Nice! I’m a bit jealous, but not enough to try and get it running again. For me it was a freeze or ctd just when I thought I had it running.
I do regret tossing the boxes, that was a little silly. Looks like you can still pick them for relatively cheap though.
So I have a friend who built me a custom 86Box build for flight sims, and both iF-22 and iF/A-18E work!
Talking about nostalgia- hear this…
hey that’s pretty cool! I hadn’t heard of 86Box before, been a long time since I tried any emulator type thing.
Unfortunately probably don’t have the time (or energy to be honest) to mess with something like that anymore.
Did your friend set it up with an OS and everything?
Yeah, Win98SE, which is nice because I don’t have the patience for it either.
That’s great - good pal you have there!
I played a ton of iF-22 when it came out, and its expansion in the desert. I loved it. Played multiple campaigns in it, something I rarely do with sims. Even F4 I think I did a grand total of 2 complete campaigns, while other excellent ones like Longbow and Jane’s F-15 I merely did once and moved on.
Then came iF-18 and I was so excited…and never got more than 15 mins because it crashed as soon as I got to the cockpit.
A decade later I found out it was a known bug and you just had to change the FOV by as little as 1 degree to fix it…but it was of course long gone by then. 
I’ve been playing some old games this week. Had another play through of Realms of the Haunting as it is wonderfully soothing to me.
Also another 5 or so hours of Terra Nova, strike force centuri. Because I love it.
I had a 2 level demo of this when i was a kid from a PC format magazine CD. Played it to absolute death. But never found a copy of the full version. Bought it on Gog a few years ago and never expected it to actually live up to the hype in my own head, but its fantastic. A genuinely good and thrilling game, wonderful production values, decent FMV and the lore and back story is great as well. Ive got 50 or 60 hours out of it.
Realms is a game I will love till the day i expire. One of my all time favourites and its extremely calming walking round that world. I recently found a treasure trove of old magazine reviews and one in particular that i remember reading over and over before the release in 1996. I finally found that magazine and it was very special indeed reading it all again. Played through the game and still just love it.
Really struggling with new stuff lately. But the old ones are just special in a lovely cosy way
DCS granddaddy from almost 30 years ago… damn the time flies
Yeah… Doesn’t seem like that long ago, does it? Imagine 30 years forward…
I might not be among the living in 30 years… 
I will have beaten the odds myself, if I am… 
Depends on which side of the family I take after. On the one side I will be gone for up to about a decade and on the other side there is another 10 to 15 years left if their historical life spans hold.
Wheels
Terrific video.
Thirty years. Damn.
Flanker 2.0 was released in 1999, only 4 years after the initial release of the original Flanker. The advancement in graphics were staggering back in the 90s.
I am impressed how my middle range, outdated PC with a modestly modern GPU can now create visuals better than the pre-rendered intro of years ago.
That said, yes, there were leaps and bounds advancements in graphics back in the early 2000s…
Flanker 2.0/2.5 quickly became my favorite release of the Flanker series. It was a huge leap, in my opinion. The graphics were 
Oddly we still don’t have a carrier-capable Fulcrum in DCS.
When I tell folks that were too young how fast the 90s moved, I show them Wing Commander from 1990 and Freespace 2 from 1999. Just exponential increases in graphical and processing power.
