My my how far we've come

[DREDIOCK]

Anyone remember

their Finist Hour

[Lusche]

I remember the superb FM.

In campaign mode I used to sweep ahead my buff squadrons in a lone Ju87. After shooting down all 10 or 12 enemy Spitfires I always landed on our target airfield to watch my buffs dropping the load. Upping again to bomb the few installations they had missed...

[Nangleator]

I remember that game so fondly.  It's probably out there as abandonware now, but I couldn't handle the audio, never mind the video limitations.

I got so good that I could handle any number of enemy planes.  Yes, the Stuka was a great fighter, too.

That game taught me, when the top turret runs out of ammo, flip the plan on its belly and use the belly turret.

[redneb]

I've been wanting to b*tch about the current maps, but after seeing your video, I think I'll keep my mouth shut.....

[trax1]

What game was that?

[Keiler]

Battle of Britain: Their Finest Hour
by LucasGames


I played that on a 8MHz XT with 640kb of RAM... and a mouse...
and an amber monitor on EGA settings... Uarg.. the memories...

Matt

[Anyone]

pc's was almost unheard of in the UK when that was made.....lol

my mates first pc was a 33mhz with 2mb ram and cost Ł3000 ($6000 at todays exchange rate) my first a year later was 100mhz (cyrix tho) and 8mb ram for Ł2500 ($5000) lol

[killnu]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=m7XzWfwicKY&mode=related&search=

I prefer...

[Nangleator]

My first flight sim was Chuch Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator.  (Microsoft came along later and threatened to sue, so they changed it to Flight Trainer instead.)

4 color flight simulator.  The sky was cyan, the ground was a tan color, and the few objects were made out of a brown and black.  When you hit the turbo button on your XT, everything would happen twice as fast.

Still, I played it obsessively.  My favorite part was the badly designed planes that were very difficult to stay alive in.

20 meg hard drive on that XT.  I carry around 10 times that much storage on my keychain now.

[Shifty]

LOL

I spent hours playing TFH and Battlehawks 1942. Then got SWOTL, and later the Dynamix programs Aces over the Pacific and Aces over Europe. My first combat fly sim was Hellcat Ace back in 1986. I played it on an Atari 800 computer. It was on cassette, and took about 10 minutes to load. Yep things have changed for the better, but that brings back great memories.

[Nangleator]

Okay, ancient computer one-upsmanship, is it?

First computer I programmed used punch cards, had a printer for 'display' and played only one game.  It concerned landing artillery on a target, and snarked at you badly for every missed shot.

[SteveBailey]

My first computer was a rock.  
If you posititioned it just right you could come sort of close to telling what time it was by its' shadow.
 It played a couple of  games, " Boink your neighbor on the head with a rock." and "Stealth Vandal".  Stealth Vandal was really challenging.  You had to throw a rock through various windows which was relatively easy but then you had to go into the structure and retrieve your rock because it was the only one you had!   Mad home and business owners would shoot at you and then there were the police chases... oh the high drama of the early pc.

[KONG1]

I can beat that.  My first computer had no keyboard or punch reader, just switches to input data a byte at a time. No monitor or printer for output just little lights. The game was to get it to do anything useful.

[Nangleator]

Okay, I can beat the rock.  My first computer was formless and void.  It was really hard to see the display because darkness was over the surface of the deep.  I got a little ticked off at the display resolution, so I typed "LET THERE BE LIGHT EXECUTE "

Things have gotten really complicated since then.  All sorts of crashes and illegal operations.  I'm considering a reboot.

[JohnnyT]

I had that on my Atari ST! Ahhhhh the memories....