Great Games/Hard to Find

[sonar732]

Originally Posted by emtmedic005

Aces of the Pacific and Aces Over Europe? has anyone heard of these games or have played them?

My dad got me Aces of the Pacific when i was about 6 or 7 (im 21 now, do the math). I loved the game and i was really good at it for a kid. when i was about 10 we moved to PA from Washington State and some how the game was losted in the move. About 5 years ago i was in a store and noticed some old cheap PC games. I looked through them and saw one that had A-10 Warthog, The Red Baron, Aces Over Europe and Aces of the Pacific in it. So i bought it, but it didnt work for some reason, i dont remember. But anyways we moved again to MA and i was going through some boxes and found that bundle pack CD so i put it in my PC and tried to load Aces of the Paficic but i couldnt cause it requires DOS to play it. So i dont know wat to do, i looked at all the ways one can do it but it doesnt make any sense.
So can anyone help me out? I remember with the orginal Aces game it came with a manual, it was a book actually and i was wondering if anyone has a copy for sale, haha. Or if anyone knows where i can buy the original Aces of the Pacific?

Have you attempted to utilize the 'compatability' function of Windows XP? Make it for W95 at 640X480 colors.

EDIT: I found your game pack on eBay though.

[GSpector]

Hello emtmedic005,

According to the Aces manual (pg. 11) it says "For best results, install the programs from Windows, but run the flight simulations from DOS (with the exception of A-10 2). "

Also, make sure you have the required 6MB of free Hard Drive space for the installation

Also it looks like AotP requires M$-DOS 5.0 or higher

Wow, it's been a long time since I played these and I remember when I hoped to have a system that was good enough to really enjoy them.

I will admit that I did prefer many of the features of the old sims, many by MicroProse. I would like to see many old Sims like F-117a redone with whole new graphics & sounds but remain the same feel. I prefer Sims that allowed to do as well or as bad as I wanted without having to do it all over again like some arcade game. That's whay I like SH3