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- Sat Jan 20, 2024 2:55 pm
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: What's going on at CombatSim?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 27545
Re: What's going on at CombatSim?
I've had a look at the site stats now. There was a massive increase in traffic to this board from December last year. Hits went up from some 20k a month to 1.2 million. Monthly number of visits from about 1k to 10k. A great deal of this was over the Christmas holiday itself, and mostly from the US a...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 2:05 pm
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Barbarossa screenies
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2306
Re: Barbarossa screenies
:yes: That's Shawn "sagginb" Griffin's Euro-512 EAW Terrain v1.0 (D-24 or Darker Tile set-24 bit), first created for EAW 128E. It does work rather well with the mountainous areas. Whisper it quietly, but I may be getting somewhere at last with the slot CTDs. And many thanks for the planes....
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 1:58 pm
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Definitive books on Eastern Front air war
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1127
Definitive books on Eastern Front air war
When summarising the contributions of the major allies to the second world war, Stalin declared that "the British gave time, the Americans gave money, and the Russians gave blood". This is of course a generalisation; all the allied contributors gave considerable amounts of blood and treasu...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 1:37 pm
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Barbarossa screenies
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2306
Barbarossa screenies
Some screenies I took today whilst trying to sort out the 1941 Barbarossa scenario in the Italy-Balkans-Ukraine theatre. This was a 110 escort mission for Ju87s: http://mogggy.org/pictures/carp8.jpg http://mogggy.org/pictures/carp7.jpg The route took took the squad through the Carpathians, where the...
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Jarod's help post
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4624
Re: Jarod's help post
Great to hear that you are up and running!
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 5:42 pm
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Jarod's help post
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4624
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 6:39 pm
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Jarod's help post
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4624
Re: Jarod's help post
The Sidewinder should work okay. I used one of those myself.
You can program the buttons using eaw.ini, or simply using the "Configure Game > Control" screen (which amounts to the same thing
You can program the buttons using eaw.ini, or simply using the "Configure Game > Control" screen (which amounts to the same thing
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 2:52 pm
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Jarod's help post
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4624
Re: Jarod's help post
Great to hear
Yes, to get the pilot map up just add
PILOT MAP=ALT M
to eaw.ini
Yes, to get the pilot map up just add
PILOT MAP=ALT M
to eaw.ini
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 11:00 am
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Dambusters airman from Wakefield honoured
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1720
Dambusters airman from Wakefield honoured
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/15FEA/production/_132309009_ibbotson.jpg.webp A blue plaque honouring an airman who died in the Dambusters raids is to be installed in a village near Wakefield. Sgt Wilfred Ibbotson was 29 years old when he was killed in 1943, while returning from a missi...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 10:45 am
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Jarod's help post
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4624
Re: Jarod's help post
You can post pictures by using BB code. Generally I don't allow attachments here. Or you could send me the screen shot by email. I should warn you that we are getting a "trojan" alert on the "pcsystemfix" link you posted and I have deleted it. Meanwhile, try using different exes ...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 1:33 am
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Jarod's help post
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4624
Re: How to download, setup and run EAW 1.6 - A few clicks and you're in the air!
I'm assuming that you have been able to start the game and fly.
Can you post a screen of the exact message you get when the game crashes?
Regarding the map command, check the eaw.ini file. There should be a line like this:
PILOT MAP=ALT M
Your setup is much the same as mine!
Can you post a screen of the exact message you get when the game crashes?
Regarding the map command, check the eaw.ini file. There should be a line like this:
PILOT MAP=ALT M
Your setup is much the same as mine!
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:01 pm
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Jarod's help post
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4624
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 10:57 am
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Moggy's Log January 2024
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1150
Re: Moggy's Log January 2024
I do think this problem comes down to the "default airbase" bytes in airfields.dat. In the default setup every airbase is designated either as the default base of a particular aircraft slot, or as the default base of all allied or axis slots. When we move the bases all around with the targ...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 9:53 pm
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Jarod's help post
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4624
Re: How to download, setup and run EAW 1.6 - A few clicks and you're in the air!
You need to install the "runtime" files from the link in the top post
See: https://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ ... ost4559191
See: https://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ ... ost4559191
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:37 am
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Biggles Lives! (Not exactly)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1836
Biggles Lives! (Not exactly)
War Blade review – RAF flyboys take on the Nazis in pointless autopilot action https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/31e223dc54fbf147f0f40f4f0c737e7922391a67/0_265_7952_4774/master/7952.jpg?width=620&dpr=1&s=none The plucky chaps of dear old Blighty on a mission to infiltrate a bunker come up again...