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We know the stinky old 16-bit setup won’t run on modern 64-bit systems. Here is a hack around it, though, if you just need the files that are to be installed! Abstract : On the ADF/TAW disc, you will find a file named data.z . This file is an archive containing the files to be installed (minus those...

Wow, that’s spooky.

My bank’s web portal has an option to upload invoices (as PDFs). It’s supposed to fill out all transfer details for the payment for you. So far, I only tried it once with pretty useless results. Seems like Apple uses an advanced version 😆

Really, go download the Windows Server 2019 trial, set yourself up a non-admin user, and tweak the Group Policy Editor for two days. No Cortana, no antivirus, no forced updates, no weather bars I never asked for. All applications run, just for some old games I had to install the DirectX run-time lib...

Oh no! Anything concerting TFXplorer specifically?!

Windows 11 was forced on me on my work laptop, and I still have to test my projects there …

Some of the additional executable code may come from the copy protection that requires a CD-ROM being inserted:

mikew wrote: ↑2023-Mar-24, 12:39Cool! Do you get a nice big Japanese manual as well?

232 pages … and a headache about how to scan it!

The last page lists the staff.

Localization programmer: Prezam

The only programmer, and three “debug” helpers. Could be someone to search for.

The boxed Japanese TAW comes in version 5.181J , compiled on 1998-10-29 . The executables are a whopping 500 KiB larger than their English counterparts! From a quick look, they actually contain ~500 KiB more executable code, which is a lot. I don’t know (yet) whether this is due to compiler optimiza...

As a very special present: did.dat from the Japanese TAW version, dated 1998-10-28. 3 MiB smaller than the English one!


The CD-ROM also contains the English did.dat, which is identical to one we already have here.

mikew wrote: ↑2023-Mar-23, 16:34I had a quick look at my EF2000 files and that last one above is indeed 'iff\256\korea.lbm' The one above it from Angola but I don't have its exact name.

That’s of great help already. Thank you for the fantastic snapshots ❤️

Yeah, I only picked up this topic due to me fixing the F-22 in Norway bug. I saw that TAW provides moving maps, as does AC3 – but my EF2000 extension was the weirdo that had nothing to display 😅

608E8516.dat : image.png 6A519215.dat : image.png 7094FC24.dat image.png 7A894338.dat must be Korea for sure: image.png There seems to be a ton more (dozens, really). You can search through them like this: Throw all EF2000 files into one folder, or search your extracted directory for * , thus displ...

@mikew do you know if there are overview maps for the abandoned levels from TFX (Angola, Korea, …) as well? I recall seeing something like this in an EF2000 data dump, but I don’t know the files names. Nor do I know if they use the same format. Would be cool if we had overview maps for all of our E...

EF2000 provides a moving map for Norway in the file IFF/256/norwmmap.lbm : image.png It does not require complex logic to display like TAW’s does. It is very much like the overview maps that I already implemented in the Ace Combat 3 extension. Should be quick and easy to implement. add the ILBM load...

Ka-52 hit; pilots ejecting

This looks promising: 2023-03-17 F-22 in EF2000.png I have completely given up on emulating TAW’s F-22 and EF2000’s F-22 in the same extension. It’s two separate extensions now. But this finally allows to have the F-22 from TAW in levels of EF2000. It needs a bit of fine tuning, though. For example,...

tawfix981203 contains one file, and it's udl\f22demo.udl … and the patch just restores it to be the same as in ADF. It’s the unit list for the first demo mission that plays. So I guess we’ll have to wait for a Japanese TAW ISO to find out how they screwed that file up. Maybe they wanted to replace ...

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ADF完全日本語版 also received exclusive patches . Sadly, they are in the same proprietary format as those for the other languages, so I can’t look inside without actually touching my system. ADF完全日本語版 came in three versions : One was the “cheap” one with just an online quick reference. These are its patc...

The Japanese TAW version required patches separate from the known patches for English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Luckily, the Internet Archive has archived the latest patch from 1999-02-19 (version 5.191J ), for D3D as well as Glide: taw0219dx.7z taw0219gl.7z The timestamp on the executa...

Flight sim heritage has two amazing articles about the Japanese versions of ADF ( F-22 Air Dominance Fighter 完全日本語版 , “Complete Japanese Version” ) and TAW . Japanese TAW even comes with Kanji radio messages! cockpit1.jpg I don’t think these modifications are possible without source access, for ADF ...