OT: a fair few people have played IL2 since the beginning...

[capt vertigo]

AWESOME!! That truly blew me away.. It was Pixar quality..

[cre8tive Delay]

What? no Swotl Video till yet?!

Fall on you knees and pray for forgiveness!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eosVhMLr1A

Oh, and: [Maybe 1c should hire the cover artists]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfzfd1-ft34

[Bryan21cag]

LOL there were a lot that i did play but didn't remember until you guys started posting them my apologies to the developers for my terrible memory
man if i could tally up all the hours i played flight sims during my whole life i wonder what it would actually be very scary.

[Zoom2136]

Originally Posted by jibo

and who played war eagles on 8086 ?
it was a 100% slide show, the deflection was in fact the lag, people have forgotten, the meaning of unplayable

I've played Battle of Britain on my old IBM PS2 8086... on a FLOPPY Wow what a trip back memory lane...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhO94FPfb0w

At that time I was also playing Flight of the Intruder. This was so cool back then, One coulb fly a A-6 while a friend flew an F-4 for cover... talk about massively mutiplier...

Wow... found it here

Must of been in 88 or 89 when I flew these...

[Bewolf]

What, this is the Cliffs of Dover forums combat sim remembrance thread and nobody posted this so far?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpv7dPTxLj0

This is what I started with. The circle comes to a close

[AndyJWest]

Pah! Call this nostalgia? I've still got my first air combat sims - and the computer to play them on (Amstrad CPC 464) - from the mid 1980s:

Fighter Pilot (1985)from Digital Integration (1985). F-15 sim.
Tomahawk (1986) also from Digital Integration. AH-64 sim.

They both worked (or at least loaded) when I tried a year or so back. If I get the chance, I'll try them out again, and take some photos.

From the Fighter Pilot instruction leaflet:

← - Joystick LEFT
↓ - Joystick BACK
↑ - Joystick FORWARD
→ - Joystick RIGHT
Z - RUDDER LEFT
X - RUDDER RIGHT

Q - Increase THRUST
A - Decrease THRUST
W - Flaps UP
S - Flaps DOWN
U - Undercarriage UP and DOWN
B - Brakes ON
N - Next Beacon
M - Map
F - ILS/Flight Computer
<Space> GUNS (active only in Combat mode)
H - Hold
J - Release
<ESC> To return to menu

No complex engine management in those days...

[Trouble4u]

My favorite sim of all time was Pacific Air War because not only did you get to fly the missions, you also controled the fleet.

PAW/Gold
Aces over Europe
Red Baron, RBII and 3d
EAW
Jane WWII fighter
MS Combat sim II and 3
IL-2, Pacific Fighter, Forgotten Battles and 1946
Rise of Flight

Still waiting for Cliffs of Dover

[choctaw111]

Il2 has come a long way since the demo and was light years ahead of anything else at that time.
I don't recall the flight sim you are talking about but I started on my Commodore 64 with original combat flight simulator for MSFS. You know, the one that had the screen refresh after about every second or so
I think I must have bought just about every single combat flight sim since then.
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe was great for 1990!
There were just so many that I had a great time with.
Since Il2 was introduced I have enjoyed this one by far the most.

[choctaw111]

Originally Posted by Bewolf

What, this is the Cliffs of Dover forums combat sim remembrance thread and nobody posted this so far?

This is what I started with. The circle comes to a close

TFH was very good and I enjoyed countless hours on the Amiga...with 1 Meg of ram...a big deal back then.

[AndyJWest]

...the Amiga...with 1 Meg of ram...a big deal back then...

Pah! Another mere newcomer, who doesn't know what real computers were like. The first computer I ever actually got to touch: Acorn Atom "The 12 KB of RAM was divided between 5 KB available for programs, 1 KB for the page zero and 6 KB for the high resolution graphics". The first computer I programmed was a BBC Micro, with an astonishing 32 Kb of RAM...