Vietnam-era flightsims?

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On 8 Jan 2008 19:50:25 GMT, Juergen Nieveler
<juergen.nieveler.nospam DeleteThis @arcor.de> wrote:

>Rolf Blom <all.spam DeleteThis @round.bin> wrote:
>
>><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_Over_Vietnam>
>>
>> I don't have it, but it is the one vietnam-era flightsim I know of.
>
>There used to be "Flight of the Intruder", but that probably won't run
>on modern machines.

And ofcourse Mig Alley (1999)
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On 2008-01-09 13:46, Mark wrote:
> On 8 Jan 2008 19:50:25 GMT, Juergen Nieveler
> <juergen.nieveler.nospam.DeleteThis@arcor.de> wrote:
>
>>Rolf Blom <all.spam.DeleteThis@round.bin> wrote:
>>
>>><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_Over_Vietnam>
>>>
>>> I don't have it, but it is the one vietnam-era flightsim I know of.
>>
>>There used to be "Flight of the Intruder", but that probably won't run
>>on modern machines.
>
> And ofcourse Mig Alley (1999)

That is a Korea-war sim, and focuses on the earlier jets; not what the
OP was asking for. But it is certainly still playable today.


(I do have FotI, but indeed it will not play well on modern machines;
most of the old dos flightsims I've tried (in DosBox) are hard to
achieve consistent performance in, with todays fast hardware, even if
they can be partly playable; they can get too jittery to control, or
fails in weapon delivery).

Also there's a helo sim, called 'Vietnam Med Evac', though it isn't
quite in the same genre, and also a bit dated graphically while it runs
fine on xp.
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"Phred" <nospam.TakeThisOut@here.com> schreef in bericht
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>I want to fly the Phantom, Thunderchief, Super Sabre and the others - which
> is the best Vietnam-era flightsim out there?
>
>
and there is always Wings Over Vietnam from Third Wire, don't have it but
having a lot of fun with First Eagles & Wings Over Europe:
https://store.thirdwire.com/store.htm
https://store.thirdwire.com/store.htm
You could be in the air within the hour: download and patches available -
one does not need a cd in the drive either.
Has high resolution available but can play on almost every pc, for vista
you'll need some fixing of terrain folder but you can read up on that in the
forums.
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On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:26:30 +0100, Rolf Blom <all.spam RemoveThis @round.bin>
wrote:

>On 2008-01-09 13:46, Mark wrote:
>> On 8 Jan 2008 19:50:25 GMT, Juergen Nieveler
>> <juergen.nieveler.nospam RemoveThis @arcor.de> wrote:
>>
>>>Rolf Blom <all.spam RemoveThis @round.bin> wrote:
>>>
>>>><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_Over_Vietnam>
>>>>
>>>> I don't have it, but it is the one vietnam-era flightsim I know of.
>>>
>>>There used to be "Flight of the Intruder", but that probably won't run
>>>on modern machines.
>>
>> And ofcourse Mig Alley (1999)
>
>That is a Korea-war sim, and focuses on the earlier jets; not what the
>OP was asking for. But it is certainly still playable today.
>
Ah- you must be right. Haven't played it for too many years I guess, I
must be confusing it with something else. (looks at box.. hmm.)
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Thanks, I've just downloaded and installed WOV.

Do folks play it online? I don't think the MiGs are flyable so I'm guessing
multiplayer games would have to be co-ops?
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On Jan 8, 2:01�am, "Phred" <nos... DeleteThis @here.com> wrote:
> I want to fly the Phantom, Thunderchief, Super Sabre and the others - which
> is the best Vietnam-era flightsim out there?

Jane's USAF has Viet Nam campaigns right out of the box, and the mod
community is still at work.
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On Jan 17, 8:39 pm, tomcervo <tomce....TakeThisOut@aol.com> wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2:01�am, "Phred" <nos....TakeThisOut@here.com> wrote:
>
> > I want to fly the Phantom, Thunderchief, Super Sabre and the others - which
> > is the best Vietnam-era flightsim out there?
>
> Jane's USAF has Viet Nam campaigns right out of the box, and the mod
> community is still at work.

Wings Over Europe with the community freeware NATO expansions lets you
fly lots of old iron.
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On Jan 18, 3:43 pm, scharm....DeleteThis@gmail.com wrote:
> On Jan 17, 8:39 pm, tomcervo <tomce....DeleteThis@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jan 8, 2:01�am, "Phred" <nos....DeleteThis@here.com> wrote:
>
> > > I want to fly the Phantom, Thunderchief, Super Sabre and the others - which
> > > is the best Vietnam-era flightsim out there?
>
> > Jane's USAF has Viet Nam campaigns right out of the box, and the mod
> > community is still at work.
>
> Wings Over Europe with the community freeware NATO expansions lets you
> fly lots of old iron.

Cue: Whining about how TK's survey sims are generic and lightweight.
Never mind that sometimes he seems to be trying to keep the genre
alive singlehandedly--aside from the vaporware whose release date
keeps creeping up to the next quarter.
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:43:34 -0800 (PST), scharmers.DeleteThis@gmail.com wrote:

>On Jan 17, 8:39 pm, tomcervo <tomce....DeleteThis@aol.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 8, 2:01?am, "Phred" <nos....DeleteThis@here.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I want to fly the Phantom, Thunderchief, Super Sabre and the others - which
>> > is the best Vietnam-era flightsim out there?
>>
>> Jane's USAF has Viet Nam campaigns right out of the box, and the mod
>> community is still at work.
>
>Wings Over Europe with the community freeware NATO expansions lets you
>fly lots of old iron.

wow, Scharmers! where have you been.
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tomcervo wrote:

> Cue: Whining about how TK's survey sims are generic and lightweight.

Yea, well they are. I've bought every one of his games except WoV and am
not buying anymore because they are all quite boring. So waht if they
have lots of planes to fly, the game engine is just dull and boring.
Sort of like you.
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>"tomcervo" <tomcervo.DeleteThis@aol.com> wrote in message
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>On Jan 18, 3:43 pm, scharm....DeleteThis@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Jan 17, 8:39 pm, tomcervo <tomce....DeleteThis@aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Jan 8, 2:01?am, "Phred" <nos....DeleteThis@here.com> wrote:
>>
>> > > I want to fly the Phantom, Thunderchief, Super Sabre and the others -
which
>> > > is the best Vietnam-era flightsim out there?
>>
>> > Jane's USAF has Viet Nam campaigns right out of the box, and the mod
>> > community is still at work.
>>
>> Wings Over Europe with the community freeware NATO expansions lets you
>> fly lots of old iron.
>
>Cue: Whining about how TK's survey sims are generic and lightweight.
>Never mind that sometimes he seems to be trying to keep the genre
>alive singlehandedly--aside from the vaporware whose release date
>keeps creeping up to the next quarter.

How does realism compare between the sims? I've never flown any of these
planes IRL so have no idea.

I've been playing WOV for a couple weeks now, it's very nice but could use
some polish (eg. carrier operations are poorly modelled)
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