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My first was Battlehawks 1942 by Lucas Arts. I bought it in 1989. Had to go out and upgrade from an EGA monitor to VGA which really pissed my wife off. A PC type computer cost about two grand in those days-which might be over four grand in today's dollars.

VGA monitor, 40 Megabyte HD and 2 megs of RAM and an intel 286 processor. I was living large back then...Flying those zeros.

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

There are at least 2 new WW2 Pacific flight sims coming out on Steam in the near future...

I saw them and wasnt that great and still arcade styles, War Thunder will probably be much better.

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My first was Battlehawks 1942 by Lucas Arts. I bought it in 1989. Had to go out and upgrade from an EGA monitor to VGA which really pissed my wife off. A PC type computer cost about two grand in those days-which might be over four grand in today's dollars.

VGA monitor, 40 Megabyte HD and 2 megs of RAM and an intel 286 processor. I was living large back then...Flying those zeros.

Heh i alot of fun playing that back then, look like running under 8bit color. Hard to believe back in mid 80s with pc games and now it is really huge with impressive graphics.

Battlehawks 1942!!!

This was the start of my interest in flight sims and pacific war in special.

Played many game after it and i remember my beloved Falcon 4...with the best dynamic campaign ever created.

To bad modern sims had no such dynamics...

Sometimes i play IL2 were i mostly fly in the pacific.

Take a look in to free falcon but i dont like it...

Falcon 4.0 Allied force

Picked this one up a while ago. Due to AE(and others),could not put much
time into it. How much "rulebook" time will i need to learn how to fly
this sim?



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Falcon 4.0 Allied force

Picked this one up a while ago. Due to AE(and others),could not put much
time into it. How much "rulebook" time will i need to learn how to fly
this sim?



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I think its about 700 pages. [;)][:D] But as with every other flight sim you can switch difficulty settings(including avionics from very simplified to real thing) on, off and in between. The Falcon 4.0 BMS full game modification is pretty cool, updates the game to 2012, other than the core engine of course.

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Falcon 4.0 Allied force

Picked this one up a while ago. Due to AE(and others),could not put much
time into it. How much "rulebook" time will i need to learn how to fly
this sim?



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The game has a good autopilot included. You can put it on autopilot and have it taxi and take off and fly you to your target. From there, you can take over and do your mission and then break off and put it back on auto pilot and it will fly you back to your base and land for you.

The game can be simplified to where your engines start up with the press of one button. Actually flying the craft is pretty simple. The F-16 has excellent power to weight and maneuverability. The biggest challenge is managing your radar and weapons systems.
Locating threats, targets, navigating and managing your 'office'. And you have to do all this while being conscious of threats, AA sites, enemy fighters and Allies.

biggest challenge is managing your radar and weapons systems

I had the old(DOS 5.0) of Falcon 3.0 some time back. Could never seem to win any
of the built in campaigns. Would either have my entire squadron shot down within 10
days,or run out of squadron fuel allocations,thus grounded until the next
resupply day.

The radar system was(to me) perplexing, with different modes & ranges to be set.
I seem to remember a forest of SAM's to avoid, & wingmen who did not always
fight logically.


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