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

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Originally Posted by 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:



No complex engine management in those days...

+1 Fighter pilot was the shit Still have my old Spectrum and fired it up some year ago and played Fighter Pilot. I think it had about 4 fps in average but with those awesome graphics people understood. Not a single wining was heard in the reviews about that...

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

I remember persuading my dad spending $200 on the 32k upgrade from 16k to 48k on my spectrum to get games like this running You get a bit more memory for that cash theese days

EDIT: And no it's not me doing that crappy landing way low for most of the final approach Found it on youtube...