I recently wanted to play this great game again and so therefore installed it, thinking I may now be able to master it, it was way deep when I was a kid. My number one reason for installing it was because I thought a helicopter sim game would be fun to play on a laptop touchpad. Having perused the web I stumbled on your website and youtube vids, I see that you are an authority in the world of LB2 modding. Perhaps you can help me out, is there a way to configure it to touchpad?
@WolfgangFierce Glad you found my site/videos and like them. I have never had anyone ask about playing a sim with a laptop touchpad before, and I don't believe it's possible with LB2. Why would you want to? Anyhow, only the mouse controls are repeated with touchpad, in LB2 this is the PFZ creation/deletion on the MFD pages.
@FlyboyHelosim Thanks for your reply! Indeed I get a sense of your passion for flight sims from ur site it made for enjoyable viewing! Perhaps the US army should recruit u to fly their planes and they'd improve, though I do not condone war. The reason I wanted to play on a laptop touchpad was cos I thought it'd be a nice game to play on the move and I don't wanna lug a joystick around and I thought a touchpad was more 'helicopter-y'. Which would u rather fly on one, a plane sim or helicopter?
@WolfgangFierce Further to my 1st post, with help from ur site I was well chuffed to get my chopper up in the air, the touchpad idd just allows me to create PFZs on the MFD as u say which is all good, but my main sorrow is that I don't have a numberpad on my laptop, and although I remapped all the keys to other buttons when I run the tutorial it tells me to hit numberpad-. to enter HUD mode. Lo unfortunately as much as I trawl the reconfigurable buttons I cannot see anywhere to change this one:(
@WolfgangFierce I don't know what you mean by 'enter HUD mode', but all I know is that yeah, most newer laptops don't have NumPad keys and you have to reconfigure the controls to other keys. The only problem with this is, on modern computers there seems to be a bug in LB2 where after each mission the keys default, so you have to keep reconfiguring them.
@WolfgangFierce If you mean which one would I rather fly on a touchpad - definitely a plane sim. With a plane you really only have to master one axis - forward, with a heli you have to keep almost constant input on all controls meaning forward, left, right, up and down - just to fly in a nice straight line.
This was a great game. I want to re-install it, but can't find the first disk. Does anyone know if it's been re released or somewhere i can download it from?
Thanks for that, amazed to see it still about. Iv'e found a reliable download for it. Iv'e installed it, but it dosen't want to run under xp it seems. I'm just in the process of getting that worked out.
? wasnt that on some easier settings? i have this sim, but crap - i can't get it running under XP. I tried lot of trick from internet, but cant get it running. Too bad i lovved that one.
The real apache and the game both have priority cycle fire meaning it will target the most dangerous targets first and then go down the line. The PFZ prioritizes the targets even further. Now locking is subjective. The radar will keep track of the target's last known location so you don't need to keep a lock on targets that aren't moving. So an SA system that's not going anywhere can be shot from behind a hill without the SA system able to target you.
uhhh i didnt see the date XD
Isegrim1S9T8P0 1 day ago
Yeah that was a nice time with that old Helicopter Sims. :)
But have you ever heard of DCS Blackshark or DCS Blackshark 2.0
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Isegrim1S9T8P0 1 day ago
i love his game before especially when my co-pilot says
hellfire away! Hellfire away! Launching hellfire! SHIT WERE HIT!
Mrtourist123 2 months ago
I would kill the radio guy:
Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away! Hellfire away!
LukRacer 1 year ago 2
@LukRacer That's actually the co-pilot, and yeah it is unfortunate that he says something for EVERY Hellfire launch!
FlyboyHelosim 1 year ago
Dear Flyboy/Gaz,
I recently wanted to play this great game again and so therefore installed it, thinking I may now be able to master it, it was way deep when I was a kid. My number one reason for installing it was because I thought a helicopter sim game would be fun to play on a laptop touchpad. Having perused the web I stumbled on your website and youtube vids, I see that you are an authority in the world of LB2 modding. Perhaps you can help me out, is there a way to configure it to touchpad?
WolfgangFierce 1 year ago
@WolfgangFierce Glad you found my site/videos and like them. I have never had anyone ask about playing a sim with a laptop touchpad before, and I don't believe it's possible with LB2. Why would you want to? Anyhow, only the mouse controls are repeated with touchpad, in LB2 this is the PFZ creation/deletion on the MFD pages.
FlyboyHelosim 1 year ago
@FlyboyHelosim Thanks for your reply! Indeed I get a sense of your passion for flight sims from ur site it made for enjoyable viewing! Perhaps the US army should recruit u to fly their planes and they'd improve, though I do not condone war. The reason I wanted to play on a laptop touchpad was cos I thought it'd be a nice game to play on the move and I don't wanna lug a joystick around and I thought a touchpad was more 'helicopter-y'. Which would u rather fly on one, a plane sim or helicopter?
WolfgangFierce 1 year ago
@WolfgangFierce Further to my 1st post, with help from ur site I was well chuffed to get my chopper up in the air, the touchpad idd just allows me to create PFZs on the MFD as u say which is all good, but my main sorrow is that I don't have a numberpad on my laptop, and although I remapped all the keys to other buttons when I run the tutorial it tells me to hit numberpad-. to enter HUD mode. Lo unfortunately as much as I trawl the reconfigurable buttons I cannot see anywhere to change this one:(
WolfgangFierce 1 year ago
@WolfgangFierce I don't know what you mean by 'enter HUD mode', but all I know is that yeah, most newer laptops don't have NumPad keys and you have to reconfigure the controls to other keys. The only problem with this is, on modern computers there seems to be a bug in LB2 where after each mission the keys default, so you have to keep reconfiguring them.
FlyboyHelosim 1 year ago
@WolfgangFierce If you mean which one would I rather fly on a touchpad - definitely a plane sim. With a plane you really only have to master one axis - forward, with a heli you have to keep almost constant input on all controls meaning forward, left, right, up and down - just to fly in a nice straight line.
FlyboyHelosim 1 year ago
This was a great game. I want to re-install it, but can't find the first disk. Does anyone know if it's been re released or somewhere i can download it from?
arolyo 1 year ago
Never re-released, but the .ISO disk images can be downloaded from various torrent sites.
FlyboyHelosim 1 year ago
@arolyo Well, if you can't find the disk and don't want to use torrents, it's available on Amazon.
Ownage2themax3 1 year ago
Thanks for that, amazed to see it still about. Iv'e found a reliable download for it. Iv'e installed it, but it dosen't want to run under xp it seems. I'm just in the process of getting that worked out.
arolyo 1 year ago
Yes
FlyboyHelosim 2 years ago
? wasnt that on some easier settings? i have this sim, but crap - i can't get it running under XP. I tried lot of trick from internet, but cant get it running. Too bad i lovved that one.
DudeNumberOnePlus 2 years ago
I Have LB2 since the 90s and it's still working on XP , in High resolution :)
instal lb2
instal lb2209i.exe
instal lb2_ddu.exe
instal wac_lb2
instal glidewrapper 080e
lb2 graphics configuration , choose 3dfx
run turbo.exe at 22%
laminarwing 2 years ago
Dude, thanx, i try that. i tried just ddu and wrapper, and no joy. Thanx again :D
DudeNumberOnePlus 2 years ago
So you can destroy all the targets within the PFZ without having to lock them up?
m4ace 2 years ago
The real apache and the game both have priority cycle fire meaning it will target the most dangerous targets first and then go down the line. The PFZ prioritizes the targets even further. Now locking is subjective. The radar will keep track of the target's last known location so you don't need to keep a lock on targets that aren't moving. So an SA system that's not going anywhere can be shot from behind a hill without the SA system able to target you.
orlock20 2 years ago