You could try PCEM https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/ with Windows 95/98. I have it setup with some old Widnows games that casue trouble on newer OS-es and doesn’t work on DOSBox (for being Windows only). Or you can just get EF2000 v2.0 or TACTCOM on DOSBox - they are basically the same version as SEF2000 for Windows but running on DOS. If you go this route you may want to try out EF2000 Reloaded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX6s-1S89Kg
It works with DOS versions of the game and brings many improvements. It even let’s you use your Track IR as emulated VFX-1 VFX1 Headgear - Wikipedia
EF2000 Reloaded is more than just a DosBox front end. Mikew built his own DosBox version to interpret the raw 3DFX code at the hardware level and translate it to OpenGL, so you actually get the full polygons set at your screen resolution rather than rendered at 640x400 and upconverted. The front end (my meager contribution in this effort) makes multiplayer campaigns a breeze (at least to the extent possible given the comparatively primitive netcode). The TrackIR is pretty sweet as well, as you can see.
I spent the majority of the 90s flying Jane’s titles. USNF and its addons/sequels, USNF 97, the Longbow and other planes, IAF…
To this day, NO ONE has done training missions as well as Longbow. The walk around, the instructor doing things, handing it off to you, taking control back, highlighting things in the cockpit… DCS has finally approached that benchmark, but has not quite equaled it yet, let alone surpassed it. Twenty year old title, hard to believe.
Don’t get me wrong, I flew plenty of Dynamix/Sierra and MPS sims as well, even the Rowan ones and DI and DID and iMagic, but due to the sheer number and quality of the titles, I think Jane’s got over 50% of my time.
In recent light of Heatblur announcement I “upgraded” my F-14 Fleet Defender installation to use Roland sound effects and music. I haven’t found any YT video of this game running on Roland sound card so here’s one from me.
I had one of those, briefly. I bought it, installed it, fired up a few games…and came to the conclusion it didn’t sound good enough for how much it cost when I was so poor at the time. I returned it. Wish it had been cheaper.
I never had one. At the time when the Roland was a standard for high-end midi in games I still had Amiga 500. When I finally bought the PC, General Midi took over. I had Aztech Sound Galaxy Waverider Pro 32 - 3D (what-a-name) with my first PC. It was Sound Blaster Pro clone with MPU-401 integrated. Funny thing is that initially I wasn’t aware that I had General Midi standard chip on my sound board (I was 14 and didn’t had much experience with PCs at the time) and I basically used OPL for midi, so when I finally heard general midi music (I think it was in Doom 1/2) when I played with the configuration in game setup program I was blown away.
