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#4473086 - 05/05/19 05:17 PM Re: Gunship 2000 - Amiga version [Re: damson]  
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I just dug up all my old GS2000 files. Most of them I had already transferred..but I am excited to maybe have my old ROSTER.DAT back... I did find folders with contents of all 5 floppy disks. Should have patches as well...

AND YES... I had a bunch of .bat files I used to backup or restore my roster.dat every time I launched GS2000. Great minds think alike...


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#4473087 - 05/05/19 05:30 PM Re: Gunship 2000 - Amiga version [Re: damson]  
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Hey Recluse, I just checked 469.08 and newest 469.085 version (which came on CD pre patched I presume) and both run fine on DOSBox 0.74 for me, there is no crash after CP/G says Primary Achieved. If you need the CD image I can post the link (it weighs only few MBs).

Also I was able to use analog rudder as well as analog collective at the same time - you need to select "Second Joystick" for Rudder/Collective in SETUP program and when the prompts pops up for calibration - for joystick up/left - put collective up/rudder left and so on. When you properly calibrate your controls you can even change the collective to "helicopter style" by going into DOSBox mapper and switching assignments for "Axis 3/4" Y+ with Y-.

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#4473108 - 05/05/19 10:17 PM Re: Gunship 2000 - Amiga version [Re: damson]  
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OK.. that seems to work in DOSBOX 0.73 as well, THANKS... Have to see which gives better control.....


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#4473142 - 05/06/19 11:46 AM Re: Gunship 2000 - Amiga version [Re: damson]  
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New mission up on YT:


#4473146 - 05/06/19 12:05 PM Re: Gunship 2000 - Amiga version [Re: damson]  
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Very nice!

#4473381 - 05/08/19 12:52 PM Re: Gunship 2000 - Amiga version [Re: damson]  
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New mission up, this time it's getting tactical


#4473382 - 05/08/19 12:59 PM Re: Gunship 2000 - Amiga version [Re: damson]  
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I've been watching my old REPLAY files... FASCINATING... Maybe I will post some of them, as I am not ready to capture REAL TIME flight... Many times I look at the old films and say "WTF WAS I THINKING????"

OBVIOUSLY going for POINT totals and doing some really stupid stuff.... Good walk down Memory Lane for sure..

The GS2K Mission Recorder and Replay was far ahead of its time!! I recall that Janes Longbow (or LB2??) originally had a mission recorder but it was really buggy.. the REPLAY didn't always show what actually happened...


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#4473386 - 05/08/19 01:31 PM Re: Gunship 2000 - Amiga version [Re: damson]  
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Sadly Amiga version lacks replay feature. But gameplay wise I find it slightly more enjoyable than PC version.

So the Jane's Longbow had similar issues as DCS is having with its track files. It basically records all the user inputs and then plays it back in the game world, unfortunatelly some things are not truly deterministic (in a computer program wehre you can't make true RNG?) and posses some randomness to them so the replay can play differenlty. Just few days ago I flew a mission in a Harrier - I send 3 patrol boats to the bottom of the Hormuz Strait, while in the recording on one attack my wingman didn't fired his weapons meaning one of the boats was not sunk, which broke the scripting of the whole mission.

#4473493 - 05/09/19 10:40 AM Re: Gunship 2000 - Amiga version [Re: damson]  
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The campaign is a go:


#4473770 - 05/11/19 06:38 PM Re: Gunship 2000 - Amiga version [Re: damson]  
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2nd campaign mission:


#4473832 - 05/12/19 02:08 PM Re: Gunship 2000 - Amiga version [Re: damson]  
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#4474209 - 05/15/19 03:26 PM Re: Gunship 2000 - Amiga version [Re: damson]  
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#4474289 - 05/16/19 12:50 PM Re: Gunship 2000 - Amiga version [Re: damson]  
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Getting my hands on a Comanche.


#4474554 - 05/18/19 10:27 AM Re: Gunship 2000 - Amiga version [Re: damson]  
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#4474944 - 05/21/19 02:48 PM Re: Gunship 2000 - Amiga version [Re: damson]  
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Persian Gulf Campaing is finished.


#4475252 - 05/23/19 09:44 PM Re: Gunship 2000 - Amiga version [Re: damson]  
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#4475447 - 05/25/19 03:48 PM Re: Gunship 2000 - Amiga version [Re: damson]  
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#4476111 - 05/30/19 07:11 PM Re: Gunship 2000 - Amiga version [Re: damson]  
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More action from GS2000.






#4476679 - 06/04/19 03:23 PM Re: Gunship 2000 - Amiga version [Re: damson]  
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2nd campaign won!




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#4477049 - 06/07/19 01:35 PM Re: Gunship 2000 - Amiga version [Re: damson]  
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Switching to PC version for upcoming campaigns from Islands & Ice Expansion:



Also thanks Recluse for recent help wink

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