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Longbow Gold (DOS) and Longbow2 on my modern PC
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Frankie Kam
Mar 2, 2017, 1:43:25 AM3/2/17
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Hi All
This Google Groups is dead. Long live the King! And so is Jane's Longbow series. With no source code available, and more modern sims like Sturmovik and DCS in the offing, Jane's Longbow series is more for nostalgia's sake.
1996 is a long time ago. Well, the Jane's Longbow series started then with Longbow AH-64D (a.k.a, LB1 for DOS) in 1996, followed by the FlashPoint Korea mission disk in 1996, then Jane's Longbow Gold in 1997, the sequel to AH-64D which was Longbow2 in 1997 and finally Jane's Anthology in 1998.
All passed me by. Or shall say, I passed them by. Now it's 2017 which is what, 20 years later, and I am happy to say that I have LB2 running on my Windows10 PC and LB1 running on both PC and my iPad Air! Running on 3Dfx effects. So that's what the fuss was all about 20 years ago! Nice.
Never mind these EEAH and EECH is the king of helo sims these days, what with the source code being available and the tons of mods by talented, hardwaorking and ingenious modders. LB1 and Longbow2 are prime examples of great games and the model and inspiration for many of their successors. A Longbow game is the full package.
Real paper manual (PDF nowadays), music, gameplay, great graphics (in its day with 3DFX, now playable with 3DFX Glide wrappers like nGlide and others), immersive graphical user interface. Anyone working in the software industry should look at the Jane's Longbow series as a model of what great software looks like. Especially LB1 (DOS) and LB2 with the Windows7 fix created by Flyboy at his Longbow website.
The King is dead. Long live Jane's Longbow!
Cheers,
Frankie Kam, Malaysia.
This Google Groups is dead. Long live the King! And so is Jane's Longbow series. With no source code available, and more modern sims like Sturmovik and DCS in the offing, Jane's Longbow series is more for nostalgia's sake.
1996 is a long time ago. Well, the Jane's Longbow series started then with Longbow AH-64D (a.k.a, LB1 for DOS) in 1996, followed by the FlashPoint Korea mission disk in 1996, then Jane's Longbow Gold in 1997, the sequel to AH-64D which was Longbow2 in 1997 and finally Jane's Anthology in 1998.
All passed me by. Or shall say, I passed them by. Now it's 2017 which is what, 20 years later, and I am happy to say that I have LB2 running on my Windows10 PC and LB1 running on both PC and my iPad Air! Running on 3Dfx effects. So that's what the fuss was all about 20 years ago! Nice.
Never mind these EEAH and EECH is the king of helo sims these days, what with the source code being available and the tons of mods by talented, hardwaorking and ingenious modders. LB1 and Longbow2 are prime examples of great games and the model and inspiration for many of their successors. A Longbow game is the full package.
Real paper manual (PDF nowadays), music, gameplay, great graphics (in its day with 3DFX, now playable with 3DFX Glide wrappers like nGlide and others), immersive graphical user interface. Anyone working in the software industry should look at the Jane's Longbow series as a model of what great software looks like. Especially LB1 (DOS) and LB2 with the Windows7 fix created by Flyboy at his Longbow website.
The King is dead. Long live Jane's Longbow!
Cheers,
Frankie Kam, Malaysia.
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