Your favourite combat/flight sim

Well, there is a way… Just rip it off your keyboard. But only with an old keyboard, then. Don’t waste an expensib keyboard for that 😉

I’m not sure it is possible to reconfigure it through software means.

Thanks for the helpEGNM. One more question, theres a key on most keyboards between the contol and alt key with the MS logo on it. And with the XP OS, if you accidently press that button while playing a game your sent back to the desktop. Is there any way to disable that key?

Ahh the days of small files is gone… I remember getting an Amiga 500 and the operating system (workbench) came on two floppies. (one was the op sys and the other had extras).
I thought at the time that it was good enough… it seemed to do everything windows does now, but stored on two 880K floppy disks…

Originally posted by geedee
Flight sim?

MS Flt Sim 4 (runs off one floppy disk !!!)

I can beat that!

I actually have FS1 – runs off a compact cassette on a Tandy TRS80 or clone.

Those 16k graphics really grab you. It even had some elementary combat.

Yes that’s right

Not 16 gig ……. not 16 Mb ……. just 16K

Whatever happened to programming skills?

Moggy

Flightsim 2K2 you can take screenshots using the PRINT SCREEN button, but you have to immidiatly past the doc onto a photofile or Word or wherever. I have a prog which automatically stores them for you to sort at the end of the sector tho which is pritty gud

“and loads of expansion packs and stuff downloaded from the net”
geedee- Where do you get this stuff? www.avsim.com and www.flightsim.com were suggested to me on my combat pc game thread, but I cant find much of anything on either site.

What do you think of SOF2? Im ashamed to admit I had to make extensive use cheats and walkthroughs to get through that as it would have taken me forever to figure it out on my own.

Can anyone tell me if you can take screen shots with Flight Simulater 2002?

Installed Raven Shield last night, the 3rd in the Rainbow series from Tom Clancy.

It required 2 Gigs, but apart from it’s thirst for hard drive space, it is supberb! I loved Rogue Spear and was eagerly awaiting the next outing of the Rainbow team.

Graphics and sound are supberb, shed loads of weapons and a great deal of strategy is needed to combat the terrorists.

Great fun!

Top 3 are:
Il-2 Sturmovic (havent tried FB)
(Rowans)Battle of Britain
OpFlashpoint(cobra attack helo)

Il-2 is so close to perfect, its little faults really nag me: the shape and size of Me-109 props, the gumby shaped pilot when he bails out, the sounds of jets and divebombers(which I guess they fixed in FB), black dot shaped enemy at a distance.

Battle of Britian is billed as a stratigac game, but its not, its just an excelent flight sim covering the best fighter campaign ever, between the spitfire vs Me-109. Just ignore all the stratigac setup mumbo jumbo and enjoy dogfights in your fighter with hundreds of germans in the air against hundreds of british. The modeled physics and AI are top notch (As good as Il-2), and if they ever upgrade the graphics to Il-2 level, this will be an all time classic, although planes viewed at a distace are even better and more realistic than Il-2.

The people who did OpFP really should turn the Cobra attack helo flying part of that game into a full flight sim. The stick/rudder is controled by the mouse and cyclic stick by pageup/down buttons, so your really flying it rather that just giveing it directions with the W,A,S,D buttons. That means if you yank back real hard on the stick at 150kts, youll crash out of contol. The graphics of the helo itself are good and overall this game makes a game like Comanche4 look like cheap garbage.

Crimson Skys could be good if they ever upgrade the graphics from its current max of 800×600. I got stuck playing SOF2 last night and used the noclip cheat to fly around the hong kong market to find a way out, and I enjoyed it.

Flight sim?

in order

1. CFS2
2. B17
3. CRIMSON SKIES

Ive also got
Falcon 4
European air war
IL2
MS Flt Sim 4 (runs off one floppy disk !!!)
MS Flt Sim 5
MS Flt Sim 95
MS FLt Sim 98
MS FLt Sim 2000
MS FLt Sim 2002 Pro
Flight unilimited 2
Apache Havoc
FA18 Korea
Flying corps Gold
Mig Alley
Airfix dogfighter
and loads of expansion packs and stuff downloaded from the net

Combat games in order

1. Medal of Honour
2. Kingpin
3. Return to Castle wolfenstein

I’ve also got
Half Life (brilliant)
Half Life opposing force
Blue Shift
Gunman Chronicles
Evil twin
Star Trek Voyager Elite Force
Thief
Thief The Metal Age
Unreal plus expansion pack
Codename eagle
Heretic
Soldier of fortune

and a shed load of driving / other games.

I play all these games in a sort of rota fashion, finish one and start the next. I’m currently playing Thief, Medal of Honour, Kingpin, CFS2, and dabble with the driving games.

Hey, loadsa games ?…too right mate, thats what I brought the Pc for in the first place…not to do home accounting or letters on !. Sides which, it gives me an alternative to suffering Eastenders, Holby City, Casualty, Corrie and the list goes on…and on…and on !

IL2

Mosquito Squadron add-on to CFS2

Warbirds Online

Moggy

Soft spot from years ago for Chuck Yeager’s one. You could fly a Phantom against the WW2 Luftwaffe with Chuck offering helpful advice. Bizarre