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[Clark78]

Hello,

Yes, I can reproduce it their, it is exactly the same unfortunately. Happened after 3 times.

I like your setup by the way. I normally run with Super2xsai in scaler in Dosbox which softens all the jagginess so it looks quite differently. By the way, what does Night Level (Free or Fixed) in the Preferences screen mean?

Thanks,
Clark

[Frankie]

Hi Clark78

The "Night Level (Free or Fixed) in the Preferences screen" must be a Tornado 1.0E addition since I have the Tornado Version 1.0 Manual and there is no mention of free or fixed options for the Night.

Night Levels - there are 4 levels of night.
If you run tornado's FLIGHT.EXE from the DOSBox command line like so:

FLIGHT /a /n1
-or-
FLIGHT /a /n2
-or-
FLIGHT /a /n3
-or-
FLIGHT /a /n4

then you will see that each level brings the night to a later (and darker time).

So I believe that Free means that if you play a mission long enough, the night sky will gradually move from one level to another level, starting from the start time of the mission.
And that Fixed means that the night sky will remain fixed at the night level of the starting time of the mission.

Regards
Frankie Kam

Update:
See this download link https://www.scribd.com/document/276126728/Tornado-Manual-PC-En#download specifically page 65. That page reads :-

Miscellaneous preferences
We have introduced one extra option - Night Level. When this option is “Free”,
all four night levels will occur i.e. from dusk to pitch black. In normal ambient
lighting conditions, the darker levels (3 and 4) can make the game difficult to play.
By setting this option to “Fixed”, only levels 1 and 2 will be used by the program"

I just found this out. Haha.

Of course it is difficult to play at Night Levels 3 and 4 since Tornado out of the box didn't come with the NVG (green flourescent) colour views that the modded version has with Shift+Tab (to toggle NVG on and off).

Regards
Frankie Kam

[Clark78]

Very interesting! Thanks! I also only have the 1.0a manual, and no mention of it in the Desert Storm manual.

Will experiment a bit with it.

Thanks,
Clark

[Frankie]

Hi Clark78

I added you to the credits window. Download the latest FLIGHT.EXE and hit the front slash "\" key.

Cheers
Frankie Kam

[Clark78]

Nice, thanks a lot! It is you who do all the hard work though

Cheers,
Clark

[Tom N]

Many great infos, thanks, Frankie! Keep going (just my lifesign after ages)!
EDIT: Many thanks to everyone, keeping this gem alive!

[Tom N]

tornado2.com has expired.

[Frankie]

Hi Tom

Thanks for highlighting this.

Just substitute tornado2.com with moodurian.com. Works the same. The domain tornado2.com has nostalgic value, but other than that, moodurian.com domain serves the same purpose. So I thought I wouldn't need to spend money maintaining two domains that point to the same server.

Regards
Frankie Kam

[Tom N]

Sorry, this might have been a point some years earlier (and i just forgot about that). Thank you for the Reply, I will change my link on youtube to your page accordingly.