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Topic: An open request to all interested in improving TAW/EF2000
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Zhukov
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posted 05-28-2001 09:05 PM
    
A big thanks to Doug for setting up this forum dedicated to EF2000/ADF/TAW. With the impending North American release of Eurofighter Typhoon, there's been a resurgence of interest in Total Air War and a number of people have started working on mods for this venerable sim. The first significant TAW mod that's been released by Manteau allows you to increase your in-game resolution from the standard 800x600 to 1024x768! You can grab this patch from Manteau's site here. This is just the beginning. Manteau has proven that we have the ability to improve TAW through hex-editing as has been done with great effect with EAW and Falcon4. A number of people at SimHQ are gathering under the organization calling itself the TAW Mod Group to continue developing such modifications. While I applaud their efforts, they have made it clear that this is to be a closed top-down organization, not taking an 'open source' approach which has worked so well with EAW and F4. I'm determined to start my own independent investigations into how various aspects of TAW can be modified and improved. Furthermore, anything that I find will be published openly on this forum and I encourage all of you out there who are reading this to do the same. In fact, I'd like to take this a step further by seeing what we could do with the Win95 version of EF2000. If anyone can get EF2K to run at 1024x768 (or even 800x600), that would be awesome! This is not meant to be a flame against the people over at SimHQ. I just think that preserving the viability of TAW and EF2000 as sims should not lay in the hands of a select few.
Zhukov
-------------------- "Didja ever notice that guy who pulls out right in front of you, then slows down to 30? Then whenever you get to a passing zone, he speeds up... Then the double solids return, and he's back to 30. And keeps his left turn signal on the whole time? Hitler was much worse than that guy" -- overheard on plastic.com
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posted 05-29-2001 09:20 PM
Surprise, surprise!  Now, if I could just get rid of this WinFont error when I go to fire up TAW, I'll be lauging . . . boy, it's been a while! -------------------- Douglas Helmer
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