Friday 2010-10-08 Dev. update and Discussion

[_RAAF_Stupot]

Originally Posted by Tempest123

This game rocked, it had an awesome manual and mission builder, some good training missions too, I remember turning on the terrain following radar and zipping across Iraq was pretty fun. The sequels "Apache" and "Hind" were also quite good.

I can still remember the one and only air-to-air kill I got in Tornado! (in the F3) Seriously though it was best as an air-ground simulator - the mission builder was absolutely fantastic, being able to schedule your AI planes on time on target, all attacking from different directions. I can remember the trill of the RWR receiver. I can also remember trying to get a customised autoexec.bat file and config.sys file that would let me load the programme in base memory - that wasn't so much fun. The manual was good as well, some 200-odd pages long.

Another old-school sim I used to fly was EF-2000. Took me ages to learn how to do the aerial refueling!

[pupaxx]

Originally Posted by _RAAF_Stupot

I can still remember the one and only air-to-air kill I got in Tornado! (in the F3) Seriously though it was best as an air-ground simulator - the mission builder was absolutely fantastic, being able to schedule your AI planes on time on target, all attacking from different directions. I can remember the trill of the RWR receiver. I can also remember trying to get a customised autoexec.bat file and config.sys file that would let me load the programme in base memory - that wasn't so much fun. The manual was good as well, some 200-odd pages long.

Another old-school sim I used to fly was EF-2000. Took me ages to learn how to do the aerial refueling!

+10 several hours spent with ef-2000 ..I remember uneventfull CAP mission flown for 1 hour or more or interception at very low altitude.. great game ,
I found a link about classic combat simulators
http://www.listal.com/list/evolution...ght-simulators
it impressed me cause i spent my youth on most of them since I was 13, how many hours subtracted to homeworks!!
In this list are missing two top games: Aces of pacific and aces over europe!!!great days... but gretest are to come with SOW
Ciao

[Richie]

One thing I was thinking about was menu music. Although I'm not much of a fan I found out that Wings Of Prey has an awesome main theme.


Yes We Are....ACES!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeDoxHGLpCU

[robday]

Originally Posted by Richie

One thing I was thinking about was menu music.

The first thing I do with any game after I have installed it, no matter what genre, is to go to the options screen and turn the music OFF. It's usually rubbish and I find that it detracts from the game.

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by robday

The first thing I do with any game after I have installed it, no matter what genre, is to go to the options screen and turn the music OFF. It's usually rubbish and I find that it detracts from the game.

Well personally I used to jump in the jeeps in Battlefield 'Nam and turn on the radio and just listen to the '60's soundtrack It is hard to criticize a sound track that included Creedence, The Troggs, Canned Heat Deep Purple and The Kinks

I also found the soundtracks that came with the various "Need for Speed Underground" titles pretty good listening.

A good soundtrack can help a game immensely. In terms of WWII a mixture of Vera Lynn, Glenn Miller, Marlene Dietrich and similar songs in other languages ("Lili Marleen" in German was a huge hit amongst Afrika Corp troops for example) may not be played every time you fly but would add a lot to the atmosphere of the game.

[Sturm_Williger]

I agree that I almost always turn the music off, but one game I remember the music was epic - UFO ( the very first one ). The music was just so eerie, it's the only game I know where the music actually gave you the willies !

[Fansadox]

Originally Posted by Sturm_Williger

I agree that I almost always turn the music off, but one game I remember the music was epic - UFO ( the very first one ). The music was just so eerie, it's the only game I know where the music actually gave you the willies !

best music ever in a game would be in DEFCON for me.

[Tempest123]

Originally Posted by _RAAF_Stupot

I can still remember the one and only air-to-air kill I got in Tornado! (in the F3) Seriously though it was best as an air-ground simulator - the mission builder was absolutely fantastic, being able to schedule your AI planes on time on target, all attacking from different directions. I can remember the trill of the RWR receiver. I can also remember trying to get a customised autoexec.bat file and config.sys file that would let me load the programme in base memory - that wasn't so much fun. The manual was good as well, some 200-odd pages long.

Another old-school sim I used to fly was EF-2000. Took me ages to learn how to do the aerial refueling!

Ef2000 was really good, I managed to do the inflight refueling a few times, but I remember it was hard as hell, the terrain in that sim still looks good today. I think that was the first sim I had that had a 3d cockpit, it seemed so amazing at the time. Another fave of mine was MiG Alley, I liked the dogfights, and the big flights of sabres, the terrain was blah, but the campaign was excellent. One feature I really liked was the ability to see the enemy planes by seeing reflections off their canopies and light flashes, I hope BoB has something similar for planes with a lot of plexiglass.

[RXMAN]

Oh glorious memories of Jaeger's 'Fighter Duel' Corsair vs Zero on the Amiga. The first hi-res flight sim. Flew 1 on 1 over 14,400 modems. Almost melted down a plastic card on phone bills, until wifey caught me. The program ended up with about 20 planes before switching to the PC. there it was in glorious 256 color 640x480 svga.. Caused me to switch to the PC platform. Still have most of my tournament scores and a few videos somewhere. Some of these AKAs are still flying I'm sure. Hawkeye, Leadwiper, BigDaddy, Walkup, DBee, Tahoe, RCPilot, Zed, Empleo, Tank, HumblePie, GhostRider, etc

[Flanker35M]

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Richie, I know quite a few of those guys in your video And that drink, FPO, is legendary