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Silent Service (Amiga Version) 10 18.52%
Silent Hunter 44 81.48%
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Old 05-10-08, 04:45 PM   #31
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Does anyone know where you can find manuals for SS1 and SS2? I am curious to see what features they provided and how the interfaces looked.

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Old 05-10-08, 07:07 PM   #32
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Sorry I couldn't find complete manuals with pictures. Here at least are the texts:

http://project64.ath.cx/games/m-z/Silent%20Service.txt
http://www.lemonamiga.com/?mainurl=h...hp%3Fid%3D1446

And Neal's old review with a couple of screenshots:
http://www.subsim.com/ssr/ss2shots.html
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Old 08-05-08, 11:39 AM   #33
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It would be cool if Microprose did a SS3.
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Old 08-05-08, 11:48 AM   #34
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I remember the old silent service and Sh1. I still have sh1(Computer CD) and silent service (on one of those old box system) Even though I was born in the early 90s I was playing SS and SH when I was five years old on a old system we got.
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Old 08-05-08, 04:09 PM   #35
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Me and a buddy of mine played SS on the NES until our fingers ached. I blame my imperfect eyesight on that game. Once SS2 came out, we simply switched platforms, trading off on the PC until both of us were too sick of staring at a screen to play anymore.

The original Silent Hunter was a very good game, but it seemed sort of 'flat' to me. I remember having a lot more fun with Aces of the Deep, despite far preferring the Pacific theater. Not until SH III did I feel the SH series start to develop more personality.
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Old 08-05-08, 08:00 PM   #36
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Me and a buddy of mine played SS on the NES until our fingers ached. I blame my imperfect eyesight on that game. Once SS2 came out, we simply switched platforms, trading off on the PC until both of us were too sick of staring at a screen to play anymore.

The original Silent Hunter was a very good game, but it seemed sort of 'flat' to me. I remember having a lot more fun with Aces of the Deep, despite far preferring the Pacific theater. Not until SH III did I feel the SH series start to develop more personality.
I mised a lot of class time playing AotD. Did you ever play the Commanders Edition of SH? that really added a lot of flair to the game.
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Old 08-05-08, 09:53 PM   #37
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Yep. I did enjoy SH, don't get me wrong, it just never seemed to have the charm of its contemporary, despite being a very solid sub game.
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Old 08-05-08, 10:00 PM   #38
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Yep. I did enjoy SH, don't get me wrong, it just never seemed to have the charm of its contemporary, despite being a very solid sub game.
I didn't like SH2 at all, it just had too many problems for me. The mods helped a lot, but i think by that time, SH3 came out.
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Old 08-05-08, 10:42 PM   #39
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Yeah. I played it cuz at the time it was the only sub game out, but if I recall my devotion to it quickly petered out and I drug SH 1 and AoTD out again.

SH2 gave me some great gamer moments in terms of it being the first time I got to skulk through the fjords of Norway and such, but I mostly remember being very dissapointed that I couldn't just...go hunting.

When I found out that SH3 had a dynamic campaign again, I was very tickled.
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Old 09-25-08, 03:08 PM   #40
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Does anyone know where you can find manuals for SS1 and SS2? I am curious to see what features they provided and how the interfaces looked.

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I still have a photocopy manual of SS2.
HOT DAMNED!!!I have it since 1993 !!!!!!! There is a very intresting firing procedure!!!
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Old 01-04-09, 04:00 PM   #41
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Does anyone know where you can find manuals for SS1 and SS2? I am curious to see what features they provided and how the interfaces looked.

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I still have a photocopy manual of SS2.
HOT DAMNED!!!I have it since 1993 !!!!!!! There is a very intresting firing procedure!!!
That's cool
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Old 01-04-09, 04:44 PM   #42
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I've owned three flavors of Commodore computer, but never an Amiga. As I stated before though, I think overall Silent Hunter 1 is better than Silent Service 1. Silent
Service 2 was a closed second. When I bought my first 8088, I bought the sound card with an Adlib chip specifically for SH2.

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Old 01-07-09, 01:43 PM   #43
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Silent Services (the first one) will always have a special part in my memories, it was the first time i played with a submarine game, i had it on my amstrad cpc464, i believe i overused the tape .


It was not the best version (the C64 was said to be better), but i had plenty of fun diving and releasing junks trying to get my pursuers thinking i was destroyed.

But that said, Silent Hunter was better because it was going a lot more to the simulation way, while Silent Service was more simplified, and i doubt it was because of the difference in age, just look at Red Storm Rising that despite being 7 year older than SH even today on my dosbox i find it awesome.

I never had Silent Service 2 though, maybe one day i will try to find it for dosbox.
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i spent a lot of time playing both. I wish SS had capital ships in it. It was fun for its age.
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