Mystery Subsim #31

[Onkel Neal]

Here is the initial shot of Mystery Subsim #31
http://www.subsim.com/mystery/ms31aa.jpg

If you guess, and you are wrong, then you have used one of your three wrong guesses alloted to each player. Each player gets only three wrong guesses in the whole contest before your participation ends, so guess wisely (if you are really sure). If you don't know, don't waste a guess! :) You can only guess incorrectly three times in the contest.

You cannot EDIT your post in this contest. An edited or deleted post counts as a guess.

Remember the rules!! (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=143829)

If no one tries to guess this shot, or no one guesses correctly, there will be an expanded shot to follow.

Good hunting!
Neal

[Mikhayl]

Das Boot ?

[Catfish]

Hello,
"Das Boot"
Greetings,
Catfish

[Catfish]

Oh noo,
beat me by seconds lol
Congrats !
Catfish

[Fincuan]

Going to the nitpicking side, the full name is "Das Boot: German U-Boat Simulation" :lol:

[Onkel Neal]

Das Boot ?

A hit! Yes, Das Boot.:up:
http://www.subsim.com/mystery/ms31dd.jpg

From the review:

Das Boot has aircraft, enemy and friendly submarines, interactive anti-aircraft gun and deck gun firing controls, fantastic ideas for radio (including the capability to decode enemy transmissions), and more. I have never seen a program with so many great ideas come together with such disaster. This is due, in part, to the lack of scope of the simulation. For example, one of the missions is the "Das Boot" mission. It begins in the Gibraltar Strait. You are ordered east through the strait. You are quickly attacked by aircraft, and not permitted to dive. It is foggy and you can't see anything but aircraft. If you are a good shot, you can shoot down all the planes. If you do so, you win, and that is that. This simulator is the only one that uses true three dimensional polygon filling graphics. This type of graphics is usually used with flight simulators. The advantage of this technique is that you get a real three dimensional effect. However, you are unable to show object detail. With fast jet aircraft simulators, lack of detail is fine, since you only see the enemy for a split second. But, for submarine simulators that operate at such slow speeds, lack of detail is very annoying. In Das Boot, it is impossible to determine the identification of a vessel by sight. You must have the XO "ID" the vessel to know what type it is. Other features were the use of time compression, different external views, enemy use of HF/DF against you ("maintain radio silence to avoid detection"), Metox, and different torpedo types. With the ground-breaking graphics, Das Boot had a lot of promise, but the lack of career missions pretty much sank it.


Mystery Subsim #32 is next!

Neal

[Mikhayl]

One of the few subsims I know, this was close indeed Catfish :D
@Fincuan, it's too bad fraps doesn't seem to work with this game, but the title screen just says "Das Boot" :p
edit, worked with dosbox:
http://i33.tinypic.com/2uom8lj.jpg

[Fincuan]

I know, but that's still the full name believe it or not. :up:

[FIREWALL]

Any links on where to find this game ? :D

[Onkel Neal]

Links (http://www.google.com/search?q=das+boot+game&rls=com.microsoft:*:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7DKUS)

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