Well they had a couple of those pre-soldered ones left, but they aren’t shipping to the US at the moment.
Pity, they look like a good Track-IR alternative.
Been messing around with my Longbow 1 and 2 and more Jane’s titles during my quarantine. Here is some playlists of my recordings:
Read Jane’s:
Jane’s AH-64D Longbow Tutorial Video:
Jane’s Longbow 2 Training Missions:
Longbow Gold with 3Dfx:
Jane’s Combat Simulation Trivia:
How did you get them working?!
Awesome. Brings back pleasant memories. Owned both back in the day and also had a diamond monster 3D card which blew my mind at the time. Are you using nGlide for the glide wrapper?
And yes, to Brian’s point, I assume a lot of wizardry was required to get them working? God knows where my disks are - either in my mum’s basement or in a landfill somewhere…
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But yeah, definitely an important look at the most significant flight sim of our time. 90s-style, completely seat-of-the-pants development, and folks are still playing it.
I just went crazy, ordered blindly a little something for 20 bucks, got it in 2 days, and been wondering why I didn’t do it years ago:
I blame someBrianone’s propaganda.
Been running it in Dosbox (EF-2000!), IL-2 1946 and Red Baron 3D, all through Wine on Mac OS X, and seems to work near perfectly :O
OOMMMGGGG CONGRATS! I am so happy for you!
Congratulations, that is one fine bit of hardware you got there.
Combine it with a VR headset and il-2 flying Circus and you’ll be in flightsim nirvana (and a William Gibson short story).
Also where did you find a red one, no less, for $20?!
This article was great. Making the campaign at the outset to be a strategy game explains so much.
You guys may be interested to know Matt Wagner, the producer of DCS, hired a developer with specific RTS experience about a year ago. I wonder what that guy is cookin’ up in his little niche at the office.
No idea there were variations!
I just ordered it from some dude in my country on Rakuten. The guy answered a few questions over the months and about the working state, he just told he couldn’t be bothered with testing (I understand it, it’s quite tricky to “test”), that he just cleaned it up to the best he could and loved the joystick when he was younger. People being wary is the only reason I guess this one was still up, as most go for twice to five times this price.
He sounded genuinely not being an ass and was from the town I was born (it’s important!), so I gave it a try, and glad I did.
This is a really, really good toy, even in an environment not meant for it. I hope I’ll get a PC again someday!
Yeah, there’s the first edition with the plastic handle and a green light, and the second edition with a rubberized handle and a red light. The second edition is rarer and usually more expensive, so kudos to you!
If it’s like the rest of DCS, a ⅔-finished dynamic campaign?
That sounds meaner than I intend it to be. The ¼-finished community dynamic campaign options are almost enough to make me play DCS on the regular. ⅔ is probably over the line.
Nah, you got a point there. Flight sims have always been a 2/3rds dine, let’s get it to the users affair.
I have grown to see it as part & parcel of the genre. The great microprose sims of yore all needed patching. Some were utterly unplayable at release such as falcon4.
The real downside imo to DCS being in constant development is that it’s hard on the content creators. The goalposts keep getting moved around, and bugs keep popping up in already released and tested content. What worked last week might be broken the next. That sucks. But it’s also the price of progress.
so i was wondering what flight combat sim was good or at least busy nowadays? i assume il2? but there are a bunch of packs and releases for that and i was wondering if i needed a base game or what.
i was also wondering if there was a ways to fly around as a four engine bomber with ai gunners? i did that years ago with il-2 ( add “pe8” to list of playable planes, make a server, exit, then join an online server).
Modern il2 is sold in packs. Each pack contains all of it, but gives access to a certain number of cockpits and maps. Sadly it does not contain 4 engines bombers, but it does have twins, such as the B-20. You can be gunner on that. You can buy for example Flying Circus and Battle of Kuban, and then play the aforementioned B-20 vs a swarm of fokker dr.1 triplanes :D
DCS is the other modern flight combat sim from Russia. It’s mostly focused on modern stuff, even if you can buy ww2 stuff for it. It comes as a base game, containing one map and two planes for free. The free planes are mildly interesting and not very representative of what a really good plane* plays like.
Maps and planes are sold separately, except for “flaming cliffs 3” which is a bundle of planes that lack clickable cockpits.
Both sims are absolutely fantastic VR experiences. Both sims leave something to be desired as games.
Theres also still falcon4 being actively developed by community devs if you don’t care for VR. It is a superb game besides a fine flight sim.
*: An example of a really good DCS plane is the F-14 tomcat. It is exquisitely detailed in both looks and inner workings. It rattles and shakes and both plane and robot backseater talk to you in a tactically meaningful way. It is very much worth the price of admission.
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There’s a big sale on IL-2 stuff right now, too: https://il2sturmovik.com/store/battle-of-kuban/
Great looking and really fun sim.
