Originally Posted by mazex (Post 215512)

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...

Originally Posted by mazex (Post 215615)

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!

Originally Posted by Baron (Post 215674)

Where can i download the high res. version of that video?

Originally Posted by David603 (Post 215735)

I think I have the full list of aircraft figured out now :)

Flyable,

Bf109E-3 (possibly E-1 also)
Bf110
Blenhiem MkIV
Br.20 M
Cierva C.30 (Autogyro)
G.50
Ju-87
Ju-88
He-111
Hurricane (3 versions of MkI)
Spitfire (MkI early/MkIa/MkIb/MkII)
Su-26 (Oleg was lead designer on this aircraft ;) )
Tiger Moth

Non-flyable,

Anson
Beaufighter
Bf108
Cr.42
Defiant
Do-17 (and Do-215)
Fw-200
Gladiator
He-59
He-115
Sunderland
Walrus
Wellington

Originally Posted by zakkandrachoff (Post 215791)

mmmmmmmmm, Spitfire MkII ???

Originally Posted by Triggaaar (Post 214986)

Ok, you're not having a dig, it's your honest opinion - no problem. But... what are you talking about? Are you talking about graphics on screenshots that are not at maximum settings? Whatever you're referring to, the graphics haven't been limited by the resources of the development team, they'll be limited by the capabilites of today's PCs. There's so much processing involved in a decent combat sim that the PCs will struggle. I think the graphics (when at the best settings) will be great, but when they hit the limit it will be due to PC power, not development resources.

Originally Posted by imaca (Post 215854)

Its noticeable in the screenies there are almost no walls/fences/hedges.
I can imagine adding them would be quite a lot of work.
Or would it just add too much more load to the graphics system?
What do you think?