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Old 08-07-2009, 01:27 AM   #1
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Smile DarkStar88 - Lucasfilm - Battlehawks 1942

Review, boxscans, floppy images*, ring-bound manual scan...the works. Had this game back when I was a little-bitty sprout, found a copy with the whole shebang for $2 at a thrift store just today. :woot2:

This is a sweet DOS WW2 flight sim that Abandonia should be graced to have!

*the game includes both 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 size disks. I should be able to get one of our ancient 5 1/4 drives to work, and hopefully the floppies are still good.

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Old 08-07-2009, 01:44 AM   #2
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can we have some nice pics of it?
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Old 08-07-2009, 02:00 AM   #3
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You'll get nice pics of the whole thing. The 'manual' is not only a game manual but has so much factual content (all of it 100% accurate) it could also be considered a war-history/reference book/technical manual all in one. As a matter of fact, the historical content is mixed in so well with the game-related stuff it's almost impossible to say where one ends and the other begins! :weird:

Oh yes - and did I mention the foldout maps of the four sea battles...in full color?
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Old 08-07-2009, 02:03 AM   #4
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Can you scan and post some pics here on the forum? :P
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Old 08-07-2009, 02:23 AM   #5
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I'll see if I can get my scanner working with one of my boxes. (had to rebuild them both quite recently)

Here we go. Note that these are quick-and-dirty scans; I don't know what the heck caused those funky slanted lines.

A scanned battlemap---



Boxshots---



And finally a two-page spread---

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Old 08-07-2009, 02:54 AM   #6
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nice!
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Old 08-07-2009, 03:38 AM   #7
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Thanks! Sorry about the massive size, forgot about that. And I'll see about those **** lines.

As to the rest of the stuff - how do I upload disk images and everything?
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Old 08-07-2009, 03:46 AM   #8
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Very shiny!
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Old 08-07-2009, 11:51 AM   #9
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[APPROVED] I'll send you a PM with instructions about how to upload it on FTP.

Have you got some screenshots too?
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Old 09-07-2009, 06:30 PM   #10
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Will get the screenshots up by end of today.

One of the 5 1/4 disks won't read, but thankfully the 3 1/2 copied without a hitch. Scanned the reference card and working on the manual now; I'll try to stitch all the copy-protection pics together as a single JPEG for convenience's sake.

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Stupid $#%& zonealarm blocking all the imagesharing sites ...here we go AT LAST.






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