now. Amazing that I have put so many hours into it!

Spectrum??!! Luxury!

Eeeee, yer don't yer born. I 'ad to make do wi' ZX81 wi' two rows o' white dots on t' black background fer runway. Mind you, I had full 1Kb memory to run it on an' sep'rit plastic keyboard. Always was in t'front o' develerpment.

Eeeee......