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Air Combat Sims Anonymous 08/03/19 (Sat) 18:37:22 d77a72 No.16754641

I'm about to download Jane's Air Combat sims (Jane was curiously the name of my grandmother) and wondering if they're any good?

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Anonymous 08/03/19 (Sat) 18:44:12 a7a972 No.16754657

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Jane's were once the pinnacle of military hardware simulations. Where computers couldn't make due in graphics like they can know, they took full advantage of the processing power for mathematics necessary to make these work as realistically as possible.

The last great flight sim that I know of was Falcon 4.0 by MicroProse. Flight simulations didn't seem like the niche genre they are now.

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Anonymous 08/03/19 (Sat) 19:26:32 d77a72 No.16754793

>>16754657

I got them from the Internet Archive. while I've known they've always existed, these games are huge HD space consumers

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Anonymous 08/03/19 (Sat) 19:51:04 182acf No.16754861

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I can't speak from experience on Jane's series, but good choices for combat flight sims now are:

Falcon BMS (essentially an expanded Falcon 4.0, expanded a bit into aircraft outside the F-16 family)

DCS (Full autism aircraft modules as well as some simpler ones that don't require 600+ page manuals. Currently has a version of the P-51 and Su-25 for free as a "demo".)

IL-2 series for all your WWII needs.

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