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01-18-2013, 02:49 AM
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Yea, meeting people from all over the world is a great part of flying IL2. I flew around a bit with "SteelAndre" for a while who was from Holland. He had a really old shitty computer, so I mailed him a motherboard, cpu, some ram and other parts so he could fly online with decent fps. When IL246 came out, he bought me a copy of it and mailed it to me before I could get it in the stores in the USA, sweet!
Living in a smaller town myself, I have never run into anyone else in person who flew the sim, but flying online makes the world a small place. About the only flying I do these days is with a friendly bunch of older guys, we are all between 50-70 and we mostly just have fun and bullshit on TeamSpeak while we fly around and shoot each other. If it was not for that I might not fly hardly ever. I think I remember that at one point Redwulf squadron flew around in FW190s and kicked the shit out of everyone. If you were chasing them they would pull back on the stick and stall their aircraft so it fell straight backwards pointing the four 20mm cannons right at you. 
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01-18-2013, 09:13 AM
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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".
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01-18-2013, 12:19 PM
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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. 
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01-18-2013, 02:46 PM
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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.
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01-18-2013, 02:40 PM
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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... 
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