[RKDinOKC]

Visiting a friend in Dallas he had a mac setup with 3 21inch monitors so it was like the front and two side windows around you like an airplane. He had a game called Hellcats of the South Pacific. A mutual friend was they guy that wrote the software. He wrote it to take advantage of the 3 monitors.

We took turns flying sorties with the monitors and game controllers and pedals etc that made it very realistic for a home game. The graphics were vector graphics but still very realistic.

The Helcats were supposed the fly in at high altitudes, then dive bomb their targets. Instead of flying in high, I flew very low like a cruize missle. Because I was so low I could take out the ack ack guns on the target base, then gain altitude and bomb the ground aircraft with impunity. It made the programmer mad. He said he was going to give me a copy of the game, but now I was going to have to buy it.

One mission was to bomb a Japanese carrier. Your plane aways go shot down by the guns on the carrier. Then I did my cruise missle thing barely clearing the waves. It was lower than the carrier could shoot. To bomb the carrier I flew thru the open fantail of the Japanese carrier and dropped my bombs while flying thru. I was the only one that was able to sink that carrier. One time my plane was shot up and I bailed. Parachuted onto the deck of the carrier. The game said I was found by friendlies and returned to the base. He said he was going to have to fix that.