Certainly one of the best World War II combat flight sims of its time and arguably one of the best ever, Aces of The Pacific features a huge number of planes, decent controls, a nice 3D graphics-engine and good enemy AI.
As the game title implies, this one covers the US-Japan conflict. From MigMan's review:
"[the game] had detailed cockpits, different for each aircraft type and some of the most detailed ground objects seen at that time in a VGA sim. The sim had a fully featured flight recorder, so you could record and playback missions, and jump in and out of the cockpit during replay. Many levels of damage were modelled. Carrier Ops and Torpedo attacks were available. The aircraft had moving control surfaces and you could fly for both sides, USA and Japan, and in the Army, Navy or Air Forces."
With the excellent Red Baron and then this WWII game, Dynamix and its star designer Damon Slye climbed up really fast to the heights of being flight simulation gods... ;) or sort of. Ok, these games look very dated nowadays, but back then around here there was all the craze going on about their games. :) It's a real conventional memory monster and thus a bit hard to get to run.
Also check out the good successor Aces over Europe, which covers the European theatre of war. Last but not least, you can also download the rare WWII: 1946 add-on. This disk adds the following aircraft: US: F7F, F8F, P-80, F2G-2 Japanese: J7W Shinden, Kikka, Ki-83. It also adds all-new "What-if" careers that recreate what may have happened if the US hadn't dropped the nuclear bombs on Japan and instead invaded the island.
Review By HOTUD
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I use to play Aces of the pacific (AOTP) when it first came out. Absolutely loved it. I've been studying WWII in the south pacific out of personal interest - off and on - for past 3 years. Got thinking about AOTP a few days ago and how much fun it was and looked for it - and Eureka - found I can downloard 'free' onto my desktop computer with Windows 11. Now I want to buy a joystick. But which one. Use to have one in the old daze - simple and worked well.
What can I buy that is simple, relaible and compatible between my "Dell DeskTop & Win11" - and - with "AOTP" ?
Serious thanks for your assistance.
I'm an old-timer retired Helicopter Pilot with a fixation on Aircraft Carrier Campaigns in the South Pacific. And even more so now that I have studdied the history from Pearl Coral Sea - Midway - Turkey Shoot - all the way to Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
To those who served - many thanks.
CoastalTrader
Use FreeDOS in virtual machine by: virtualbox, qemu, 86PCEM (or derivatives forks), proxmox or vmware sets to "Windows 10 32 Bits mode" for better velocity.
The game runs fine in DosBox on Windows 11. You drop bombs with the backspace key. Set dosbox CPU cycles to "Max" to get the best gameplay and faster load times. To change settings in dosbox, go to the folder where it is installed on your PC. Open the xxxOptions.bat file and make adjustments. Save the file and test. Here are my SB settings which sound great. Remember that you have to run the install.exe in the folder where the game is installed. Run it with Dosbox and you can set you sounds settings from PC speaker, to Sound Blaster.
sbtype=sb16
sbbase=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
sbmixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplemu=default
oplrate=44100
How do I drop a bomb/torpedo?
how do you make it load faster?
Great game, def don't make em like they use to.
Anyone have the dosbox conf file that works with proper soundblaster settings?
So enjoy this game. Still play it. I would so enjoy it if someone could explain how I can improve the graphics.
Almost 30 years past since then ...
Does NOT work in Dosbox...dont even bother...waste of time
I have downloaded over 20 games from different platforms and years and i cant get one to work! i have a dosbox plus old games starter and Im running windows 10, everytime i run the exe file it just says "this app cant run on your PC, check with the software publisher to find a version that does" can anyone help me out???
Thank You. Good Game
I played this one a lot, even had extra memory installed on my 486-DX2 computer for this game. The rewarding feeling when i took the nr.1 spot in the list of Aces! The satisfying chill when i survived a bail and got a purple heart.. The countless hours of slow rolling, tactical climbing and .. another score! Memory lane here ;)
get dosbox for old games on windows 7
Hello . I would like to ask a question about the aces of the Pacific game. How do I work it in win7 ? I love this game and I want to kill the longing to play, if possible send the reply to the email mago_branco@hotmail.com . thank you
My favourite game when I was kid. Lots of content compared to nowadays c.f.sims
hope it works
New but fearless.
Does anybody know how to get the joystick working? I can`t select it (only mouse and keyboard works)??? Thanx!
I loved and still love this game...really tough dogfight action!
i feel goog
Great Game
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