Retro Flight sim thread

[Ze-Jamz]

Gunship

ZX Spectrum

[SEE]

Microsoft CFS1 was my first sim...couldn't run 2 or 3 on my PC. Haven't got it installed anymore but it was a boyhood dream come true for me when I installed it and bought my first flightstick. I was hooked then and still am!

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Ze-Jamz

Gunship

ZX Spectrum

Mmm, that screenie can't be from a Spectrum though? (too many colors)... Must be a C64 - or rather an Amiga?

[mazex]

I hope all you other nostalgic's here have tried dosbox?

http://www.dosbox.com/

Then a number of sites have all those old favorites as "abandonware" like:

http://www.abandonia.com/games/154/AcesOverEurope.htm

Played Aces over Europe not that long ago - worked fine with my Logitech G940 in dosbox!

And there are of course good Spectrum/C64 emulators for those that have not kept their old ones like me. Most games are available in .bin files (still have my fighter pilot cassette tape - but nothing to play it ). There are also wav-files with the old games that I tried, connect the real Spectrum with a cable to your modern PC and press play in media player instead of the real cassette player... Works like a charm and no tuning of the cassette head

A quick 1 minute guide to get you running the DOS classic "Aces over Europe" (works fine on my system in the sig). Darn that dynamix "Aces" suite was good stuff!

1. Go to http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1 and download the "Windows" executable (Win32 installer) at the top of the page
2. Install Dosbox
3. Go to http://www.abandonia.com/games/154/AcesOverEurope.htm and click the red "get it" image (two times). You will get "Aces over Europe.zip"
4. I recommend making a directory called "DOS" in the root of your favorite drive, D: in my case
4. Unpack "Aces over Europe.zip" to D:\DOS, rename the directory to "AOE" (Dos don't like long names)
5. Start Dosbox and write:
> mount c d:\dos
> c:
> cd aoe
> aoe
6. Click CTRL+F12 to increase CPU cycles to around 6000 (makes your old emulated dos machine a bit faster ) To decrease, use CTRL+F11
7. Happy hunting!

P.S I recommend putting the mount command in the dosbox conf file (acts like autoexec.bat )

[von Pilsner]

Originally Posted by mazex

I hope all you other nostalgic's here have tried dosbox?

http://www.dosbox.com/

Then a number of sites have all those old favorites as "abandonware" like:

http://www.abandonia.com/games/154/AcesOverEurope.htm

Played Aces over Europe not that long ago - worked fine with my Logitech G940 in dosbox!

DosBox is really neat (and works quite well as well)
There are still AOE & AOTP mods available... xP

[Trooper117]

This was where it was at..


http://youtu.be/7kEOubCNe4o

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Trooper117

This was where it was at..


http://youtu.be/7kEOubCNe4o

Ahh, we played that many nights on LAN in the basement of the university campus. Co-op raids with 8 guys assaulting Star Destroyers in A-wings and Y-wings

[conio]

I remember spending hours on this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnUtoh-u4gA

[nearmiss]

EAW wasn't too bad, but I was off it in a month.

I found MSFT CFS2 and was caught in that web for several years. I began to move to IL2 after about a year of CFS2.

The IL2 was awesome in comparison, but the CFS2 had the best mission builder of any air combat sim... even today it is the best. When the COD begins to release more information on scripting in the FMB the COD might be better.

Yet, with scripting I doubt it will be simple enough for most users. If the devs built a good GUI for it with presets that would make a huge difference. That way most people could use it well enough, and the experts could have their way as well.