#3922510 - 03/10/14 06:29 AM
Re: Longbow 2 Windows Vista/7 Fix available for download... again!
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It WORKS!!!!
I need to get back up to speed with this game. I wonder if there is any chance of playing online with people anymore.
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#3922894 - 03/10/14 09:24 PM
Re: Longbow 2 Windows Vista/7 Fix available for download... again!
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I remember he first Longbow, but is this second onew orth the effort? Is still a good sim or is too old for today's standards?
-Sir in case of retreat, were we have to retreat?? -To the Graveyard!!
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#3922939 - 03/10/14 11:14 PM
Re: Longbow 2 Windows Vista/7 Fix available for download... again!
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It's dated, I won't lie to you. Resolution is no where near modern standards, no trees, in some respects fairly simple but oh my the memories. With a glide wrapper in the game it takes me back to 1987.
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#3923769 - 03/12/14 05:10 PM
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It's dated, I won't lie to you. Resolution is no where near modern standards, no trees, in some respects fairly simple but oh my the memories. With a glide wrapper in the game it takes me back to 1987. No trees? Man that kills a bit the chopper interest. Anyway If is easy to make it work on Win7 I will give it a try.
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#3924051 - 03/13/14 08:27 AM
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Er, 1997.
Gotta remember, in 1997 there really weren't any games that had trees in their games.
I am hoping that Combat Helo is going to be the updated Longbow that I loved. I still enjoy playing it, even after all of these years. Sometimes things just get too complicated and it is nice going back to a time when everything seemed simpler.
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#3924056 - 03/13/14 09:13 AM
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Sometimes things just get too complicated and it is nice going back to a time when everything seemed simpler. Agree! Hope the Combat Helo guys suceed with his game. I will help them when they release the first part of the sim.
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#3924186 - 03/13/14 03:29 PM
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I have to say that the game works now perfectly, thanks to FlyBoy, is there something important I need to know?
Also, is there any way to acces "options" screen so I can tune my game/controls?
Thanks a lot!!
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#3979860 - 07/11/14 10:54 PM
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You've obviously never played the sim like I have, then!
Maybe due to CPU clocking issues on modern computers, but VRS and RBS have been present when I've played. Remember, I played the crap out of this sim for ages. There seems to be just low RPM stall and the ability to damage your rotor if you go too fast, but neither really behaves like VRS or RBS. VRS should begin at much less descent rate than this low RPM thing does when you lower the collective too fast with low lateral speed, and then your RPM should increase rapidly, not decrease. At least there is a penalty in both changing collective too fast and in overspeeding, even if the latter is very difficult to do in LB2. RBS should be vibration, pitching upward, and a roll moment prior to the main rotor potentially ripping off. Also, the solution for dealing with low RPM main rotor stall is to increase lateral speed, while the solution to VRS is also to increase lateral speed plus lowering the collective... usually in reverse order since the former often requires the latter. So it's not too far off. It's just that neither is very easy to do in the sim. The need to use lateral motion in an emergency to save a descent without substantial forward speed is a good habit LB2 at least forces you to develop. EECH, by the way, does not do low RPM stalls, though there is some RPM stuff now from Arney and my GlovePIE scripts can crudely add the attitude/rate command & attitude hold stuff, as well as make the collective more mushy. Using PPJOy and my GlovePIE scripts for Comanche Gold can not only add those crude flight law modes, but crude VRS behavior. I can't do anything with GlovePIE and LB2 to add pedals or anything else, though. Only the first joystick is recognized with not DirectX assignment thing possible.
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