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#4044549 - 12/02/14 08:06 PM Trip back to the RB memory-lane  
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Can we remember this nice reading from the RB II book, it is my first step to the WW1 scene.

RB II manual

#4044551 - 12/02/14 08:08 PM Re: Trip back to the RB memory-lane [Re: dutch]  
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Dutch, I've been looking for this everywhere!! I used to love reading this just for fun. Thanks for sharing.


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#4044555 - 12/02/14 08:16 PM Re: Trip back to the RB memory-lane [Re: dutch]  
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Typically American!..you'd think the British weren't actually in the War!


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#4044556 - 12/02/14 08:16 PM Re: Trip back to the RB memory-lane [Re: dutch]  
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I still have my original RB box and manual - ditto FCG with those great maps.


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#4044557 - 12/02/14 08:25 PM Re: Trip back to the RB memory-lane [Re: dutch]  
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There is also a story behind. My whole childhood I'm interested in WW2 US planes, like the Hellcat/Mustang/Thunderbolt/Corsair/Bearcat etc. So when I did get my first Win95 PC, my plans was to get a WW2 combat flight sim. Only these were to expensive, did find one in the sales box a RedBaron [with mission generator] game for $5,- Not my favorite genre but better then noting so I got these. I could never run this MS/DOS game on my Win95, so I did open the folders in the disk and find some .pdf files. Read all the stories and from that day I was into the WW1. Later when RBII was on sale I did get this game, upgraded to a VooDoo3 card [was also on sale] and a Microsoft FF stick.

edit I still have the original RB1, RBII box and a RB3d copy from Rens.

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#4044571 - 12/02/14 08:49 PM Re: Trip back to the RB memory-lane [Re: dutch]  
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I remember this and also all the old Microprose game manuals...Gunship,F117a,Silent service,and keyboard overlays,fantastic times ..i still have all my old original manuals including Falcon 4 and i still read them from time to time,great post Dutch


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#4044612 - 12/02/14 10:22 PM Re: Trip back to the RB memory-lane [Re: UK_Widowmaker]  
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Originally Posted By: UK_Widowmaker
Typically American!..you'd think the British weren't actually in the War!


The Brits were there too?
Gonna have to check my books on that bold statement.

#4044698 - 12/03/14 01:59 AM Re: Trip back to the RB memory-lane [Re: dutch]  
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I used to leave several old {and new} game manuals in the bathroom. Great bathroom reading.

I am married now, though. I live in a house with three women and one bathroom. I don't see the inside of the bathroom very often and never long enough to read. My wife has forbidden books in the bathroom. I can only sneak one in at night....and I still get caught!

#4044708 - 12/03/14 02:25 AM Re: Trip back to the RB memory-lane [Re: dutch]  
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#4044710 - 12/03/14 02:37 AM Re: Trip back to the RB memory-lane [Re: dutch]  
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Originally Posted By: Winding Man
I still have my original RB box and manual - ditto FCG with those great maps.


WM


Just found my Dynamix Red Baron Box, manual and maps the other day... good stuff. Lol 3.5" disks.


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#4044770 - 12/03/14 08:19 AM Re: Trip back to the RB memory-lane [Re: dutch]  
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I still fire it up and play every few months! RBII (pre-3D patch) was the first flight sim where I joined a squad (JG2) and flew online...good times. I bounce around between the HA Super patch, Stock and WFP. I know it might be ugly these days but I can still see the beauty within. The RBII box was pretty awesome too even though I don't have it anymore.

I vividly remember being in my local Electronics Boutique and opening the RBII box:






After seeing that...it was a done deal. Especially the pic in the upper right...really sold me.

Thanks for the nostalgia Dutch!

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#4044780 - 12/03/14 08:54 AM Re: Trip back to the RB memory-lane [Re: Force10]  
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Originally Posted By: Force10
I still fire it up and play every few months! RBII (pre-3D patch) was the first flight sim where I joined a squad (JG2) and flew online...good times. I bounce around between the HA Super patch, Stock and WFP. I know it might be ugly these days but I can still see the beauty within. The RBII box was pretty awesome too even though I don't have it anymore.

I vividly remember being in my local Electronics Boutique and opening the RBII box:






After seeing that...it was a done deal. Especially the pic in the upper right...really sold me.

Thanks for the nostalgia Dutch!

S!


Yep thats the RB box I have - wow those were the days....

Flying Corps Gold has this awesome pilot leather pouch (paper) with great maps.

I also have its precursor - Dawn Patrol.

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#4044850 - 12/03/14 01:26 PM Re: Trip back to the RB memory-lane [Re: dutch]  
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My first sim (and CD drive and sound card) I bought as a job lot and it is Wings of Glory. I still have the CD and all the books. I quite enjoyed it although I was a much better pilot in those days (or with that sim) than I am with OFF or WOFF. It is, howevever, a pain to get it to work in DOS nowadays. I tried an Oracle VM running FreeDos but had trouble with the sound (no sound at all) and gave up on it.

I think that Creative CD drive was single-speed mycomputer


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#4044941 - 12/03/14 04:44 PM Re: Trip back to the RB memory-lane [Re: dutch]  
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Anyone remember how hideously buggy and incomplete that Red Baron II was upon release? I still remember the missing textures all over the place.


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#4045005 - 12/03/14 07:41 PM Re: Trip back to the RB memory-lane [Re: dutch]  
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I remember being chased by four planes and leading them over a nearby Observation Balloon and getting the ground gunners to even the odds.

#4045088 - 12/03/14 10:50 PM Re: Trip back to the RB memory-lane [Re: dutch]  
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^^ lol, I still use that tactic in WOFF!


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#4047317 - 12/08/14 03:31 AM Re: Trip back to the RB memory-lane [Re: dutch]  
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I still have RB and RB3d on my computer, but never use them anymore really. I have the RB3d book on my shelf. These were great games. RB3d in particular is an interesting study of a game that was heavily modded to the point it survived for many years in various versions. I look at vanilla RB3d as the platform and not the finished product. You had a very talented mod community working on that to make it into a final product.

#4047392 - 12/08/14 10:00 AM Re: Trip back to the RB memory-lane [Re: dutch]  
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Wow! Nice post that really takes me back.

Great to see the old video of RB3D and to realise how far we've come in terms of flight sims. I really loved RB3D, and I still remember its campaign as being pretty much the best ever in a WW1 or WW2 combat flight sim.

Until WOFF that is.

Anyone remember when RB3D was launched? I can't even recall if it was the 90s or the 00s.

#4047411 - 12/08/14 11:32 AM Re: Trip back to the RB memory-lane [Re: dutch]  
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Check this:

Red Baron Pack

#4047432 - 12/08/14 01:02 PM Re: Trip back to the RB memory-lane [Re: Russkly]  
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Originally Posted By: Russkly
Anyone remember when RB3D was launched? I can't even recall if it was the 90s or the 00s.


RB launched in 1990 and RBII in 1997.

Blimey, I'm old.

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