chromium Posted March 21, 2012 Posted March 21, 2012 Dont know why Strike commander wasnt a SIM. It had a rather unconventional cockpit interface with the player, a storyline instead of a normal campaign but other than that I couldnt see anyhting in the simulation aspect that was any less than its couterparts. We are talking about a SIM made in 1993, lots of SIM's but very few were actually aimed at realism. Oh boy code writers got a quite a few facts wrong! :D That Storyline, or at most the idea beyond that, was really cool and more than once I tried to use that "economic" resource management for small series of mission in my group. It's interesting and, also, give you a way to create a "squadron" feelings while flying a sequence of missions. But very few people are interested in expanding the simulation outside the cockpit :). And you are right, I believe that at its time it was a sim :)... but the revolution was Falcon and LB2, before them, everything is at most "serius gaming" to me:). Author of DSMC, mod to enable scenario persistency and save updated miz file Stable version & site: https://dsmcfordcs.wordpress.com/ Openbeta: https://github.com/Chromium18/DSMC The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously.
Devrim Posted August 9, 2012 Posted August 9, 2012 My first flight sim was "Fighter Bomber" with Amiga 500 in 80s. :) Really loved it. I was playing it day & night. And favourite plane was Phantom. I miss all green ground. :) Intel i7-14700@5.6GHz | MSI RTX4080 SuperSuprimX | Corsair V. 64GB@6400MHz. | Samsung 1TB 990 PRO SSD (Win10Homex64) Samsung G5 32" + Samsung 18" + 2x8"TFT Displays | TM Warthog Stick w/AVA Base | VPC MongoosT-50CM3 Throttle | TM MFD Cougars | Logitech G13, G230, G510, PZ55 & Farming Sim Panel | TIR5 & M.Quest3 VR >>MY MODS<< | Discord: Devrim#1068
Teapot Posted August 9, 2012 Posted August 9, 2012 subLogics Flight Simulator II for Commodore 64 ... loved it to bits. "A true 'sandbox flight sim' requires hi-fidelity flyable non-combat utility/support aircraft." Wishlist Terrains - Bigger maps Wishlist Modules - A variety of utility aircraft to better reflect the support role. E.g. Flying the Hornet ... big yawn ... flying a Caribou on a beer run to Singapore? Count me in. Extracting a Recon Patrol from a hastily prepared landing strip at a random 6 figure grid reference? Now yer talking!
k2x5 Posted August 9, 2012 Posted August 9, 2012 Tiger Electronics - Afterburner! Or, perhaps it was Sierra's A-10 Tank Killer (Original DOS version)
ED Team JimMack Posted August 9, 2012 ED Team Posted August 9, 2012 The first title I published at Mirrorsoft was "Spitfire 40" on the C64 - on cassette, we did not have floppy disc drives then in the UK in 1983! Having problems? Visit http://en.wiki.eagle.ru/wiki/Main_Page Dell Laptop M1730 -Vista- Intel Core 2 Duo T7500@2.2GHz, 4GB, Nvidia 8700MGT 767MB Intel i7 975 Extreme 3.2GHZ CPU, NVidia GTX 570 1.28Gb Pcie Graphics.
Shaman Posted August 10, 2012 Posted August 10, 2012 First PC was PC AT 12MHz (!) and first two flight sims: Flight Simulator 4.0 and Fighter Bomber 51PVO Founding member (DEC2007-) 100KIAP Founding member (DEC2018-) :: Shaman aka [100☭] Shamansky tail# 44 or 444 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] 100KIAP Regiment Early Warning & Control officer
WildBillKelsoe Posted August 12, 2012 Posted August 12, 2012 (edited) My first ever flight sim was Microprose Gunship 2000. I still have it today. But the storage and tempering of friends at the family house made the CD a rubbish crackpot!! I had nothing but a logitech serial gamepad to play, and an HP Brio (1998 ish) that ran RA2 and hidden and dangerous (FFF :X) only... I miss those old days. I miss my life as a child back in elementary school. But before that (1995 IIRC) I watched dad play Su-?? I remember him teaching me to do the immelmann!! OMG!!! :...( It was on win 95 (or 98) and the menu music was very funny, albeit russian. I think it's this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su-27_Flanker_%28video_game%29 the menu music for this: If someone would post the menu music, I will verify. Edited August 12, 2012 by WildBillKelsoe AWAITING ED NEW DAMAGE MODEL IMPLEMENTATION FOR WW2 BIRDS Fat T is above, thin T is below. Long T is faster, Short T is slower. Open triangle is AWACS, closed triangle is your own sensors. Double dash is friendly, Single dash is enemy. Circle is friendly. Strobe is jammer. Strobe to dash is under 35 km. HDD is 7 times range key. Radar to 160 km, IRST to 10 km. Stay low, but never slow.
Blaze Posted August 12, 2012 Posted August 12, 2012 Jane's F/A-18, I loved it and still play it to this day with the TSH addons. ZxqulkDNv7A Then came Janes USAF...probably one of my all-time favorites. Intro OVRAAMGx3_Q i7 7700K | 32GB RAM | GTX 1080Ti | Rift CV1 | TM Warthog | Win 10 "There will always be people with a false sense of entitlement. You can want it, you can ask for it, but you don't automatically deserve it. "
LawnDart Posted August 12, 2012 Posted August 12, 2012 Man, tripping down memory lane... First significant memory is playing 1v1 with a friend on Falcon (the original from 1986) via serial ports on two of my dad's computers in our basement either '86 or '87. Computers were ancient by today's standards... 286/386 maybe? :) [sigpic]http://www.virtualthunderbirds.com/Signatures/sig_LD.jpg[/sigpic] Virtual Thunderbirds, LLC | Sponsored by Thrustmaster Corsair 750D Case | Corsair RM850i PSU | ASUS ROG MAXIMUS X CODE | 32GB Corsair DDR4 3200 | Intel i7-8086K | Corsair Hydro H100i v2 Cooler | EVGA GTX 1080 Ti FTW | Oculus Rift | X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty | Samsung SSD 970 EVO 1TB NVMe | Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB | WD Caviar Black 2 x 1TB | TM HOTAS Warthog | TM Pendular Rudder | TM MFD Cougar Pack | 40" LG 1080p LED | Win10 |
Corrigan Posted August 12, 2012 Posted August 12, 2012 DCS A-10C. :] Win10 x64 | SSDs | i5 2500K @ 4.4 GHz | 16 GB RAM | GTX 970 | TM Warthog HOTAS | Saitek pedals | TIR5
Aries Posted August 12, 2012 Posted August 12, 2012 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2.0 But man, did I not understand a thing... I know I fiddled in the options, trying to get the dogfighting crosshairs... Then came the one that made me luuuuv the Hog, "A-10 Tank Killer" which I played on some 386DX PC something... Then "LHX Attack Chopper", also on PC... the first sim that made me fire mouse guided TOW missiles... Then I got my Amiga 500, oh boy... did I swap those disks in: F-16 Combat Pilot, F-19 Stealth Fighter, Fighter Bomber, Guship 2000, F/A-18 Interceptor, Combat Air Patrol, Microprose Dogfight, F-29 Retaliator... Later it was "Tornado" and "Chuck Yeager's Air Combat" on a roommate's PC in college... After that came Jane's U.S. Navy Fighters, Jane's Israeli Air Force... and then a black hole, cause I never had enough money for a Voodoo card so I skipped Longbow 2 and Jane's F-15 and Jane's F/A-18... I remember playing Hind over a modem with a friend... Then came SU-27 Flanker that a friend brought me... An then came out A-10 Cuba! which I played for God knows how many years, every day, on my trusty old gameport Saitek X-36 HOTAS... After that I bought Flanker 2.0 and Falcon 4.0... And then it was LOMAC in which I also flew only the A-10... After that glide wrappers kicked in and I jumped back to that Longbow 2 I missed, for a short period of time... Then it was FC1 and FC2 but I never really mastered the SU-25... or the dogfighting skills... I was always a ground pounder, be it in my helo or my trusty ol' Hawg... Then three years of Battlefield 2 kicked in, oh boy did I love to fly helos in that game, and the Hawg that came with the BF2 booster pack Armored Fury... AND THEN CAME THE DAY A SPARK OF DIVINE LIGHT TOUCHED ME, AND I SAT DOWN IN MY DCS WARTHOG COCKPIT... THAT'S WHERE I AM NOW, SPITTING DU ROUNDS WITH MY FRIKKIN WINGMEN AND HOPING IT WILL LAST FOREVER... :thumbup: :D:D:D 1 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] ...the few, the proud, the remaining...
SmokeyTheLung Posted August 13, 2012 Posted August 13, 2012 DCS: Black Shark System specifications: Computer, joystick, DCS world, Beer
Cyb0rg Posted August 13, 2012 Posted August 13, 2012 (edited) Da Best! :pilotfly: Edited August 13, 2012 by Cyb0rg [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Asteroids ____________________________________________ Update this :D
oniellnz Posted August 13, 2012 Posted August 13, 2012 My first was ACE: Air Combat Emulator on the C64. Came out in 1985, and had it all... A-A A-G Anti Ship Air Refueling My first on the PC was DI Tornado. I Still have the box with the 300 page manual and the Merlin Challenge game that came with it. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Shaken, stirred, snap frozen - twice, turned into a snowman and shaken some more.
Aries Posted August 13, 2012 Posted August 13, 2012 Does anyone remember this one on the Amiga? Oh yes Mustang! How did I not mention that one... The first sim I was introduced with the existence and photo of a enemy Hokum... ...and boy did I fear to meet the "black helicopter" on the battlefield... [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] ...the few, the proud, the remaining...
MadMonkey Posted August 13, 2012 Posted August 13, 2012 I still have all the discs! Fleet Defender: The F-14 Tomcat Simulation by Microprose in 1994 DID F22 Air Dominance Fighter DID f22 ADF 95 EF2000 V2 Janes F/a-18 Falcon 4.0 F/A-18 Operation Iraqi Freedom man those were the good Ole days.. shity block graphics & you were amazed & happy. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] GoPro + F18 = AWESOME A-10 "Warthogs from hell"
macedk Posted August 13, 2012 Posted August 13, 2012 ACE C64 :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx0WF3wrIkk OS: Win10 home 64bit*MB: Asus Strix Z270F/ CPU: Intel I7 7700k /Ram:32gb_ddr4 GFX: Nvidia Asus 1080 8Gb Mon: Asus vg2448qe 24" Disk: SSD Stick: TM Warthog #1400/Saitek pro pedals/TIR5/TM MFDs [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Shaman Posted August 14, 2012 Posted August 14, 2012 First "flight sim" if it qualifies, Harrier Attack and LYNX on ZX Spectrum :P 51PVO Founding member (DEC2007-) 100KIAP Founding member (DEC2018-) :: Shaman aka [100☭] Shamansky tail# 44 or 444 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] 100KIAP Regiment Early Warning & Control officer
Cedaway Posted August 14, 2012 Posted August 14, 2012 (edited) Found that back weeks ago... Souvenirs souvenirs! Edit: I remember I had to go to London to find Jane's Longbow2 and F-15E. Couldn't find them in Belgium... Hopefully, I was still at school and each year, the school organized a trip for the students at x-mas time in London. As soon as I was 'dropped' in the city, I used to go to 'harrods' (it was the most 'visible' and I didn't knew London) and looked for PC games I couldn't find home, like those 2. Edited November 30, 2012 by Cedaway 1 DCS Wish: Turbulences affecting surrounding aircraft... [sIGPIC] [/sIGPIC] Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3P - Intel Core i5 6600K - 16Gb RAM DDR4-2133 - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming - 8 Go - 2 x SSD Crucial MX300 - 750 Go RAID0 - Screens: HP OMEN 32'' 2560x1440 + Oculus Rift CV1 - Win 10 - 64bits - TM WARTHOG #889 - Saitek Pro Rudder.
Razor5-1 Posted August 14, 2012 Posted August 14, 2012 Holding my CFS 2 manual in my hand right now! still read it from time to time..
avec Posted August 14, 2012 Posted August 14, 2012 (edited) Here are some of my dearest sim moments My first sim was "The Dam Busters" for C64 in 1984. Then came GUNSHIP for C64 in 1986 (this was soo cool) Electronic Arts - F/A-18 Interceptor for Amiga in 1988 (this was when the graphics took off :megalol:) GUNSHIP 2000 for Amiga in 1991 (things started to get advanced) Janes Apache Longbow for pc in 1996 (one of my absolutely first pc games. Oh how I loved this game) Janes Apache Longbow 2 for pc in 1997 Lock On: Modern Air Combat in 2003 My first DCS module was A-10C Worthog in 2012 and many more modules after that. AH-64 Apache Longbow was so nice to see becoming a module after all these years. Edited May 11, 2022 by avec fixed typo
Aries Posted November 17, 2012 Posted November 17, 2012 (edited) Check out this cool review of A-10 Attack & Cuba by SiliconClassics: VBE - Virtual Battlefield Environment, even then the idea of what we live today (merit of ED) egzisted... a modular combat environment... :thumbup: Edited November 18, 2012 by Aries [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] ...the few, the proud, the remaining...
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