EF2000 'Training Missions (PC/DOS) DiD, 1995

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  • @jrs4516
    @jrs4516 5 лет назад +236

    i remember seeing this in 95 and thinking it was "photorealistic"

    • @adamw2911
      @adamw2911 4 года назад +18

      Absolutely my thoughts. This was the first sim to really show what was coming. I think as long as you had a Pentium 100 minimum, 16mb of RAM and a 2mb video card this game looked and played superbly.

    • @IceManHG117
      @IceManHG117 4 года назад +5

      Yeah it was a huge step up.

    • @harritudur176
      @harritudur176 4 года назад +4

      EF2000 could only be battled by Jane's AH-64 Longbow!

    • @jwilson2793
      @jwilson2793 4 года назад +6

      Phenomenal for 1995

    • @MrFarnanonical
      @MrFarnanonical 4 года назад +5

      It still looks great, you can see pixels and the gradient in the sky has visible banding but if you recall 1995 was the year donkey kong country 2 came out, and warcraft 2, yoshi's island, mortal kombat 3... Compared to everything else available this looked a decade out of place.

  • @oisiaa
    @oisiaa 2 года назад +110

    I played this when I was about 10 years old. Now I'm a military pilot for real. Parents, foster your kid's interests!

    • @matthuntsboston
      @matthuntsboston Год назад +2

      Great to hear. Loved this sim growing up

    • @db4419
      @db4419 Год назад +2

      Wow that's great sir!

    • @JamesDevine
      @JamesDevine Год назад +5

      I played TFX & Falcon 4.0 so I should be Test Pilot by now….but I became a Wedding Photographer…yay me! I still make noises with model planes…for my kids though…yes that sounds right 😐

    • @lt.lasereyez8891
      @lt.lasereyez8891 Год назад

      @MR-X-17 hey can I ask you what you think about the two dutch KDC10's now being operated by Omega? As a dutch tax payer I'm a little upset, if Omega can operate these old birds wth can't the Dutch airforce?

    • @AreOut
      @AreOut 10 месяцев назад +1

      I envy you, my mother didnt let me play football let alone become pilot...

  • @equaltemper
    @equaltemper Год назад +11

    I got a PC and EF 2000 for Xmas in 1995. I went from playing afterburner on the megadrive the day before to this... that was still one of the most mind-blowing moments I've had playing video games.

  • @3DPeter
    @3DPeter 8 лет назад +98

    the graphics were stunning for that time, and it was a good follow up for TFX.

    • @CakePrincessCelestia
      @CakePrincessCelestia 4 года назад +1

      You literally can see into the cockpit from outside while a year later, in Jane's ATF, the pilot still was a bloody sprite...

    • @garryiglesias4074
      @garryiglesias4074 4 года назад +1

      TFX... I remember tinkering with its installer and Turbo Debugger... Good memories ;).

    • @keepwalking6041
      @keepwalking6041 3 года назад +5

      i learned english as a 12 yrs old child just so i could read the manual in how to drop those damn laser guided bombs.. and now i'm fluid af in english.. love the game, actually even now the dynamic campaign it has is something that is sadly missing in DCS and other simulations..

  • @bilalkhalid266
    @bilalkhalid266 5 лет назад +23

    Pretty damn good simulator for 1995 and considering the aircraft had only just entered development in 1994 it’s is incredibly accurate for an aircraft to this day still so classified

  • @gienneq9285
    @gienneq9285 7 лет назад +41

    This was sooo sickkk!!! My childhood right here💪🙌

  • @Martin-mz9ne
    @Martin-mz9ne 4 года назад +10

    One of the best flight sim I have ever played.

  • @Okazu84
    @Okazu84 6 лет назад +21

    Oh man, thank you for that video. I spontaneously had an inexplicable urge to re-do some of this, after close to 20 years out of it, upon getting home a couple hours ago from work. I felt it was literally calling on me.... but couldn't decide whether to go through all the pain of installing on the DosBox etc agaiin. Your video was the critical factor. The results were : 3 KC-tankers blown up due to air collisions, and finally, old reflexes came back, ,anad the hose was ON, right ON. ahahaha I felt like a proud teenage boy again.

  • @hidayatoceandar5004
    @hidayatoceandar5004 5 лет назад +14

    My great old sim,spent many hours on it from daylight to daylight. Always love that English accent. The graphic, the music, the terrain, the dinamic campaign man......one of the best flightsim ever created.

  • @marcusjohnson7441
    @marcusjohnson7441 5 лет назад +51

    I remember shooting down the refueler out of frustration.

    • @KapiteinKrentebol
      @KapiteinKrentebol 3 года назад +2

      😂

    • @uxmax
      @uxmax 3 года назад +1

      haha yeah same

    • @Blind_Hawk
      @Blind_Hawk 3 года назад +4

      The same thing happens in DCS... it's funny how the simulators keep going and move forward, but the community has the same sticks.

    • @Treizez34
      @Treizez34 3 года назад +2

      🤣

    • @Romaindeud
      @Romaindeud 3 года назад +1

      LOL exactly the same here, I think this is the first time after almost 30 years that I can see the refuel process ...

  • @markruhland3035
    @markruhland3035 Год назад +2

    This vid really takes me back, like a lot of you out there I am sure! I remember being so frustrated trying to shoot enemy fighters down with just the cannon until at some point it just "clicked" after many hours of practice. I wish I could still find it but there was a whole group of people that wrote short stories inspired by this Sim. Written from the perspective of a EF2k fighter pilot in Norway at the time of a war. It was awesome.

  • @MarceloVittorio
    @MarceloVittorio 4 года назад +5

    I spent a lot of time in this game when I was a teenager, the graphics are amazing for that time. In 1995 my IBM Aptiva 800mhz 16MB ram was all about it and #Mirc !

  • @orlandocabelosybarba8355
    @orlandocabelosybarba8355 6 лет назад +6

    OMG I remember everything as it happen yesterday. Hours of gaming I spend for this
    Thank you so much for upload.

  • @arsnakehert
    @arsnakehert 2 года назад +3

    The tension buildup with the music and the slow taxi procedure is awesome, lol

  • @Hellohallo
    @Hellohallo 2 года назад +4

    100% immersive gameplay. the dynamic camaign was absolutly great. i hated later games that kept missing such dynamic gameplay/results based on actions

  • @Bikerboythousand
    @Bikerboythousand 9 месяцев назад

    Takes me straight back to 1995. Played this for years. Sounds like you're using a sound card from 1983 but still brings back great memories. Might install it just to hear the music.

  • @insulin801
    @insulin801 3 года назад +3

    This game is MAX nostalgia for me

  • @t34bravo
    @t34bravo 6 месяцев назад

    This game was the hotness back in the day! I remember playing it and thinking that there's no way graphics could get any better.

  • @_S.H_
    @_S.H_ Год назад

    That music and sounds bring back memories. This was the first PC game I ever purchased in 1996, one day before my first PC was even delivered home. All I wanted to do is to fly and I didn't really care much about missions and I found this game the most photo realistic back then, and I was frustrated that I could only fly in a limited area of the world. I wasn't yet aware of Microsoft Flight Simulator until 2001. Today I fly MSFS 2020 in VR and I am amazed how much technology has advanced.

  • @FrontSideBus
    @FrontSideBus 12 дней назад

    I had the CD-ROM version and I still play the soundtrack on it from time to time even today!

  • @didierdel2319
    @didierdel2319 3 года назад

    Bonjour, merci pour cette vidéo qui me replonge dans ces années formidable. Le début de l'informatique domestique. Mon premier pc est un Aptiva IBM pentium 100 Mhz avec 4 méga de mémoire vive !.

  • @robertoongari3084
    @robertoongari3084 2 месяца назад

    simply amazing. My first flight sim when I was a little boy and to be fair, considering the release year, the graphics and averything were 10 to 15 years ahed of its time.

  • @cgabrielac
    @cgabrielac 3 года назад +2

    I used to play this game with a VFX1 ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFX1_Headgear ) oh boy was the best in my life, I remember when I wanted to relax, I'd go into the simulator with the helmet and all, and I was definitely flying, I was there for hours, even just flying or doing missions....best flight simulator, I remember they had help from a RAF retired pilot to make it the most real possible. Was really incredible, and the VFX1 was the ultimate thing for the experience

  • @SPAINFALCON
    @SPAINFALCON 5 лет назад +3

    El mejor simulador de mi niñez 😍 nunca fue igualado.

  • @stijnvandamme76
    @stijnvandamme76 7 лет назад +7

    graphics were so fluent... game was ace back then.

  • @mohawkdriver4155
    @mohawkdriver4155 5 лет назад +1

    I used to love this game back in the day.

  • @markvine3814
    @markvine3814 3 года назад

    Even now, the graphics look good. Makes me very nostalgic.
    The game had a complex and involved set of controls making it a game that required effort to learn.
    My first PC was purchased in 1995 and had an ATi Mach 64 graphics card with 512 Kb of video ram. To play EF2000 with the best graphics I purchased and installed onto the graphics card board an additional 512 Kb of video memory consisting of two 256 Kb modules inserted into the vacant mounts. Probably my first experience of upgrading PC hardware to get something working.

  • @HiredGoonage
    @HiredGoonage 4 года назад +2

    Soundtrack holds up well

  • @jonathanclarke4529
    @jonathanclarke4529 2 года назад +2

    I was at uni and saw this and got my housemate to buy it. He had a P60 and it was only smooth at 320x240. When my dad got a P200, this was the first game I got. The atmosphere, escape from New York type music, voices and scenery were ridiculously immersive. I got F22 which was great but somehow missed something. For years I couldn’t fly anything else. Falcon 4 looked horrible in comparison as did the Janes games to me although I liked the chopper ones. Remember showing off my air to air refuelling skills. Can’t remember if I was still playing this when I got my force feedback joystick though.

    • @AshleyPomeroy
      @AshleyPomeroy 2 года назад

      I remember turning on time advance and flying down the fjords as if it was the trench run in Star Wars.

  • @sandplasma
    @sandplasma 4 года назад +1

    I remember enjoying this one so much more than Eurofighter Typhoon. That other one was way confusing!

  • @KapiteinKrentebol
    @KapiteinKrentebol 4 года назад +5

    The flightsim that showed how it should be done.
    After this flightsims like Falcon and Flanker you needed to have military flighttraining before you could play and then it still wasn't a lot of fun.

  • @techstepman
    @techstepman 2 года назад +1

    god knows how many hour of flight time i have in this sim...the graphics were amazing for its time. I still throw the music cd in the cd player and listen to it when im flying in dcs and msfs.

  • @draltar
    @draltar 4 месяца назад

    I used to listen to Mike Oldfield "Voyager" album while playing this. Was a great game and one of the best sims at the time (still have the original CD).

  • @VoOdOo-VinZ
    @VoOdOo-VinZ 4 года назад

    So much time of my teenage spent on this one and F22 TAW!!

  • @StandardGoose
    @StandardGoose 4 года назад +1

    This game came free with a PC that I bought with the money I made at a summer job when I was 16 in 1997.

    • @garryiglesias4074
      @garryiglesias4074 4 года назад

      Well maybe because in 1997 gaming was changing: the hardware accelerated graphics were starting: 3DFX and PowerVR. It was the end of software rendering.

  • @jpht1964
    @jpht1964 3 года назад +1

    In 1996 i bought a new pentium 166 mhz PC, especially for this game.... and it played very smooth..

  • @morsatv8910
    @morsatv8910 4 года назад +1

    The possibility of camera switching was great and the fly-by camera and also fly-by sounds were outstanding.

  • @oisiaa
    @oisiaa 2 года назад

    This was cutting edge back in 1995!

  • @MrDeja53
    @MrDeja53 2 года назад

    Remember playing multi-player on Total Entertainment Network.
    3x3 pilots . Cutting edge for its time.

  • @JDski
    @JDski Год назад

    I remember how this game showed off what a Monster Card could do. First they released a regular version, then Monster card enhanced with 3dfx. The difference was incredible with the frame rate increase.

  • @ppwalk05
    @ppwalk05 4 года назад +23

    The manual from this game entertained me for a good many of shits back in the 90s

    • @mcbrite
      @mcbrite 9 месяцев назад

      Mine was falling to pieces, because I read it so often!

  • @whyask8044
    @whyask8044 6 лет назад +1

    My all time favorite

  • @rwhunt99
    @rwhunt99 5 лет назад

    Wow, I flew that, seemed like the weather was always bad, even if you set it to good, lol! I don't remember too much now, but that screen sure brought back memories.

  • @fredsienabrasil
    @fredsienabrasil 5 лет назад

    Simply my favourite videogame ever....

  • @StSeya42069
    @StSeya42069 7 лет назад +3

    TOWER CONDOR TAXI! brings back some memories!

  • @tiga8032
    @tiga8032 Год назад

    remember this being the highest rated game ever at the time.

  • @LowEndPCGamer100
    @LowEndPCGamer100 3 года назад

    this and gp2 were the best looking dos simulators imo

  • @jbaroli
    @jbaroli 6 лет назад +3

    ohh good old memories from the 90s! dosbox my ass! I´m going to re-install it in my K6-2 PC.

  • @albertopajuelomontes2066
    @albertopajuelomontes2066 4 года назад +1

    i think those graphics in 1995 should be super good

  • @stumpusMaximus
    @stumpusMaximus 11 месяцев назад

    It took me 6 months to master Air-to-air refuelling in 1995. Then in 2000 I climbed into the real Eurofighter and did it in my sleep. It was of course a training simulator fitted in to the real mock-up sized plane (full glass cockpit). The ‘growbags’ were impressed when I said that DID trained me 😂
    Nothing beats this in 3DFX

  • @digbyorion4383
    @digbyorion4383 6 лет назад

    Классная игрушка. Мы в неё рубились все 90-е

  • @eval_is_evil
    @eval_is_evil 6 лет назад +1

    Oh man this game blew my mind back then. The night vision effects were pretty bad though :)

  • @Cakey831
    @Cakey831 Год назад

    I had to upgrade my computer for this simulator lol. Much bigger task back then.

  • @rovindosejahtera5515
    @rovindosejahtera5515 2 года назад

    my favorite game in that time !!!❤❤❤

  • @murfad
    @murfad 5 лет назад

    i remember playing this game as a 5 year old. my father had no idea that this game is not for kids haha. i had no idea what i was doing. would love to play again today to see if i'm better today.

  • @RonPrieston
    @RonPrieston 6 лет назад

    I use to play this game for hours, for music I used TFX CD track 3 was awesome for flying.

  • @MrFarnanonical
    @MrFarnanonical 4 года назад +2

    It amazes me how great flight sim games looked in the 90s. once they actually started working in 3d. If you look at ps1 games from the same time, they look kind of terrible, but you really didn't need high res textures or anything for flight sim games. They tend to look way better than anything else from whatever era they're from.
    In this particular game, there's a lack of anti-aliasing but it honestly doesn't bother me at all. For such an old game it still looks great.

  • @situationalawarenes
    @situationalawarenes Год назад

    If anyone knows how to update it to usb joystick.

  • @shirothehero0609
    @shirothehero0609 2 года назад

    such a great sim. oh the good ol days of simming.

  • @vtrvr511
    @vtrvr511 3 года назад +1

    DID's F29 Retaliator

  • @huffers3111
    @huffers3111 6 месяцев назад

    Nice to see the Tornado refuelling on the right hose. Er, is that a Tornado?

  • @rajivgeerman2064
    @rajivgeerman2064 15 дней назад

    Had a gateway 2000 pc with this game on it

  • @petrolekh
    @petrolekh 2 года назад

    I could never get this to run for me on Windows 95. Always fantasized about playing it as a kid based on the box screen shots, but it always eluded me.

  • @Enfors
    @Enfors 3 года назад

    Incursion by hostiles at 138 degrees 6, angels 5 - can you intercept?

  • @joaogabrielchagascaetano
    @joaogabrielchagascaetano 2 года назад

    This game need a reboot today!

  • @AirwolfPL
    @AirwolfPL 6 лет назад +2

    Sweeet memories...

  • @fadidabban
    @fadidabban 2 года назад

    All junior DCS players started here.

  • @louismartinez7040
    @louismartinez7040 5 лет назад +3

    This was from 1995!? Wow it looks great!

  • @MauroMB
    @MauroMB 5 лет назад +2

    Este si es un simulador de vuelo. No como lo de ahora...

    • @TheRealGigaCat
      @TheRealGigaCat Год назад

      Yeah? You think this is better than DCS? Pretty retarded comment.

  • @thejetfighter
    @thejetfighter 4 месяца назад

    DID Games are classic!

  • @lt.lasereyez8891
    @lt.lasereyez8891 Год назад

    This game took like 3 days to boot up on my old 486/66 XD

  • @mortenkul
    @mortenkul 5 лет назад +1

    Haha in the beginning when the voice said "Trondheim Airport Værnes".. I live not that far from it

  • @chenpaul7851
    @chenpaul7851 3 месяца назад

    I love landing on the road with the EF2000, and I succeeded. There is also aerial refueling.
    I from Taiwan. Ef2000 is the best fight.

  • @iviiviviiv
    @iviiviviiv 4 года назад

    I remember that the battle situation did not change much even if I did my best alone.

  • @beatsmithx1090
    @beatsmithx1090 4 года назад

    I played this game alongside tfx, cyclone and future cop

  • @RetroAmateur1989
    @RetroAmateur1989 4 месяца назад

    did this ever came out for mac?

  • @ranahasan24
    @ranahasan24 4 года назад

    Anyone remember a game. Somebody installed fighter jet game in my Pentium 3 system. This game looks very similar with that jet game. I cant recalled game name.

  • @Ribarlan
    @Ribarlan 3 года назад +2

    The most realistic flightsim ever... or what I was thinking back then. Felt like a real pilot and looking down on my classmates who were playing some stupid kid's games. :)

  • @ribenasquash
    @ribenasquash 5 лет назад +1

    If that music is soundblaster midi (which I'm sure it is) then I have to say, Adlib / Soundblaster fm music can be pretty good!

    • @singleproppilot
      @singleproppilot 2 года назад

      This game used Redbook (CD) audio.

    • @ribenasquash
      @ribenasquash 2 года назад

      @@singleproppilot it’s fm music. There’s no question.

    • @singleproppilot
      @singleproppilot 2 года назад

      I may have the original game CD laying around somewhere. No matter what was used to make the music, I’m absolutely sure the music was stored as Redbook. Reference other comments here that talk about using different music CDs for different music in game.

    • @ribenasquash
      @ribenasquash 2 года назад

      @@singleproppilot trust me I know a soundblaster fm tune when I hear it. I’m an fm nerd.

  • @Diegoguatamericonsul
    @Diegoguatamericonsul 5 лет назад +1

    Pentium 120mhz 8megas ram y 1giga disco duro.....año 97... lloro....

  • @문디배설
    @문디배설 Год назад

    wow i remeber this game i was 7y

  • @BordiniBlues85
    @BordiniBlues85 Год назад

    Spend many hours on this❤ great sim you can set many functions on cockpit. The most diffcult thing to me was learn to air refueling..still have the game cd.. these modern windows cant run this😢

  • @edwardman9067
    @edwardman9067 3 года назад

    Music very close to music in UFO1,2

  • @CAL1MBO
    @CAL1MBO 4 года назад

    The graphics are very comparable to the 3D type graphics you would see on the Nintendo DS but at a much higher resolution.

  • @marcquintin7855
    @marcquintin7855 8 месяцев назад

    Remember buying a Voodoo 3 for the version 2.0

  • @Chillysan100
    @Chillysan100 Год назад

    I never knew this game has music...

  • @SALTINBANK
    @SALTINBANK Год назад

    best sim ever : and iam still flying on DCS ...
    Campaign mode was sick : a freedom never seen in any games after ...
    And yeah DID was involved in the military community you can feel it ...

  • @andrenew1491
    @andrenew1491 Год назад

    This is very good game. What is the last compatible windows to play it? Is there any patch for it (game)or only can use DOS to play it?

    • @thriftweeds
      @thriftweeds  Год назад

      While EF2000 is DOS only. EF2000 v2.0 - Special Edition - Super EF2000 is an updated DOS version of EF2000 for both DOS and the Windows 95/98.
      There are two DOS products included: EF2000 & EF2000 TACTCOM (add-on) So the series works on all DOS/W95/98/XP on modern computer "DOSBox"
      The DOS versions have optional 3D hardware accelerated support for 3Dfx Vodoo or Rendition Verite cards. The DOS versions also have a slightly different network functionality and cannot connect to the European version of EF2000/TACTCOM releases.
      The Windows 95 version is similar to the basic DOS EF2000 game and has DirectX support with software rendering. This US Windows 95 version is network play compatible with the European version of Super EF2000.
      Then there's 3rd party projects called EF2000 Reloaded - www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=37956

    • @andrenew1491
      @andrenew1491 Год назад

      @@thriftweeds Thankyou very much for your info Sir. I appreciate it.

  • @sparrowlt
    @sparrowlt Год назад

    15:00 i can hear the other pilot: "TOOMCAAAATSS!!!"

  • @echoplots8058
    @echoplots8058 3 года назад

    It's weird how I got so spoiled by modern games with stunning graphics that I have trouble even recognizing what this game is trying to display on screen.

  • @woodyto
    @woodyto 2 года назад

    I could do all the missions, I could even land with engines off, but I could never refuel in the air, I was close, sometimes I was getting closer, and when I was about to achieve it the tanker plane turned, then I machine-gunned them!
    Podía hacer todad las misiones, incluso podía aterrizar con motores apagados, pero nunca pude recargar combustible en el aire, estube cerca, a veces me estaba acercando, y cuando estaba por lograrlo el avión cisterna giraba, entonces los ametrallaba!

  • @auxiliardepiscineiro
    @auxiliardepiscineiro 7 лет назад

    I remember I was used to press some combination of keys (I guess Ctrl+R or anything like that) and I got a much more realistic game, but with lower speed because of my PC hardware. You should try it! ;)

    • @thriftweeds
      @thriftweeds  7 лет назад

      As i recall in original EF2000 version as in this video i made before the V2.0 patch applied had no difficulty options in menu or via button to set it more realistic/max, but now in updated version and EF2000 Reloaded has this option. (in the other hand Ctrl+R key combination was in Dynamix simulators like Red Baron and Aces of the Pacific to pop-up the menu with difficulty settings ;)

  • @theeltea
    @theeltea 8 лет назад +5

    14:58 - CLOSE CALL

    • @LordExtrasus
      @LordExtrasus 7 лет назад +3

      Maverick goofing around again!

  • @jackstheraptor2791
    @jackstheraptor2791 4 года назад +2

    Who is here after the announcement of developing Typhoon by Eagle Dynamic in DCS ?

  • @stumpusMaximus
    @stumpusMaximus 11 месяцев назад

    This in 3DFX 👍

  • @mtn_bikes
    @mtn_bikes 2 года назад

    Tenho esse jogo desde a época em que foi lançado. Mesmo com o manual, achei bem difícil de jogar.

  • @stumpusMaximus
    @stumpusMaximus 11 месяцев назад

    As an extra. Did you know that this was VR capable in ‘95? I have the official headed letter from DID - letters in those days kids ;) I asked about it and it was £600 with polygons!!

  • @kosiak10851
    @kosiak10851 9 лет назад +2

    Did Eurofighter even exist in 1995?

    • @andreford3197
      @andreford3197 9 лет назад +3

      +kosiak10851 The Eurofighter actually program started in 1993 if I remember correctly (IIRC). Went through a lot of testing and finally started production around 2000. I may be wrong on the actual year but I am sure you can check it out. A remarkable aircraft to say the least and a great simulation.

    • @AlexModeling
      @AlexModeling 9 лет назад

      +Andre Ford absokutly right... back then with other designation... i remember when this sim came out and we were all... WOW!!! great sim and game

    • @andreford3197
      @andreford3197 9 лет назад +1

      It was pretty much the same with me as well when this sim came out. I was full-in with sims such as Falcon 3.0 and Tornado. I was hooked when I first played it although, like other sims, it had some problems. It didn't take long for DiD to supply the fix(es). The Norwegian/Swedish area of operation was fascinating to me to say the least!

    • @albedoshader
      @albedoshader 6 лет назад

      I own the game and the thick manual is full of info about the development and planning back then. The entire war theater simulation was simply amazing back then. The same goes for F-22 TAW, which used an updated war and flight simulation engine. DID made just awesome games.

  • @GoldKingsMan
    @GoldKingsMan 2 года назад

    I had this game, used to think it was Norway v Ruskies.

  • @phflieger
    @phflieger 6 лет назад

    Hey hi, how do you play it today? any sort of emulator or what? thank you

    • @landochabod7
      @landochabod7 6 лет назад

      phflieger It still runs on my old Windows XP, though I'm not sure that's what you were thinking.