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Offline CptTrips

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Re: Thinking about setting up something to play old classic flight sims
« Reply #15 on: November 02, 2025, 09:16:15 AM »
Sometimes just a bit of the music is enough.

Now you are talking!  I had mapped all of Skara Brae on graph paper.

We were so easily satisfied back then. ;)
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Re: Thinking about setting up something to play old classic flight sims
« Reply #16 on: November 02, 2025, 09:21:49 AM »
Has anyone setup something that would run  F19, SWOTL and the Microprose stuff like BoB and Srike Eagle III? Wow, I'm having flashbacks to Megafortress lol.

Yeah.  My favorite game of alllllll time was the original Red Baron.  That is what got me interested in flight sims.

Meh.  Graphics and sound matter.  Anyone who claims they don't, are full of hooey. 

Or as Thomas Wolfe said, "You can never go back home again."

Or Allie Fox, "Dead things go down stream mother, life is upstream!"

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Re: Thinking about setting up something to play old classic flight sims
« Reply #17 on: November 02, 2025, 10:36:03 AM »
Now you are talking!  I had mapped all of Skara Brae on graph paper.

We were so easily satisfied back then. ;)

I wasn't smart enough to use graph paper back then. Maybe that's why I wasn't ever able to complete Bards tale or Bards tale II.

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Re: Thinking about setting up something to play old classic flight sims
« Reply #18 on: November 02, 2025, 10:42:59 AM »
I wasn't smart enough to use graph paper back then. Maybe that's why I wasn't ever able to complete Bards tale or Bards tale II.

OK.  Call me a geek, without calling me a geek...

Mounted it on cardboard and used a pin I moved around to keep track of where I was at any move.

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Re: Thinking about setting up something to play old classic flight sims
« Reply #19 on: November 02, 2025, 09:51:03 PM »
OK.  Call me a geek, without calling me a geek...

Mounted it on cardboard and used a pin I moved around to keep track of where I was at any move.

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Re: Thinking about setting up something to play old classic flight sims
« Reply #20 on: November 02, 2025, 10:34:50 PM »

LoL.

Speaking of awesome games of the past, remember this one?


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A good one from '91.

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I was only around 11 years old and getting older just waiting for this to load via tape drive. Played it a lot on the Commodore 64.  :grin:


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What was the game that had Mobius in it? A Playstation game. I loved that game about 20 years ago.
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I was only around 11 years old and getting older just waiting for this to load via tape drive. Played it a lot on the Commodore 64.  :grin:

Almost made me sad when they closed Meigs field.
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