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  1. Speaking of unsubstantiated hyperbole. (Or do you really think all the posts, in all the threads, could be read and the relevant posts responded to, in 15 minutes per week?)
  2. If these customers are an insignificant portion, at what point will it no longer be cost effective trying to find a cause/fix for said customers?
  3. A self-proclaimed expert is referring me to wikipedia?!?!
  4. Okay, how is his name REALLY spelled?
  5. You've obviously never driven a completely worn out Buick Electra 225 named "Sherman" by it's previous owner.
  6. I flew a '65 T-bird once (they don't land well), but never flew my bug... if only I had known they were designed for it!
  7. Ditto on the accolades! My favorite part is where the "announcer" states that while this is a fictional battle at a fictional location and played on a computer game, it's no less real to the virtual soldiers involved. ROFL! Also loved the documentary style of the "interviews" including translations of the Germans! Double-ROFL!
  8. <--- Me .................................................. Ten Foot Pole --->
  9. The real problem with Rugby is that there isn't enough talking. For rugby to ever become a real sport, you have to have an announcer talking about what might happen, what should happen, what will happen, and why it didn't happen and how it didn't happen and where it didn't happen and the history of it not happening. Then you have to have coaches talk to their teams about what to do, what not to do and where to do it while not doing it again. Then you have to have a smaller portion of the team talk about things from the perspective of the actual talking, I mean playing field. Then you have to have one guy on the field talk very loud to everyone else on the field, and you have to have referees talk about stuff, often while waving their hankies (handkerchiefs), and then you have to start the cycle all over again. Without discussion, it can't be a sport as it's just chaos.
  10. I predict that Sonny Sixkiller will not make it in the NFL.
  11. Not at all. Install your original Achtung Spitfire and patch it to v1.15, then follow these instructions... http://home.comcast.net/~hagler11/otr/subpages/run_otr-as.html
  12. Hence my mention of never having tried it (after no little effort tracking down the publisher and ordering the magazine, based on a rumour). But, if one DID do the effort and planned a s**t-load of raids, I think it would work fine. Once I read the article, I seriously thought about including solitaire in my VASSAL module. But I came to the conclusion that raids would probably have to be a bit thin to fit in the number of available variables in VASSAL. Actually, after planning, the game is the German side (much like it's more exciting to be the British in any BOB game). However, considering you want to be the US, why don't you do so, plan a million raids, then mail them to me. *grin* No. He kind of disappeared on me, about the same time frame (he had met a new gal then... perhaps that went well for him? ...good for him, shame for us). Although, I think he has made some sporadic posts on gamesquad since then(?).
  13. I found the isometric presentation misleading. I wish Charles had stayed with the straight 2D presentation of Flight Commander 2. However, the underlying mechanics were present. Which helped to offset the presentation for me. I did a Vassal module of Yaquinto's Bomber* several years ago. I believe it is still available on the vassal site (note: this a completely freeware deal). However, I make no promises as someone saved all the modules I did as Vassal 3.XX modules with no real conversions/allowances being done (just a "load it in 3.xx and save it under 3.xx" deal). (If you want/need the original version under Vassal 2.99, pm me) As to the "solitairability (tm)", there was actually an article (which took me awhile to track down and get) on how to solitaire Bomber as the Germans. To save you $15.00 for ordering the out of print magazine... essentially, you plan out a crap load of allied raids, writing each counter's movement, step by step, on a piece of paper. Then mix all the raid papers about and grab one. Then reveal each raid, one line at a time. I never tried it, but it sounds like it might have worked fine if you pre-planned enough raids that which one it was wouldn't be obvious as you played. * Mucho credit to GJK for salvaging the map... at the time I had recently dumped my old, old, old, old, old, old scanner (read: that scanner was so old, you could load a c64 program WELL before it would complete a single page scan) and bought a new one that did everything but the dishes. But the new and really fast one, turned out to use a dynamic algorithm when scanning (meaning no scan would match up with any other scan when piece-mealing a map).
  14. The game was based on the boardgame of the same name (as was Over The Reich), and was put out for windoze 95. The last version was 1.15. The real dilemma is that the illegal versions will run, but cannot be patched because they are hacked. While the legal version can be patched, but will not run because it's not hacked (the copy protection is incompatible with newer CD/DVD drivers). A typical fix is to drag out an old retired machine, reinstall windoze 95 and the original game and patch it all up to 1.15 (many find this fix is great for almost all of their retro-gaming needs). If you search the web, I think somebody had some luck "sandboxing" windoze 95 and the game. [Edit/Addition...] If memory serves, that link you cannot access is not really the whole game, but is only the 1.05 patch (with a badly worded download description. Not to mention that common sense also tells you that BTS/BFC would never give the whole game away).
  15. $40.00 for a beta anything is $80.00 too much for my tastes.
  16. I don't think that the technical/legal age of any one in here, is a fair &%$#&^ HEY!... WHAT ARE THOSE KIDS DOING IN MY YARD?!?!?!?! .
  17. Almost makes one want to be an heroic commissar! (but not quite)
  18. How do you spell monotonous drive in Chinese?
  19. Would they still be able to post here?
  20. Shame really, ...not a pith to pot in.
  21. We've already got one. Now go away or we shall taunt you a second time!
  22. Now you have to change your tagline!
  23. You remember it well do you? ROFL!
  24. Actually, it was done by at least the early eighties. (off the top of my head "Napoleon's Campaigns" from 1981 and "Road to Gettysburg" from 1982... Although probably not as pretty as this game you speak of.).
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