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!

[TonyD]

Originally Posted by TomcatViP

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Or TFX, the Father of EF2000 / F22 from DiD

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TFX was my introduction to combat flight sims, and I thought that the graphics and realism were truly awesome. It also ran brilliantly on my i486DX2 with 12MB RAM and a 2MB S3 Virge. The next one that blew me away was Jane’s USAF, and I was bitterly disappointed when I could no longer run it after upgrading to XP.

[mazex]

Originally Posted by PeterPanPan

This is where it all started for me. Was so immersive at the time!!! Ah, the ZX 81 ...

PPP

Darn - I've been beaten! Only flight sim in this thread I haven't played! A friend had a ZX 81 before I got my ZX Spectrum 16k (later upgraded to 48k), don't remember he had any flight sims though...

[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

[NedLynch]

Originally Posted by Katana1000S

Oh my God, I remember this awesome, awesome sim. That one really felt like a sim. The manual was as far as I recall over 350 pages long and I always felt it only scrached the surface.

What did the manual say about the Tornado? A smart plane for dumb bombs, it was great fun lofting bombs at a target, breaking away and escaping sams at mach 1.2 at treetop level

Plus, didn't this one have a fully dynamic campaign?