I'll have to take your word on all this IT stuff guys, because I'm still trying to free up enough RAM with my config file, btw, can I delete my floppy drive on startup, help, advice?

No Fly' - you are doing everything 100% correctly!

Someone will be by shortly to let you know it's all RB4's fault.

Thanks Brian.

Now how do I get this Glide wrapper to work anyway?

What is OFF?

An add-on to Combat Flight Simulator 3 for WWI aircraft. More like a complete transformation.


http://www.overflandersfields.com/info.htm

Does it fit in extended memory and question two is there an optional RAM pack

Glide wrapper

Orchid Righteous 3D. Hardware accelerated heaven.

I've still got one in the shrink-wrapper. I might have said that before

We worship dark and mysterious Gods

Ming

"If SimX is to survive, it needs to generate revenue, and it is questionable that the revenue generated by purchases of the game plus add-ons will suffice if the game is perceived as either (a) too hardcore or (b) lacking in long term content."

Of course this means that evey new historical flight simulation effort should not be hard core, but just have lots of content.

Did I answer your question WF2?

These survival plans sound like a wonderful formula for easy success, and certainly might work for RB4, problem is Mad Otter is thinking about selling all this "long term content" on a new game engine, and ouch, that could be a big problem.

No, the SX? You were right to junk it with its narrower bus...Now, had it been the DX, it woulda' been a keeper.

<sigh>

A new Red Baron(1) and Red Baron 3D package at www.gog.com might attract quite a few purchaces by those that like that popular site .. the level of interest there might determine what will come next

Damon could:

Re-issue various levels of RB3D <subtitle> incorporating various community mods. Doable scenarios include 100+ aircraft SP including AI planes and 80+ MP .. all flyable

Rebuild and expand the size / features of RBII/3D with modern graphics .. he does have the RBII source code now .. that could mean 200+ plane "slots", though I doubt more than 80 types, flyable in SP and MP would be used .. flyable 2-seaters and bombers in SP and MP with AI gunners, maybe human gunners .. dunno for sure what might be possible

Build a new Red Baron title from scratch in a new or proven existing flight engine with good Multiplay.

Yes he could, and it's very cool he's thinking about the idea.

I'm waiting to see the first screenshots.

oh, I still have my old DX, theres still hope! :P

Heya Flybert,

Yeah, if they make it anew...

I vote to call it:

RED BARON 4life

I'll be hoping for a RED BARON 4in my life

Oh, man, I actually had an S3 card and had to replace it with a Voodoo Banshee when they chose Glide as the 3D acceleration for RBII!

Personally I think SimHQ should start a whole forum dedicated to the new Red Baron (even though we already have one) so that we can then fill it up with "it's never coming out" and "it's vaporware" threads!

A new Red Baron could be interesting.

It might even have a way to set joystick sensitivity and play dogfight servers like most other 21st century sims. Or is that 20th century sims?

Red Baron 4D ???

Isn't the 4th dimension supposed to be time?

Hopefully they will finally include time travel.
As we all know, Richthofen was never killed, he simply traveled to another time. And the possibility for us to experience this is finally here!
Just imagine the adventures that could be had by the Red Baron time traveling in his modified DR1!!!

But the questions are:
Is 88mph still the required speed to time travel?
What if it's terminator style and you end up naked for some reason?

I thought the other guys were trying their best to be funny, but this one takes first prize

In all seriousness, if they intend to make a simulator and not a WWI-airplane themed game, it will take some time. Heck, i don't even know if they even intend to make something along the lines of what they did in the past, but it's an encouraging first snippet without reading too much into it. It would be interesting if they licensed Oleg's new engine to build a new Red Baron campaign based on that though, plus it would save a lot of coding time.

That's the best course of action for everyone involved, especially the people who seem eager to start drawing parallels between a title that's been out for almost six months and another one that's not even in development yet, as it will lend some credence to the validity of bringing up said comparisons. Trying to bump up one's horse by making comparisons to thin air makes for a good laugh whether you see it from a tongue in cheek point of view or a serious one, but is hardly encouraging for one's case after all.
To be fair it's more of a case of immitating community reaction, it's just that it's aimed at thin air. Which could make people think that either the reaction is overdone, or that the previous receiver of such reaction also belongs to the realm of ether. Highly misunderstandable and prone to double edged interpretations, don't you think? I'm not going to spell it out any further, each one should be free to read what they want into it. Let's just sit back and proclaim "the lady doth protest too much" when the usual suspects start calling it by name, the minefield has been laid

I saw make a new engine. We don't really need two WWI sims with the Il-2 code (Rise of Flight). That game pisses me off enough.

Keep in mine that a few of the old "aces" games were being remade then canceled. We will see how far this one goes with delight.

ROF management may be interested in selling their engine to a new Red Baron developer. I bet they could use the $.

Hello,

i thought the NeoQb company bought the game engine (Digital Nature game engine) from someone else ?
http://cloud.prohosting.com/dignat/index.html
I mean every developer could look around the market, and search for an "engine" that suits him, or the planned sim.

It is just that exactly this engine is what costs some real money. The sim "that may not be named here" decided to use the back-then best modeling engine of Micro$oft's "Combat Flight Simulator 3", another WW1 sim uses the engine of the "Screamin' demons" Flight sim. But it is not until the engine's source code is open/hacked, that one can really change and adapt it to the intended simulation. CFS3's source code is now open for change, but their may be basic restrictions - don't really know.

RoF's Digital nature is the most advanced and recent, when it comes to modeling air flows/streams, but it does not mean there could not be be better ones sooner or later. Even older ones may well provide what a WW1 sim is looking for, if it can be thoroughly changed (there are also tools like "air wrench" coming to my mind, which is certainly "primitive" compared to real adapted programming).

Something like a unversal "digital wind tunnel" would be a good idea for testing the precision of all those engines lol.

Greetings,
Catfish