Some of you older combat flight Sims jerks as myself, remember before online gaming there were only flight based boxed Simulations/Games. Back in the early eighties Combat Sims like Their Finest Hour, BOB were disk based. We had to change disks (insert disk 2) to play. With old DOS systems like DOS 2.1 we could make a disk to alter the Auto.exe file to free up memory so we could REM lines and drop some files that we could free up memory to play the games,copy the altered file to disk (boot disk) and play the game. (remember at this time 256k memory was huge! Yes 256k.)
As time passed the games became better, especially graphics. We had to upgrade PCs and Video Cards to play. Also back then memory came board sized. Anyhow, after awhile an upgrade would have to be made to a PC that had a hard drive and a higher performing CPU. Unfortunately boxed sets like Janes etc. stopped being produced. Reasons, back then flight sim fans were not great in number. We were regarded as Snobs for authenticity etc. As a result fewer people played Flight Sims and the production of flight sims at that time was very expensive! Those who produced them were losing money
because sales couldn't cover production costs.
I'm saying if it weren't for MMOG SIMS like Air Warrior we wouldn't be playing today. And yes there are far more gamers' playing AH today then ever. AH has not changed, just the number of gamers versus those who love the history and accuracy of combat in the sky's during WWII. I basically only play in Scenarios for that reason. It's a pity.
