Games we are playing

Oh, EF2000 tactcom

My old love…

There was really something about those cold norway colors , and norway, sweden, finland. Best area ever for combat sim.

I really miss that campaing system.
Radio traffic

So much immersion.

Hope that our dcs gets some of that. Less excel feeling, more topgun :smiley:

BTW , i played ED2000 about 5 years back, until i sold my retro pc because it was taking too much space (least my wife says so)

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You can get EF2000 running on DOSBox (not SuperEF2000 which is only Windows version). It runs pretty well, though with official DOSBox I found that the time flow in-game will accelerate when using higher cycles count (for fluid gameplay). So either choppy frames with proper time flow, or fluid frames with slightly accelerated time flow. That was the case until I tired the game on DOSBox ECE. It runs pretty much perfect on it. Here’s the vid with more info in the video description:

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It wasn’t self awarded (it was from the press), at the time of the release I would say that it was if not the best, one of the best flight sims.

Hey I want to be part of the “Cool guys that own EF2000” club!

Does this work well in Windows?

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You’re in!

This is the best (and maybe only?) club I’ve ever been in. It’s heartening to know that out there are guys (cool guys even you say!) that can pull this off the shelf/out of the closet at the drop of a hat.

Maybe we should do a challenge coin thing like in the military, where we always have to have a copy of the game on us (usb so as not to squish the precious docs). We can slap it on the bar at flight sim conventions!

I stopped playing several years ago, wasn’t that it wouldn’t run on Windows it just ran too fast. Sounds like damson from the post up above got that figured out though.

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EF2000 v2.0 has both DOS and Windows versions. DOS version will work fine with DOSBox ECE as I mentioned earlier, even official build of DOSBox will work but you will have to limit cycles count to somethinh like 150000 - 200000 so the game will not run too fast. Windows version will most likely not work on modern OS, and even if it does you will have no way of slowing it down.

There is also this:

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ROFLMAO, this is absolutely brilliant! Challenge USBs!

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W00t! You’re worth you weight in gold, @damson !

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Got more DOS boxes incoming! :smiley:

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When I’m not dropping warheads on foreheads in DCS, I’m slowly learning how to be a farmer. I picked up Farm Simulator 19 a couple of weeks ago while on sale. This is the perfect de-stresser for me. Still much to learn for this city slicker, but surprisingly it’s “fun”. Farm Simulator 22 will be released in late November. :nerd_face:

Working hard even after sunset

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How is it a destresser? When I was playing, it was getting stressful when you got more fields and you were harvesting one field while the other field was growing weeds and you didn’t have time to spray. Or if you had animals, you had to sheer the sheep and constantly ride horses to keep them in shape.

Not to mention your fellow farmers getting upset with you if you didn’t hose down the equipment after a session. @adlabs6

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Every day is a busy day on the farm, for sure. But every day ends with the power washer.

I find a certain peace in that. @saghen

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Mudspike poetry award winner here. :medal_sports:

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After a session of dodging SAMs and Fox 3s, sipping on a beverage while harvesting (on cruise control) is relaxing for me. :cocktail: But I’m probably not taking it as serious as I could be.

Okay, which one of you is already playing this?

Looks kind of intriguing.

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I have played that game (and its predecessor) quite a lot.
Lately I play it together with my kids (which is a fun play style. We just want to test everything so we use a money cheat and build a huge farm with not that much efficiency).

If you play a proper career then it can be stressful!

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About relaxing games to rest a bit from the action shooters, military simulators etc for me is games like train simulator, snooker/pool and puzzle logic games (with nice music on the background).

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I am! Its pretty fun and relaxing. Only played a hour or so so far. But its not bad.

I play Fallout 76 to destress. Building/rebuilding my CAMP, changing skins/repairing weapons/armor, shooting up mutated whatevers around the wasteland…for a shooter it’s remarkably laid back.

I own it but haven’t ever played it. Can it be done solo or do I absolutely have to team up