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Author	Topic: How does your SDOE cover look?
Rendsburger Pilot	posted 04-14- 01:53 PM Like mine? Rendsburger IP: Logged
SchaF Pilot	posted 04-14- 02:14 PM yep same here..nice pic tho:)) ------------------ Rip me open and erase me!!!!!! IP: Logged
Aladar Pilot	posted 04-14- 02:15 PM Nope, mines different. Its got a B-17 shot up really bad on fire and Fighter Squadron near the bottom of the box. IP: Logged
gt Pilot	posted 04-14- 02:20 PM Yeah! Remember the Lanc on the cover! This was the only reason at that time to buy this game!!!! (Fly a Lanc an man every station!! What a thrill!!) Not like CFS I where you can only 'fly' a Lanc..... ...why this question Rends??? cheers gt IP: Logged
li'l bastard Pilot	posted 04-14- 02:35 PM mine's too, guess it's the ETO boxart LOL li'l b IP: Logged
Rendsburger Pilot	posted 04-14- 02:43 PM gt, well i saw some different pics at simfiles. RD IP: Logged
Rendsburger Pilot	posted 04-14- 02:49 PM Q:If anyone get a different Cover,please post a pic here! Aladar? Rendsburger IP: Logged
Razer Pilot	posted 04-14- 03:14 PM i've long since thrown my away but it did have a B-17 on the cover. I'm thinking europe had a cover and the US had a cover. Maybe aussies had another one too but i'm not sure. IP: Logged
3dp Pilot	posted 04-14- 11:52 PM I had the B-17 too (box long gone). On the web, I've seen a different version with a photo of a real B-24 exploding (as opposed to the B-17 which was from the game). Given that I'm in the design/publications business, my guess would be that the B-24 cover was a pre release version which never saw the light of day when someone realized that there was no B-24 in the game! It would seem that those that put the manual and box together had little contact with those actually creating the sim. As a designer and an amateur historian, such things have always irked me bad, ever since the days when the board game 'War At Sea' had a painting of the USS Texas on the cover, a ship with a tiny role in the game. A good portion of the photos in my U.S. manual feature aircraft not in the original game! The line art of the Ju88 is the wrong model altogether, and the historical text leaves a lot to be desired in some places (siting RAF expansion of their heavies as due to the success of the B-17? What?). For what it's worth, I chose it from the glut of WW2 sims coming out at the time since it let my fly a Lancaster (not to mention the other bombers, which were mostly lacking in the other fighter-centric offerings). I'll get off my soap box now . . . ------------------ Be seeing you, 3dp Visit RAF Harkness! IP: Logged
Aladar Pilot	posted 04-15- 12:29 AM Sorry, Box is loooooooooooooong gone. IP: Logged
Biggles Pilot	posted 04-15- 02:13 AM Us Aussies got the same cover that Aladar is talking about. Rendsburger: I tried to scan the box picture in to send it to you, but for some reason, it comes out in really crappy quality. Don't know about the rest of you, but i got a free CD: Great Combat Aircraft #4 B-17. It's just the video series on CD, but it is VERY good. If anyone knows where i might find the rest of the series on CD, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Biggles IP: Logged
Harman_5 Pilot	posted 04-15- 04:29 AM Australian version: I got my combat aircraft CD too ------------------ Visit FS:SDOE Online IP: Logged
semmern Pilot	posted 04-15- 05:47 AM Mine's the same as Rendsburger's one, but I saw the B-17 version in a shop a few days ago, for �6 by the way. IP: Logged
Biggles3 Pilot	posted 04-15- 05:54 AM I have the first 1 with the spits and a lank on it. But when people talk to me about looking at the maps in my manual, i dont have em?? ------------------ WHATCH YOU TAIL;) IP: Logged
li'l bastard Pilot	posted 04-15- 06:33 AM hey! I ain't got any bonus cd rom in my box! DAMN!!! I want it too!!!! li'l bastard IP: Logged
Jerry Pilot	posted 04-15- 01:08 PM I still have my US box. It's the same as Harman's but without the "bonus CD" circle and the lower right rating language is the US version. Art work is exactly the same. [This message has been edited by Jerry (edited 04-15-2001).] IP: Logged
Aladar Pilot	posted 04-15- 10:40 PM Yep Harman, thats the one I had, except no bonus CD. I got mine the day it came out. I had the game reserved and waited for it for a year. I remember the call that said it was in like it was yesterday. IP: Logged
Jeeves JAG	posted 04-16- 12:30 AM OK....I don't have my box, but I do have some pics of some pre-release screenshots. Man I wish I could've played with this game before it lost all this...Pete Hawk, jedi? I see your names in the manual under "Visioneers"...did the game you tested have this?: Look at the lighthouse in the first pic....does it look like it has a working light? And is that a castle in the background? Speaking of which-- the bottom pic- the ruins look different ------------------ Brought to you by the campaign for a better Dauntless! Jeeves =FC= IP: Logged
Karaya 2 Pilot	posted 04-16- 06:32 AM Harman5 have you got a pic of the back of the box as well? I have it but my scanner is playing up. ------------------ IP: Logged
Harman_5 Pilot	posted 04-16- 08:45 AM Yep I hope the box text is readable, I couldn't scan too high a res, giant file size then. Notice the far lower right box screenshot features a dogfight between two Typhoons. Oops! ------------------ Visit FS:SDOE Online [This message has been edited by Harman_5 (edited 04-16-2001).] IP: Logged
li'l bastard Pilot	posted 04-16- 12:27 PM hey harman, how's that bonus cd rom? Crappy stuff or a nice one? IP: Logged
Harman_5 Pilot	posted 04-16- 01:09 PM Lil B', it's actually quite good. It shows real footage of B17s bombing from low altitudes, islands in the Pacific, and some cockpit footage from the B24s and '17s too. There's some footage of the temporary airfields the U.S made in "Kiska" in the Aleutians (sp?) to fight the Japanese, and some of the planes (a P38) going through some huge water puddles! There's also some footage of a not-so-lucky pilot trying to land on a water-drenched runway and skidding off on his belly Low altitude bomb runs by the '17s and '24s are cool! The bomb fuses are set to delay, so the bombers can escape the blast of the bombs. There's also some footage of the B17 being built and shown off with some footage of the early '17s sent to England, etc, and also some of the newer bombers like the B52 are shown and the intro of the CD is that famous gun camera footage of a German fighter shooting at the '17s engines and the ball turret gunner is dead you can tell because the ball is static, pointing downwards. I was gonna take some screens of the footage, but the stuff is copyrighted. Oh yes, at the end of the Cd, it says: "You've seen the aircraft...Now fly them...If you can!", and then it plays some cool in-game footage of SDOE. The tracers are red and the explosions imo look better. It shows a p38 bombing and rocketing some towns and oil refineries and also some dogfights. Oops, I've ranted again... ------------------ Visit FS:SDOE Online [This message has been edited by Harman_5 (edited 04-16-2001).] IP: Logged
ZooL Pilot	posted 04-16- 06:20 PM man, was FS toned down graphically? from looking at older screenshots in early development, things seem alot more colorful and smoother. IP: Logged

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