Retro Flight sim thread

[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 )