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Rock-Head · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 193 Location: Colorado

If you comment on this website, then you most likely enjoy most of the FS products that have been available to us all for the past fifteen years.

Here is my question...

What is your favorite and why do you like it?

It doesn't matter what kind of rig you have or how fast it is. The question is... What is your favorite FS product and why?

My favorite is FS Y2K. Most of you may have never heard of it. It is my favorite because it required a hands on approach to Sim Flying. You had to adjust the pressure in the cabin and so on... It was a fun Sim...

What is your old time Fave?..

RockHead

skipperdan · Joined: 10 Aug 2003 Posts: 1296 Location: Florida

My favorites are all of my aircraft from the Middle Atlantic Air Museum. Since I have attended their annual WWII Show many years in a row and because I have met two of the main programmers, I have a special preference for their products.

Besides the above feelings, I can honestly say that the following aircraft from MAAM have the "BEST" realism and the most detailed features (inside and outside) of all my aircraft.

B25 Briefing Time
C47/DC3/R4D
TBM

Check out their website and see for yourself: 8) 8)

Take a look at the these videos to get a real gut feeling:
http://www.maam.org/flightsim/demovids/demovid.htm

Click on an Icon to learn about each aircraft
http://www.maam.org/flightsim/PACKAGES/PACKAGES.htm

Note: I love walking through the insides of the B25 and DC3/C47/R4D
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groundsquirrel · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 12:46 pm Post subject: mine...

My old fave was F22-Lightning2. The battle realism was very good, but when the machine language started to change it became impossible to run on any but the 486 engines. Then came Falcon4.0-Allied Force, what I consider to be the most realistic of all the sims I have tried for desktop PCs.

Cat1 · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 7:45 pm Post subject:

Difficult question...
I liked the Jane's Defense series that were put out in the past. The flight models were not really accurate, but that isn't what they were about and I didn't miss it. I liked to blow stuff up. Also any thing with the Microprose moniker was decent as well for it's time.

With F-19 we used to invite the squadron pilots in the the BEQ for a shot of Jack and an Espresso with the promise of a flight mission. Several took us up on the offer and strangely, the fixers always won over the fliers.

I still, as well as many others, fly FS04. My system is not really able to support the play requirements of FSX. It looks like a slide show.

Rock-Head · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 193 Location: Colorado

I love the old "Janes" stuff. Unfortunately, I haven't found anything new from "Janes" lately. My new graphics card (Radeon 950) doesn't allow all the visuals from the old stuff to display properly. It still runs just fine. But the graphics are a little funky. And you are right. The new stuff is like a slide show.

I'm "Stuck in the middle again".

Rock-Head

harkonnen · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:28 am Post subject:

From what I have read, Jane's flight sims were a part of EA games and was put out to pasture years ago. My very first flight sim experience was with a few Novalogic fighter sims, then some old Jane's stuff (Jane's Fighter Anthology.) Yeah, I miss the Jane's stuff too, particularly their FA-18 sim that won't play on my Windows 2000.

Cat1 · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:13 pm Post subject:

Ah... Good ole NovaLogic...
Creators of Jetfighter and Jetfighter II...
Quirky story line though... World being taken over, the masses have been all but passivated by BIG BROTHER, and the local Cali street gangs being the only ones having guns. #-o
Then we get INVADED! 8O
And depend on a multimillion dollar Jet fighter to come to our rescue, using :roll: DUMB BOMBS with toss bombing techniques and cannons so inaccurately aimed that you were more likely to shoot yourself down.
I was and apparently still am angered by that little point.
It was OK to have Kinetic energy Intercept Missiles (KIMs) that you had to use to shoot down cruise missiles bound for California, which was about as effective as throwing a ham sandwich down a hall way to clear the hallway of bad guys, but they couldn't model in a decent bombing system, or an air to ground missile. :-s

:-$ I even bought Jetfighter II hoping it was fixed, it wasn't.

Janes has been pastured for as Hark said, a long while now. Seems to me to be since around 1997 to 1998 time frame.

groundsquirrel · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:18 am Post subject: I still have...

I still have my JetFighterIV:Fortress America, it was definitely a solid player. If you use it there is a fix you need to get for it to play in current OS's.

Cat1 · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 2:22 am Post subject:

WAIT!!!
I could have the wrong manufacturer with the wrong game!
What I can remember is that the box for the later version had a triangular shaped flap that folded back into the main box. It was also in black and white horizontal bands across the top of the box.
Is this the same one? I don't mind trashing a game if it's horrible but I like to trash the correct one.

Rock-Head · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 193 Location: Colorado

Let us all get our products correct here. When I speak about "Janes" products, I'm talking about "USAF" or "FA-18 Super Hornet" and the like. I may be wrong, but I do not believe that "Jet Fighter" was a "Janes" product. I could never get "Jet Fighter" to run properly. But the old "Janes" stuff ran great on my old rig.

In 1991, I had a game called "Jet Fighter". It was a shoot down cruise missles and save the world kind of game. It was corney yet still fun. But it was nothing compared to the "Janes USAF" game made in 1999.

The "USAF" one was OK, but not good compared to "Janes FA-18 Super Hornet" which I have still not yet seen a match compared to the complexity of the avionics and radar. The radar on "Janes FA-18 Super Hornet" is so complex and difficult to operate that after ten years, I still haven't mastered it yet. I don't have that kind of patience. lol...

The flight operations on the carrier are very cool and realistic. Kind of...

I have been looking but I can't find much on the market today that compares to some of the old stuff. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places.

Any and all ideas and or suggestions are always welcome.

Rock-Head

groundsquirrel · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:09 am Post subject: as far as...

As far as the most recent, there is Lock On Modern Air Combat:Flaming Cliffs and Combat Flight Simulator III. Not much in the way of immersive simming written since then, except for FSX of course.

Rock-Head · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 193 Location: Colorado

Does FSX have combat sims?

rd · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:55 am Post subject:

Rock-Head · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 193 Location: Colorado

NO!!! Well, that's the shortest answer I ever got on this site. Quick and straight to the point. I like it. 8)

Rock-Head

rd · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:15 am Post subject:

:lol: :lol:

There wasn't really anything more to add, to your question.

When they have FSX squared away, and the computers of 2010 come around, they may come out with a "Combat Sim X".

Just think of it.... You have all the details, effects, and scenery of FSX, and then the capability to actually shoot or missile down your opponent, as never seen before.

Is it possible?? Yes! Will it be true? Who knows!!

RD