Retro Dogfight, A Podcast on Classic Flight Sims, Launches Today

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The old Lucasarts games were what got me into flight simming - looking forward to listening to the episode! :heart_eyes:

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Yay! Thank you!

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Friends, episode 3 – in which we look at the earliest text-based flight games – is now out! Yay!

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Text-based sims… now this is interesting! Thanks for heads up :+1:

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Yeah I didn’t know about them either until doing research for this podcast. They’re pretty fascinating.

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Friends, episode four of Retro Dogfight is out today, in which we talk about some of the earliest MicroProse games like Hellcat Ace and Spitfire Ace!

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I had almost forgot about this podcast, until two days ago when I listened to episode 2, the yesterday episode 3, and well today I’ll listen to episode 4.

Loved it so far. I have some (hopefully) constructive criticism but I’ll be writing it after I listen this this latest.

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Well we’re very new so I’m looking forward to your critique. Thank you for listening!

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It’s honestly such a pleasure to hear you all talking about these old games.
I couldn’t stop giggling during the text based episode.
:joy:

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That’s exactly the kind of response we’re looking for. Thank you!

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Agreed

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It might be hard to appreciate where we are unless you know where we came from. I agree that modern sims are amazing, but the Reddit community for DCS (just as an example) seems to be able to find innumerable problems with it that make it literally unplayable :wink:

I am reminded of Doom (the 1993 one). People still play Doom. I’ve seen them. But they don’t play it at 33fps using the arrow keys to turn and move.

I am in the process of playing Dogfight to see if it was the combat flight sim I imagined in my teens as being the “perfect” flight sim (having played Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat and been stunned at how good it was at illustrating multiple eras of air combat). But even booting up CYAC again, it’s a much smoother experience with a modern joystick and with being able to arbitrarily increase processor performance in DosBox to make it play smoothly!

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