yep: Tracers, WOP and Il-2 COD

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Gomer Pyle

Thanks Flanker; that was the title I was looking for: "1942 The Pacific Air War" I loved it back then.


/Daniel

Yep - I played it a lot to and loved it as well - and I remember I liked the tracers too... To give this discussion a bit of perspective I downloaded 1942 from an abandonware site (as I cant find the original) here http://www.freegameempire.com/games/...acific-Air-War and fired up DOSBox 0.74 so see how they really looked?

Here we have me attacking a hangar (???) - lasers there at the wing roots and a spray of 1x1 orange pixels that appear far in front but nothing in between (you can see two orange dots above the "hangar" and some yellow hits ). Most sims did it like that back then as I remember it.

The thing is that in 1994 when this was released it was as good as it gets - and it was not a long time ago for us that are getting old (41 myself).

EDIT: another thing we didn't have whining about then was markings as you can understand from this shot - or if the rivets are correct on the cowling... We had a good time anyway.
EDIT2: I hope you notice the two AA-guns (???) I knocked out on my first run to the left of the field!
EDIT3: Seven years after this we got IL2... There was a bit of Mores law with real results for simmers back then!
EDIT4: And no - i did not turn on anti aliasing for the shot



Did it really look this bad? Yes it did, but we thought it looked splendid then and I remember no one whining of the tracers - rather the opposite First time playing it with a G940 at least that works fine in DOSBox if you disconnect the throttle and pedals that get mixed up otherwise

Added a shot from the side so the high fidelity ballistic modelling can be seen:

[Koyan]

Originally Posted by mazex

...Did it really look this bad? Yes it did, but we thought it looked splendid then and I remember no one whining of the tracers - rather the opposite

If those tracers were 2 pixels wide there would be a lot of whining... Silently, at home... no internet forums yet.

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Koyan

If those tracers were 2 pixels wide there would be a lot of whining... Silently, at home... no internet forums yet.

We used newsgroups back then which came long before the web, but with the same basic functionality like these forums (and the same trolls and flamings). I have found posts from me from 1994 discussing other games (as Google have indexed the old newsgroups) but not regarding 1942 though

Here is a post I found searching the old favorite rec.aviation.simulators regarding which is the best sim from 1994 where the tough demand on 8mb for best experience regarding 1942 is mentioned I don't agree with him - I would have said Aces over Europe back then

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...dc155e88c28540

And here we have a classic "when is the patch coming" post regarding 1942 from 1994:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...836aa146f71ee8

[Koyan]

Originally Posted by mazex

Here is a post I found searching the old favorite rec.aviation.simulators....

Interesting read. This brings back memory's of Hellcats over the pacific and Missions at Leyte Gulf. Played that on Atari 1024, loaded from floppy

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Koyan

Interesting read. This brings back memory's of Hellcats over the pacific and Missions at Leyte Gulf. Played that on Atari 1024, loaded from floppy

Yeah! It's nice reading old newsgroups realizing that the same problems has been discussed for +25 years - like this thread from 1986 where they whine about the intrusive copy protection in Microsoft Flight Simulator (1!):

http://groups.google.com/group/net.m...e61692ef46a9bf

Whining in forums / newsgroups is where the internet was born