[filboid42]

OK you Ol' swabs! :ahoy:

I was able to get Aces Over Europe(from the original 3 Sierra floppies) up and running on my winxp pro system! As well as Aces Of The Deep!! You may already know about this but I thought I would pass it on anyway.

What I did was download a program called DOSBox and another windows frontend for DOSBox called D-Fren v2.

The links for these are below.

DOSBox-0.63-install.exe
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

D-Fend-2.0.62.42.exe
http://members.home.nl/mabus/

Installed DOSBox first and then D-Fend.

D-Fend has a setup wizard and is extremely easy to use.

So far I have tested about 20 old dos games and everyone worked perfect.

Here is my setup: WinXP Pro, 2GB Ram, ATI Radeon XT 256MB,STA soundcard. I was viewing it on a 24inch SyncMaster monitor too!

Aces Over Europe
Aces Of The Pacific
Aces Of The Deep
Red Baron
Doom,1,2,SE
Spear of Destiny
Wolfenstien
BlackThorn

Pretty cool to see these old games and hear the music again.

Filboid42

[Antonin]

Can you provide more info about whoever makes this utility? I hesitate to DL things from sites I do not know well.

I loved AOD, and would love to get it to run on my Win XP PC. I'd play SH1 if I could.

Because I still have not decided whether to buy SH3 because of Starforce, I'm really dying to play a U-boat sim!

[Sonarman]

Im using the Dosbox/Dfend combo too and managed to get good old "Task Force 1942" up and running fine I've also been trying the "Great Naval Battles" series but no luck there as yet.

One more interesting thing, I discovered the receipt for Task Force 1942 in the box, it cost 49.99 UK pounds in 1992 almost twice as much as games cost today!

[Tanyrhiew]

I've had tf1942 & AoD running under dosbox for about a year - I posted here with the instructions.

With tf1942 I'm running an "abandonware" version (i have tried to buy a legal version, even going to the extent of ringing microprose who nothing about it - even the budget cd version they released under the soldout label) - my original (andthe first game I ever bought) having gone to the place games go when they die, the box having been left on top of some stereo speakers with disasterous consequences for the floppies inside, when we moved house about 10 years ago.

What i dont have however is the keyboard commands and wonder if you can confirm if there were keys for changing ammunition type and the searchlights .

Still the best simulation of "Big gun" naval combat ever done. Og for a remake.

[Sonarman]

Hi Tanyrhiew

Here are the keys for TF1942

Esc Return to bridge
F1 Bridge
F2 Charts
F3 Gun Director
F4 Observer View
F5 Torpedo Director
F6 Damage Control
F7 Binoculars
F8 Save game
F9 Load Game
F10 Graphic Options
Alt+F10 Realism Options (in patched v1.1)

1 Increase Speed
2 Decrease Speed
shift + 1 increase to one half max (if below half speed) or go to flank speed if not
shift + 2 decrease to one half max (if above half speed) or stop if not
3 Gun Director ID book switch
8 Load/Unload Starshells
9 Searchlights on/off
0 Switch Torpedo mount
- decrease time scale
+ increase time scale
shift + arrow key scroll screen
ctrl + arrow key move pointer to hotspot
z zoom view
x expand view (zoom out)
< turn to port gradually
> turn to starboard gradually
shift + < turn to port 1 point (22.5 degrees)
shift + > turn to stbd 1 point (22.5 degrees)
Enter Fire weapons
spacebar Director targetting on / off
Numeric keypad
8 Gunner adjust range longer
2 Gunner adjust range shorter
4 view left
6 view right

Other controls
Alt + P pause
Alt + S sound
Alt + J joystick adjust
Alt + Q quit to dos

Good luck on finding an original copy eBay is still the best bet.