OT: a fair few people have played IL2 since the beginning...

[AndyJWest]

Here we go - still got the manual too:

Loading - 'neeeeeee, neeeeeeee, neeeeeeeee'....

5 minutes or so later:

Airborne! The runway is about the only thing that shows up on the ground...

Sadly, the joystick is kaput - not that it was exactly hi-tech anyway, it just imitated 5 different keypresses. I managed to take off ok, but didn't persevere beyond that

And for another nostalgia trip, Jet Set Willy: The Final Frontier

Actually a rather nice platform game - still fun, and still frustrating if your timing is less than perfect.

I'll see if I can load Tomahawk tomorrow. A much more complex sim, with genuine multicolour wireframe graphics!