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This is a repost from the combatsim forums. which have been closed down a few years ago. Gratefully somebody backed up that thread in the webarchieves here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220401184145/https://community.combatsim.com/topic/49688-things-you-may-not-know-about-ef2000/

Special thanks ...

Sounds interesting, thanks. Will give it a try at some point.

Transfer from Discord:

With Cheat Mode active and at leasrt SHIFT+F11 pressed one pressing SHIFT+NUMPAD DEL enters a special map mode.

In this mode you see a window to the bottom right that displays a top down view of the overflown terrain using in game graphics. A smaller window to the top right ...

You never learn out! That's a really great find! Thanks for sharing it.

Maybe we could start this way. Maybe I can find something in the extracted files. Seems to me for example that there is a file that defines the number of allowable missions in the different Simulator sections. Forgot about the file name though, but it seems that more missions could be created ...

At the moment it's SC that is often crashing. So it needs to be determined what works and what not. I have created a Simulator mission as well. Interestingly in the unaccelerated version of v2.0 the name you give the mission is retained, in the accelerated version the mission is renamed to Addon ...

Did some trials with with SC. It works with the unaccelerated DOS version of v2.0. It essentially works with the accelerated version as well, albeit it triggers a "wrong version" warning. You can essentially copy paste the _EF2000.exe from the DOS version to 3DFX it the warning will not be triggered ...

Just for info, in campaign mode the game crashes when entering 3D. In Simulator mpde I had no issues. Also interesting is that the game doesn't start, if MIDI music is enabled. If you switch in sim from CD to MIDI pressing ALT+M the music works however.

Apparently.

Haven't really noticed a difference.

Which may hint that maybe specific game mode related files are missing from the extraction and the game can't load them as they are missing in the extracted files or located in a wrong sub-directory. Maybe there are also some files that need to be in the DID.dat?

I don't know how the extraction ...

I have only replaced the DID.dat and added the 3 folder with the German efa.3 model. Which DID.dat are you using, or have you removed it? Could imagine that maybe the files are possibly incomplete, i.e. missing from the DID.dat and in extracted form? Where are the "unknown files placed in their ...

Sure, makes sense to use the new X version.

Have taken a look at the "unkown" files. Their names are pretty similar to what was posted with regard to the "languages" file. Seems that other files are pointing to these. They can be opened with a text editor, but need some further investigation with regard to which files point to them. This may ...

Just some thoughts about a 30th anniversary release or EF2000 Reloaded v2.0:

1.) Extracted version of EF2000 v2.0 DOS 3DFX ready to run and maybe preconfigured.

2.) Reloaded front end incl. DOS Box as is.

3.) Revisiting and updating docs and instructions.

4.) Embed the DOS tools and make them ...

Well, that seemed to work although I'm not sure how to best package the solution.
I've edited the model files and removed the original model efa.3 from did.dat.
I've then created a new did.dat (from the files I happen I to have handy, which may not be complete) and moved the EF2000 models to a '3 ...

That raises the question whether that langdef file is also available in EF2000, or at least SEF2000? If I'm not mistaken, the insignias/roundles used in F-22 are not impacted by the installed game language though.

The interesting aspect of the DOS version of EF2000 is that the insignias seem not to be hard coded in the exe, unlike in Super EF2000. I have placed the _ef2000.exe from the German version of EF2000 TACTCOM into the UK version and it neither changed the game's language, nor the insignias, unlike ...

Even V2.0 has a flag somewhere for installation language. The file 'mainmenu.gui' from V2.0 still contains some French and German text, and if I swap the words 'english' and 'german', so it's reacting to the word 'english' rather than taking the first position in the list.
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I can't ...

I think I did that already, here: http://simforums.krishty.com/viewtopic.php?t=426
I patched the original EF2000 with all available patches, also offered them all as separate installed folders, so that people can compare each version step by step.


Hello Menvra,

were you the creator of the ...