I feel that I have reached Terminal velocity in terms of content about Digital Integration's Tornado flight sim on the
website that TornadoMan built.
Since 2003, I've scoured the whole WWW in search of material for this venerable simulator. In 2016, I upped the ante by redesigning the
Tornado site and adding tons of Javascript stuff to it. The purpose of the site was two-fold. (1) To load it chock-ful of DI Tornado-related stuff; (2) to experiment with Javascript, JQery and CSS programming. Now, after finding more than 400 Tornado-related links on the Net, I feel that there is almost nothing more to add (I think I have scrapped the WWW barrel clean), other than to maintain the site and its
sister site.
My journey started back in 2002. I had decided to try the Tornado Desert Storm demo. I was most unimpressed by the graphics at first. Turned off actually. However, further website reviews of Digital Integration's simulation convinced me that this was a deep simulation. I knew I needed to get hold of the original hardcopy manual to get the most out of it. Then in 2003, a kind man named Mike McDonald from Texas sent me a boxed set via Ebay. It had belonged to a pilot that he knew. That was the genesis of my Tornado website.
In 2016, I finally made contact with David Keith Marshall, the co-founder of Digital Integration, before sadly, he passed away. This year, I also received the x86 assembly language source code from the original programmer, although 23-year old 16-bit x86 ASM code is harder understand than Egyptian hieroglyphics. I have also sent to and received emails from Tornado fans from around the world, many who remember the game fondly. Some some who still play the game now and then. I have also gained an deep admiration and respect for the original programmers of the game. They wrote a classic flight simulator, complete with a killer mission planner, with limited resources and computing power of the time (circa 1993).
So, coming back to my Subject's question.
What's a nice game to create a tribute website/fansite to? Off my head, I have
Domark's SVGA Harrier (previously AV-8B Harrier Assualt before it got the SVGA makeover). Another candidate would be
A10 Cuba! with its (then) reknown physics. Both are flat-shaded polygon flight sims, but I am open to other simulation genres.
Carrier Command (!?). Civilization? Some classic landmark wargame from the past?
Any ideas or suggestions, anyone?