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04-14-2011, 09:11 AM
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Ok cheeky comment coming out!!!
I'm so glad i can call myself a rookie, on IL2, now... seems like there is alot of old timers playing this game
 and have been playing air combat sims for some time Please feel free to clip me around the head...  XD 
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04-14-2011, 07:09 PM
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Here we clip wings not heads
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04-14-2011, 09:07 PM
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You want nostalgia....
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! 
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04-14-2011, 10:46 PM
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WOW video games on cassette???? that's something i had never even heard of  Its amazing that you have kept it in such good condition for all these years.cheers
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04-14-2011, 11:15 PM
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 That was a real advance for its time. You could get an astonishing 178 Kb of data on each side (they were flippy-floppies  )! It even came with CP/M on a disc - a whole new operating system to play with.I suspect the main reason the Amstrad has survived is that I only really used it for a couple of years or so. My next computer was an Acorn_Archimedes. After that it was boring old Windows machines (with a bit of Ubuntu as well - I was given an 'obsolete' Compaq which is about 10 years old, so I put Ubuntu on it and use it as a web browser sometimes). As you can tell, I'm not very good at throwing things away...
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04-14-2011, 11:43 PM
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but the upside is that when they finally open a classic computers museum (if they have not already) You might stand to make a fortune being the only person to have these old but necessary pieces of computer history in such condition cheers to you and your collection sir it is one of a kind
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04-15-2011, 01:16 AM
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04-15-2011, 01:23 AM
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Microprose F19 Stealth fighter on the Atari ST was the first flight sim I played when I was about 11. That was a real sim, I can remember how fat the manual was and you had to learn all about radar signitures and how to keep your profile low depending on what kind of radar was being used on you.
It was hard, but it was one of my favourite games. Looking at it now, hmmm great frame rate huh? lol Tornado was the second sim I had and first for PC (My dads IBM PS2 which I beleive was a 286 and had a 16 mb hard drive lol). It didn't run too smooth though and I had to play that with the keyboard and with bleeper sound lol. 
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