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EAW in Review

There is a kind of “Retro” movement going on to revive and update old video games. The EAW community is far ahead of the curve on this, and the story of the community itself is at least as interesting as new game developments.

SimHQ Forums was among the first to examine European Air War when it appeared on the flight sim market in November of 1998. It’s time to review and update the status of this seven-year old game.

Despite its age, EAW is among SimHQ’s most popular flight sim forums, with over 63,000 current posts and many members. Forum member “Pisis” (David Kraus) calculated back in July that if you include the EAW archives, you get 229,393 posts here alone. Posts elsewhere and in now-defunct forums bring the total to over 400,000.

Why do they care? And what’s changed?

This was the look of EAW in 1998-1999 when it was new in 640×480 resolution.

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