12th anniversary of IL2

[MaxGunz]

I wonder if Stiglr is still playing targetware somehow....

[Snake]

Still, what's the date of IL2's first release?
They say the 4.12 patch will be release exactly on the date of IL2's first release date.

[MaxGunz]

IIRC it was mid-November in Europe and December in the US but many of us in the US bought through England. What I'm even hazier about is if the Russian release was in October or November.

Got mine in mid-December. The 2001 demo kept me from the deep "gotsta's".

[Jumoschwanz]

The original old IL2 box, the size of a breakfast cereal box. Later AEP box shows how boxes were wisely downsized in later years. They could have put 30 copies of the sim in the big box.

Literature in the box included a pamphlet from Ubi that had the release dates of new gaming software listed, IL2 is listed as "Fall 2001", which if it was it was very late in the fall.

There was an original Demo, and an improved Demo which came out later. I remember starting a download of a new patch at night before I went to bed on the 56K modem and it not being done the next morning when I got up. Sometimes it would take two long downloading sessions to get the new patch. That was the real battle of IL2, getting those damn patches on dial-up.

[MaxGunz]

Before I got DSL I'd take a stick to the local T1 connected library. We had an early start thanks to Carnegie but since I think it's in more libraries than not.

LOL! Even after I got DSL, for real big files I've popped in there and got in under 30 mins what would take at least 90 at home. The library is only 4 blocks from my door.

[Treetop64]

Originally Posted by MaxGunz

I wonder if Stiglr is still playing targetware somehow....

Target-what?

Lol! You mean Mr. Ego himself? All that guy ever did was log onto the zoo to beat down IL-2 and prop up Target: Whatever. He was one of just two or three guys in the zoo that I genuinely disliked, not because he dissed IL-2 - which itself is OK, but how often and aggressively he did.

Congrats on IL-2's continued success. Still got the original disk bought back in, what, 2003? Game's come a long, long way.

I don't like being reminded of how old we're getting...