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Hello Group,

been lurking for a few days, and then went out and purchased BOBII. Installed the V2.11 and the multi-skin. Have nearly the full eye candy going on with my Video. My system specs: i5 with 3.33ghz cores, 8GB DDR3 memory, and an ATI Radeon 5700 series video adapter. Pushing a Samsung SyncMaster P2450 24" flat panel.

Have also added a few other mods; green acres, RAF sounds, river/road mod, gauges, etc. Followed up with the ATI V-sync, and utilizing the LMA utility too.

Tweaked the bdg.txt too, those Axis rear gunners ought to be Olympic shooters!

What a hoot playing this game!

I'm planning on purchasing the TrackIR 5. (as a B-day present to myself).

Any rate, a big thank you to all the developers and contributors. I've learned a lot just lurking, and appreciate the coding efforts of the developers, and the testers. Nice job!

kind regards,

-Javelina
(in Arizona)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peccary

Welcome to the dark side! Feel free to ask questions as you go...we may learn something!

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thanks Heinkill.

I've been scanning through the postings, looking for additional MOD's to add. I presume anything that is post the V2.11 release date is fair game to add. (Since V2.11 incorporated a lot of the cool stuff, I presume).

I spent a fair amount of time with SHIII, adding the Grey Wolves pack, and a ton of MOD's on it too. So I really do appreciate what the community can do to help enhance these games. Great job to all with BOBII!

Currently using a Logitech Attack 3 joystick. Would like to have the TrackIR 5, and a new joystick. Will hunt around for some recommendations.

regards,

-Jav

Hi javelina, welcome to BOBII and the BOBII forums and community.

Your PC looks super and BOBII should love it. The User manual is also your BOBII friend as it contains detail information to understand how to take advanage of of BOBII's many options and features. Just take a quick scan of appendix A and H and the information on the GUI options to better understand the over 200 keys and Bdg.txt parameters (game options). The Single Pilot's Campaign is also a seperate Beta Maunal.

Look for your User manuals and key card in your BOBII folder in the Docs folder.

We all hope you continue to enjoy "The Time Machine" for would be BOB pilots and BOB fans or any WWII history or A/C buffs.

Take your time as the BOBII learning curve is a bit high for some.

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Buddye

Intel I7 920 processor (2.66GHz, 8MB cache), 6GB DDR3 Triple Channel @1333MHz, 1.8GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295, Sound Blaster X-Fi PCI Sound Card, Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit , CH Fighter Stick & Pedals ,TrackIR4 Pro thanks to BobII crew.

thanks Budeye, appreciate the help. You ain't kidding about the learning curve.

Especially learning the best attack approach on those bombers.... I'll be reading up some more.

I went ahead and pulled the trigger on a TrackIR 5.... An online retailer had a 4th of July savings, (no tax or shipping costs either). Ok, for our British cousins, they're probably thinking 4th of July?! Huh?! (LOL, just having fun mates).

Looking forward to adding this to my BOBII experience (and any other games that can utilize it).

Good purchase as many of us enjoy TrackIR but you now have another setup and learning curve.

Here is your home work before you TrackIR arrives:

viewtopic.php?f=48&t=6524

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Buddye

Intel I7 920 processor (2.66GHz, 8MB cache), 6GB DDR3 Triple Channel @1333MHz, 1.8GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295, Sound Blaster X-Fi PCI Sound Card, Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit , CH Fighter Stick & Pedals ,TrackIR4 Pro thanks to BobII crew.

javelina,

All of my Mods are good to go with v2.11 version of BoBII.



I still have not bought a TrackIR. Want to one day. Hell, I am probably the last old man in the world that still refuses to buy a cell phone.
Invasion of privacy, I say.

Happy 4rth of July, Arizona!

I am married to a Filipina woman that was born in Ilocos del Norte, Appari, 1950. Met her in Long Beach, California, just after she fled from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, working as a maid.
Some problem with her master's son giving her more attention than was desired!!
Her master, Abdurafman, asked where she wanted to go.
"Hawai'i" Elizabeth told him.
"OK, done. Also here is a gold necklace. Appraised value of $350.00. Do not lose it. Sorry that things did not work out here for you. Go with God!"
Elizabeth has pawned off that necklace 3 or 4 times during our marriage to pay the rent!
She still has it. Worth more $ now than back in 1980. What's the price of gold today? $1,487 per ounce?
When I quit a Nevada gold mining Company, back in 1994, gold was only $350 per ounce. Times have gotten tough!
Diamonds are a girl's best friend!

Err...
After WWII, the Americans, under the order of (D) President Harry Truman, gave up the old colony,
and on 4 July (1946) the Filipinos also celebrate Independence Day.
At least the old folks that were under the boots, bullets, & swords of the Japanese Imperial Army do!
Some young & dumb, idiot Flip politicians think they can change history, and make Philippine history any damn thing they like, like declaring that
Independence Day should be 1898, some such arbitrary date in June.
A lot of USA soldiers & sailors paid a high price in BLOOD to liberate the Philippines, from the IJA!!
They can try to re-write history, pass all kind of stupid laws, rewrite the school books, but no-one can change history's true essence.
There will be no book burning in my USA!

Sorry for the rant.. I am a political animal. A confessed low class scum Worker & Socialist. My daddy worked for the US Government, and my Mom was a State (Montana and Nevada) Public School Teacher.
My only sister (whom never lived anywhere but Phillips County.. You ain't been around, sis!) is a ranch wife in northern Montana, far right Republican. We are not close..
I loved & miss.. the Arizona cowgirl, Sandra Day O'Conner.

Aloha!

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"Toto! I don't think we are in Kansas anymore!" Dorothy, OZ
"sniff.. sniff.. Snort! ARF! GGRRRR! ARF! (Tod der stinkenden republikanischen Partei, diesem ignoranten religiösen Monstrum.)" Toto

Ask and ye shall receive...

Bomber attack tips video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3U4dB8pafg

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Thanks Budeye. Feels like I'm back in graduate school, all over again. all goodness though!

Stickman,

Happy 4th to you mate! Aloha back at ya! Wifey and I paid a visit to Hawaii a few years back. Was our first ever visit there. Spent 2 days on Oahu, visited the USS Arizona, went aboard the USS Missouri. Strolled Waikiki... Then took a puddle jumper to Maui, and spent the 8 days over there. We loved every minute of it! what a beautiful part of the world.

I must say, you do excellent work! I've followed through your threads, and have implemented several additions and/or tweaks already. hats off, and many thanks to you!

Here in Phoenix, we hit 118F the other day. For the next 3 months, is the toughest go, heat wise. But if it wasn't for the heat, the tourists would never leave.

That's quite a story, and a bit of history. One day I'll share some of mine. My grandfather was in the German 6th Army during WWII, and fought and was captured at the battle of Stalingrad. he survived, and managed to make it back to Germany in 1948. Having spent all of his POW time working in a salt mine. He made the march on foot, from Stalingrad to Moscow, just in time to be paraded before Stalin on the May day parade in Red Square.

have a great holiday. it's a pool party for us, today. my pool water is hovering at around 94F. (Have a darker stone pebble tec).

looking forward to more chats.

-Jav (pool side soon)

heinkill,

many thanks! slashing attacks. generally 3 passes to bring down one of those lumbering giants. Quick 2 second bursts, and move along....

I went even as far as manning some of those gun positions just to try and figure out their blind spots. Never come at the bombers from the rear, dead on. the frontal assault, and slashing from the side. perfect. Now if I can just keep the 109's off my bum. (and avoid any negative g maneuvers).

I'll be spending a bit of time on youtube, going through all these videos.

I managed to setup a single pilot campaign. and on my second sortie, lead some hurricanes against unescorted Stuka's. Now that was fun!!! (Just wish I had more ammo...)

thanks again, looking forward to future chats.

-Jav

javelina,



Wow! A 6th Army survivor from Stalingrad. I'd say he was lucky, but many veterans said.. "You got to make your own luck!" A strong man.
If he was 20 years old at Stalingrad, then you must be about the same age as my 25 year old son is.

Please share share any more personal history that you can, or will.
There are a few things that I've done, that I will not tell my mother, tho. Yet..

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I'm a bit drunk, this 4rth of July, and ain't done any damned work, except repairing an engine manifold - tail pipe, exhaust leak on my 2004 Ford Mustang convertible,
with my son Jack's help. I am a lucky American, in that I still have two of my three children still living on the island and County of Oahu.
My pregnant 2nd daughter, and her Hawai'i National Guard Sergeant husband, I gave my master bedroom up to. Make way for the baby, I say.
I can sleep on a Japanese futon on the floor! Ah... reminds me of sleeping on the floor in Yokosuka, with Tamiko, aka "Crazy Didi" !

You might think I am some kind of bleeding heart Liberal city boy hippie.
Only 1/2 of my life has been spent in cities, and Honolulu is the best one in the USA, IMO.
May have a bleeding heart, but so did Jesus. Maybe the so-called "Christian" Evangelical Republicans ain't reading the same Bible that I read?
Pant...Pant..Pannt..
I'm still a Montana country boy at heart. Like a mountain man, I need no preachers to tell me what to do!

Time for a song. Some old classic Country. The modern Country music stinks, IMO.

Hank Snow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdOD-maw ... re=related

Now... my Kennedy-McKenzie mother, whom loved all kinds of music, from Classical to Nat King Cole (best USA male vocalist ever IMO)
hated Country music. "Ignorant hillbilly crap!" she said, "Especially that twangy steel-slide guitar sound." she moaned.
Well, I love Mom. She has been around the world way more than me. Took my kids to Scotland. Damn! I never been to Scotland, yet.
But I love steel slide table guitars. Here is another song from the old days. Happy 4rth of July, Philippines!

Ernest Tubbs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQD3E-X_ ... re=related

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I confess that I ain't never been to Arizona, and not even seen the Grand Canyon.
One night while driving north up to Winnemucca, Nevada to see Mom, I did pull over and take a nap in the rear of my 1976 Toyota station wagon,
at the Virgin River.
I checked my map. Yep! I am in Arizona, even if only in the far corner slice of it. Nice quiet place. No one bothered me.

Don't know about the problems white Arizonans have with Mexicans, but I also like Mexican music.
The current situation in Mexico is fakked up HOLY HELL!
I stopped using drugs in 1985. Now I'm a beer drinking drunk! Chevron Company makes me pee in the bottle, and breathe into the tube!
Our "Red Commie" Electrical Workers of America, Union still says.. that the Corporate Nazis cannot test us workers for alcohol when we walk into the gate at 0600 hours.
If that was the case, I'd a been dead 14 years ago! They can only test US for alcohol at 1500 hours. OK.
I try to behave myself, and (usually) do not tell the Engineers and Company Managers, "Pull yer head outa yer a$$hole! Ye don't know what the fakk you are doing!"
"Stop trying to climb the Corporate Ladder, and don't step on me on your way up!"

Los Lobos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYLirU_oY3Q

This one is in Los Angeles english:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1tsFsbQ ... re=related

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"Toto! I don't think we are in Kansas anymore!" Dorothy, OZ
"sniff.. sniff.. Snort! ARF! GGRRRR! ARF! (Tod der stinkenden republikanischen Partei, diesem ignoranten religiösen Monstrum.)" Toto

Stickman old Buddy,

the stories you can tell. We'll need to meet up at a "watering hole" at some point. And delve deeper.

My oldest son is 25. My Grandpappy was an Officer. Now my Father on the other hand, had to deal with a whole bunch things. Being drafted at the age of 12, and sent to the Eastern Front. Even more stories there, but he's never been the one to speak about them. Ever.... Left some pretty deep marks.

We had a great time on the 4th. I was flying with the Eagles by late in the afternoon, but the morning was another story...

chat soon,

-Jav