Friday 2010-10-08 Dev. update and Discussion

[Tempest123]

Originally Posted by pupaxx

the coolest game I played in nineties was 'Tornado'..do you remember?
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..times where the graphics did not reach, hard manuals contributed to the game immersion!!!
..nineties...I still had my hair

Ciao

This game rocked, it had an awesome manual and mission builder, some good training missions too, I remember turning on the terrain following radar and zipping across Iraq was pretty fun. The sequels "Apache" and "Hind" were also quite good.

[Insuber]

Does anybody remember "Jet Fighter" by Velocity, late 80's/early 90's? Or the great EVGA space game, Elite by Gametek ...

[C_G]

I think so. Jet Fighter came in a funky box that wasn't square and was centered around a scenario that Mexico got taken over by communists and invades California, iirc.... 'twas cool, especially carrier landing the F-18.
A friend lent it to me and wanted it back after a week so I didn't get very far with it.

[Spudkopf]

I have a "BIG" box full of nearly all the titles mentioned thus far (and then some) and I can't count the number of times that I have been tempted to simply dump them all, but somehow something just stops me.

IMO both Lucas and Dynamix had some of the best manuals.

I'm such a sad case that I purchased both BOB-TFH and Falcon (1.0) two months before I even owned a PC, if I remember correctly I also pre-ordered SWOTL as soon as it was announced, then I think I had to wait about a year or more before it arrived apparently the development time blew out

Not to mention the fortune I had to spend on magazines just see the one or two screen shots of any upcoming Sim’s I was interested in.

[NLS61]

Originally Posted by MD_Titus

tire is when you get fatigued, tyre is what goes on wheels.

Thats in correct it goes on rims.

[robday]

Originally Posted by Foo'bar

I even don't know if the A4 will make it into initial release.

Gresley's A4 Pacifics worked on the east coast main line from Kings Cross up to Scotland, as far as I am aware they never appeared on the Southern Railway routes to the south coast. Having said that Foo'bar's model is rather beautiful and it would be a pity not to include it in SoW at some time.
How many types of locomotive will be included in the initial release? (I've seen three on Foo'bar's 'site; M7, Great Western pannier tank and an 0-6-0 that I don't recognise). Yeah, I know it's not important to everyone, but besides being an aviation enthusiast, I'm also a railway nut!

[Vrait]

Originally Posted by MD_Titus

tire is when you get fatigued, tyre is what goes on wheels.

No, in American English. Tire is both fatigue, and wheels.
We don't use tyre.

[Hunden]

Originally Posted by Vrait

No, in American English. Tire is both fatigue, and wheels.
We don't use tyre.

Example: I am tired of this thread.

[robtek]

Don't worry, hopefully there will start a new one tomorrow

[_RAAF_Stupot]

Originally Posted by Tempest123

This game rocked, it had an awesome manual and mission builder, some good training missions too, I remember turning on the terrain following radar and zipping across Iraq was pretty fun. The sequels "Apache" and "Hind" were also quite good.

I can still remember the one and only air-to-air kill I got in Tornado! (in the F3) Seriously though it was best as an air-ground simulator - the mission builder was absolutely fantastic, being able to schedule your AI planes on time on target, all attacking from different directions. I can remember the trill of the RWR receiver. I can also remember trying to get a customised autoexec.bat file and config.sys file that would let me load the programme in base memory - that wasn't so much fun. The manual was good as well, some 200-odd pages long.

Another old-school sim I used to fly was EF-2000. Took me ages to learn how to do the aerial refueling!