Hey MrJelly. A thought. How hard would it be to make a Basic160 install with the stock original aircraft types but with updated multi skin stuff?
Basically remake 1.2 but with all the 1.6 graphic improvements (and gun convergence) while keeping the campaigns usable (I know you've mentioned you need to be careful with what is selected for those to work.).
Just a thought as it seems many coming here mainly want a single player nostalgia trip.
We could have copies installed too maybe with the mission making/scrip loading stuff (make a separate patch for those?) and if any show interest in trying multiplayer, it would be an easy intro to hook them since they wouldn't need to learn the plane set and map selection software too. Once we get them hooked, maybe they'd be more open to having and learning all that a full160 has to offer.
Or maybe I am just really curious what a theoretical 1.2 updated to 1.6 would look and feel like.