Vintage Dam Busters flight sim

:FI:Sneaky_Russian · Post by **:FI:Sneaky_Russian** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:24 pm

http://www.migman.com/ref/1980_combat/D ... usters.htm

I dont remember this but did have-
http://www.migman.com/ref/1980_combat/F ... tPilot.htm

Skipper · Post by **Skipper** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:14 pm

Looks good.....(I admit the graphics are a little of the pace though

)

Shame we don't have anything like this with the il2 engine but I guess there might not be much demand....

Skipper

Menace · Post by **Menace** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 8:12 pm

Oh DOG! Keep this away from Keppoch! He was totally addicted to it in the Eighties!

:FI:Cider · Post by **:FI:Cider** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 9:33 pm

oh my!

played this game too!
too fast! too high!

is there someone who played "the little hobbit" (forgot the name of the game, but it follows J.r.r.Tolkiens book) on the c64?

"kill gandalf".....

good times.

winter olympics (epic) was great, too....

the ultima's (on the commodore) were fun, too. i still remember the ads in various computer mags.

We had some magazines FULL of (BASIC)source code to type in your machine (commodore, spectrum...) and the games were GREAT. And you learned a bit bout programming 'cause there were lots of printing errors in the listings that days.

Ha, games were sold on tapes way back then. we used to copy them on a friends hi-fi system. soloflight comes to my mind. VERY addictive. MS Flight sim never got close to the gameplay (mail-delivering). Of course, the (MS) flight model was better (FS II). There was also some kind of "dogfight "-mode where you could bomb ground targets and engage enemy biplanes.The mountains were jus triangles.

yeah, dambusters was a gem!

:FI:Ci"where have all the good times gone"der

Post by **:FI:Mefisto** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 9:25 am

http://www.endlager.net/fis/phpBB2/view ... t=tomahawk

the tomahawk was lovely...

:FI:Scott · Post by **:FI:Scott** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 9:42 am

They did this game for the BBC-B too. It was fab IF you get the tape to load!!!

:FI:Igor · Post by **:FI:Igor** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:05 pm

Cider,
C64, yeah we're old. Typing in programs from the back of magazines; oh yeah. Great games; learned alot from doing that.

Igor

:FI:Sneaky_Russian · Post by **:FI:Sneaky_Russian** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:46 pm

rgr that , things were a lot more accessible then. all that POKEing and PEEKing.

Went the Speccy-Atari ST route myself. the ST is still a great MIDI device.
Still got the 4mb ST for a synth editor (4mb laughable now)

Menace · Post by **Menace** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:49 pm

I had a Colecovision Adam, with that crazy high speed tape drive. Pretty slick setup, and the Daisy Wheel printer sounded like a firing range!

Brought new meaning to Banging off a Letter. Or old meaning. Or something.... Mattress *puts bag on head*

fighter_bomber · Post by **fighter_bomber** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 10:28 pm

I spent about 2 years of my life playing wolfenstein 3d and err, the whistle.

Nightcat · Post by **Nightcat** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 5:02 pm

I got a boxed as new, spectrum 48k (the rubber key gaming computer of dreams)

Treasure Island, Icicle Works and Exorcist were a good start (C16)

Moved onto Ace, Spy Hunter, The Hobbit & Elite (I remember the trolls killing me repeatedly) (spectrum 48k)

Games got better, Carrier Command, Lotus Elise & still playing Elite (on my 128k +2!)

All time favorite had to be Cyclone (even though Elite was still on the agenda with a newer version)

Had to fly a helicopter around avoiding a cyclone and save lil people from islands and take them back to base. Was great fun, if the cyclone got to close you would have to land wherever and you would be ok lol go figure. Hours of fun, I remember other aircraft you would have to avoid too.
Wish there was a 2006 version..

NC

Menace · Post by **Menace** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:41 am

Man, mentioning Elite makes me wish Maddox would make a space sim. Maybe something like that Battlestar Galactica series.

Nightcat · Post by **Nightcat** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:57 am

Battlecruiser Millenium Gold Edition is very much like that, its very technical and would take some time to figure out. Might be worth a look, if you fancy being a fighter pilot or fancy a job in the Admirals seat its all there. It's not to recent so fairly cheap to buy.

Course the better alternative which is much simpler is X2/X3 the threat, but your left to your own devices if you break away from the limited story I thinks.

2 credits worth!

NC

:FI:Scott · Post by **:FI:Scott** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:37 pm

Elite, Me and a friend must have spent days on that game. Some interesting Elite stuff here :

http://www.frontier.co.uk/index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Elite club (which has a link through the above has versions to d/l which apparantly work on XP?.

Menace · Post by **Menace** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:37 am

NOOOO!!! Just started playing System Shock 2 with the high res models DON'T do this to me guys!