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Originally Posted by JOED70 (Post 173626)

From My long ramble above , I am curious to know what your guys thoughts are on the Gravity settings for the differnent modes . That and the fact that if the Ground scores more damage the the attacking aircraft the ground wins ie crash no kill credit . lets say my 109 has a 1000 points of health Gilly comes along in his spit and blasts the hell out my wing with those lead peppering brownings of his that he so dam good with for 425 points My 109 flips over and augers in the ground now scores 475 points damage thus we get a crash not a well deserved kill. I think this is why the water seems to elimnate alot of the no kill crashs it seems to do no or very little damage .

thoughts???

I get the feeling that the gravity is the same thru all 3 modes, I could be very wrong but I can't tell the difference between an Arcade flat spin and a Sim one, you never really fall out of the sky like a stone. You're probably right about the damage system. You can land on water and not die till you go under (very quick!) It would make sense if it was based on a points system. I try and look to sse what damage I've got just before I go down and I've had 2 black wings, crashed and still not had the kill credited to the other guy.. I guess the colour coded damage is more to do with how it affects flight and a possible points system to work out when you're dead and who did it?
The saving grace is that it's one of those issues that everyone has to deal with and eventually you just end up laughing to yourself about how much lead you put into someone and still don't get a kill for it.

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Originally Posted by olife (Post 173554)

hello bud

yes i remenber my neighbour had an amstrad 464 and we played a lot harrier attack too!!!green and black screen!!!what a very nice recollection!!and not a blue ray disk!!lol...but a cassette and easy to "pirat" with a double cassette recorder!!!lol!!!!

Five minute load times only to get the dreaded Read Error B. :-)

http://i38.tinypic.com/b65ykz.jpg

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Originally Posted by Zatoichi_Sanjuro (Post 173662)

Five minute load times only to get the dreaded Read Error B. :-)

http://i38.tinypic.com/b65ykz.jpg

Spectrum..
I remember dreading it as the end of the tape approached because you never knew if it was actually loading, or if it had crashed 10 mins ago and was just pretending to load... or the joy of getting past the bit of the tape where you knew it crashed nearly every time because thats where it chewed it up..

Jeez, the shit I had to put up with as a child.

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Originally Posted by Zatoichi_Sanjuro (Post 173662)

Five minute load times only to get the dreaded Read Error B. :-)

http://i38.tinypic.com/b65ykz.jpg

Anyone play Gunship with it's lenslock system where once you'd got through the
terror of loading you had to hold up a little plastic lens provided to decipher the code presented- the frustration of crappy illegible letters drove me insane! As you say winny the crap we put up with.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1...=youtube_gdata

Gilly
You had a red plastic lens you lucky dog you we had to poke our eyes with forks if we wanted to decode hidden secret msgs:-):-):-):-);)

Oh you had forks? we had to use broken pop bottles we found on the road. and you try to tell the young people of today that....and they wont believe ya

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Originally Posted by bobbysocks (Post 173763)

Oh you had forks? we had to use broken pop bottles we found on the road. and you try to tell the young people of today that....and they wont believe ya

You had pop bottles and roads??!!! you lucky barstards! etc..

and now for something completely different.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_lXq...ayer_embedded#!

Oh cool that's a good retro game topic!!

I remember my first sim game was on a Olivetti Pc-1 8088, it was called F16 Falcon, i was playing in CGA graphic mode....lol

I've had a zx spectrum too... i loved that computer, but one day it broke :(