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Originally Posted by nearmiss
The CHproducts is a winner (but NOT forcefeedback). Rugged equipment and terrific software. The CH forums has some very sharp people responding to support issues and they take care of business.
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Bought my first CH Stick for my trusty old 386DX-16 in 1989 for playing "Their Finest Hour", "Red Baron", "Fighter Bomber" and other high fidelity PC sims
so I sure know how to appreciate CH stuff... Had two CH sticks during the years but both have been worn out, as opposed to my MSFFB2...
As I'm off topic now thinking about the old games I played on the PC back then, I found this site while writing this post with abandonware (download the open source app dosbox to be able to run them on a modern PC -
http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1):
http://www.xtcabandonware.com/index....85&type=Flight
Just downloaded and played F29 Retaliator that was the first PC flight "simulator" that I played on multiplayer in 1991 - on a serial cable. Damn it was fun. It has no FM or realism at all, but the missions where real fun on multiplayer. A simple idea that is great for two player multi:
You started in the air and both got the same target "Tank in E5" or something. You then got point for killing that target. If you focused on shooting down the other player you got no points, but you only had 5 planes to you could win on points after some time period or "elimination" after the 5 planes where out. Wery much like your every day IL2 server running GC2
The fun (and non realistic) part was that both had the same target... Could be fun for IL2 too actually.
Played some SWOTL too while writing this - amazing that I thought it was so beautiful
Back to waiting for news then...
Edit: Found Aces over Europe that is one of the games I've spent most time with in those days as abandonware too:
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/15...er+Europe.html
Works great in dosbox. Gotta go back for some channel fighting!
/Mazex