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[ATAG_Doc]

Wait a second...I think if you look off shore from Dunkirk about 25 miles I found the SS minnow floating around.

[NLS61]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Doc

Wait a second...I think if you look off shore from Dunkirk about 25 miles I found the SS minnow floating around.

The S. S. Minnow is a fictional charter boat
what I dont get, but Im Dutch so should be forgiven, how it relates to the post(s) above.

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Doc

Wait a second...I think if you look off shore from Dunkirk about 25 miles I found the SS minnow floating around.

I would not be too suprised!!

In that this would not be the first flight sim to simulate the SS minnow!

microprose pacific air war 1942 (PAW) had an 'extra' island out in the pacific map.. And if you flew close to it.. You would start reciving radio message (text) from the 'folks' living on that island! Get closer and you could see the ship and people sitting on the beach

It was a great sim.. One of if not the first PC game to impliment a true 6DOF flight model.. Though it was fixxed point math and not floating point.. It was still far better than the other sims at that time (AOTP, AOE, RB, CYAR, SWOTL, etc).. It was also the sim that lead the way to microprose european air war (EAW)

[planespotter]

Ahhhh EAW, my first true love. would you believe i left her for CFS3 (yes, I am ashamed but I did love that mosqito) but she took me back. I had another affair with B17 the mighty 8th but EAW still had my heart. then IL2 came along (aces expansion, not the first one) and I left EAW forever. I still see her around, she's holding her age pretty well, but it's not the same anymore.

[ICU_DIE535]

Anyone remember the Easter eggs in Fleet Defender? The F-14 simulation from Microprose. If you fly to far to one side of the map there was a flying Dragon. There was also a mission where they scrambled you to VID a bogey that turned out to be a flying disk UFO.

[klem]

Originally Posted by ICU_DIE535

Anyone remember the Easter eggs in Fleet Defender? The F-14 simulation from Microprose. If you fly to far to one side of the map there was a flying Dragon. There was also a mission where they scrambled you to VID a bogey that turned out to be a flying disk UFO.

There goes the thread

[priller26]

EAW was awesome, and ran like a champ

[broken pixel]

Sorry to change the subject on EAW but could one of the developers please give some feedback on the Windows 8 issue with IL2 COD not being able to start? Can we hope for a fix?