EAW Help Site (<- Click for the Main Page)

CONTENTS

SITES | ONLINE PLAY

WRAPPER PROGRAMS | WEIRD COLOR MENU REGISTRY FIXES

EMULATION

JOYSTICK / DEVICE COMBINERS | COMPATIBLE GAMES

REVIEWS | MISC INFO

FORUMS

These are the General active or maintained sites in the EAW Community.

• Tally-Ho - Sandbagger's archived community pages and files (since 2002).
• 352nd Fighter Group - Active Group, Forum and Downloads (re-activated in: 2016).
• EAW Wiki - Very old and outdated, but useful information.
• Flight Sim Mods - vonOben's site. Add-ons, skins, tools, terrain etc. (since 2002).
• RAF Chattenden-Moggy's Site - Contains complete add-ons.
• EAW LaunchPad - VBH's Site, FXEXE / EAWPRO , special effect screenshots.
• EAW On Linux and Mediafire Downloads - FsFOOT's site and files.
• EAW Foundation Pack and CodeGroup Mediafire Downloads - MrJelly's and CodeGroup Files.

Many of these remaining sites are no longer updated.

• European Air War DOT NET - VonBeerhofen's site. FXEXE...
• 341 Squadron FFL -
• 2~/JG51 -
• 56th Fighter Group Skins -
• LLv34 Squad Textures -
• Old Crow EAW -
• Capitán Manduca's EAW Workshop -
• Pisis' EAW Page -
• Czechoslovak Headquarters -
• Neira EAW Contributions -
• EAW Page-Luftwaffe Skins
• EAW SKINs.it
• EAW skiny-Bf109
• Aces Over Gyn -
• EAF - EAW Pilots Group
• EAW Virtual Squad VF-124
• Luftsiege's Home -
• Chompy's EAW Stuff -
• Polish EAW (Wolfmans)
• Jason and Steve's EAW Site
• Jan Tuma`s EAW Page (Old EAW Site)
• Jan Tuma's Cold War Page
• Fangs Out (1024)
• maginot BLOG :: 3ds Max-Maxscript 3DZ importer / exporter for EAW
• maginot BLOG :: EAW-Tutorial for 3ds Max 3dz(txt) importer and exporter
  

Just a few places to play EAW online. (The game uses DirectPlay6.)

• European Air War DOT NET / Launchpad - fly online - EAW Mod: FXEXE / EAWPRO
• GameRanger - fly online - EAW Mod: v1.28 and above.
  
  

These programs (DX; DirectDraw Wrappers) correct the weird colors within the menu screens of EAW. They also allow you to avoid the 7217 graphical error message and menu screen tearing. Use with Win2000, WinXP and WinVista, some have possible use in Win7 and Win8.1/Win10.

• D3DWindower 1.88 - Pass through type (designed for XP but works with Vista,7,8)
• DDWrapper - for DirectX Mode. Very small "program" - Pass through type.
• DxWnd - for DirectX Mode (Works with Win10 and possibly Vista/Win7/Win8)
• DXWrapper - (Not sure it even works with EAW, never tired this one)
• nGlide - for 3Dfx Glide video mode (translates back to D3D, restores Horizon Fog.)
• dgVoodoo - for 3Dfx Glide and DirectX video mode.

If you only need to correct the messed up colored DirectDraw menu screens, these programs will help without having to use a Wrapper program. For WinVista and Win7 use.

• DirectDraw Compatibility Tool - creates a reg file based on specifications of the eaw.exe file you choose. You then install that reg file to create a DDRAW entry that Windows understands as a workaround.
• w7ddpatcher / Updated Source Code - this one does very similar as the one above, but writes directly to the registry.

• EAW On Linux! - This web page is done up to help you play EAW on Linux. How to setup and run EAW on Linux! with Downloads. Also MPS Original Flight School information.
• DOSBox Emulator - Run community made DOS tools in Win2000, WinXP, VISTA, Win7/8.1/10.

These programs / drivers allow you to combine more than one controller into one Device ID, by way of a virtual device. Useful for EAW v1.0-v1.2, FXEXE and when the source code modifications don't cooperate with your devices.
Of course these programs do a lot more on top of just combining your controls.

• Headsoft - VJoy Virtual Joystick Driver -
• Shaul - vJoy - (discontinued)
• ViGEm - Virtual Gampad Emulation Framework (sorta a vJoy replacement)
• evilC - UJR Universal Joystick Remapper (discontinued)
        - UCR - Universal Control Remapper (new UJR replacement)

Some Elements of these Games are Compatible with EAW, primarily some of the 3DZ models and 'skins'. (EAW was built off of the 1942 PAW code.)

• Gunship! (released in 1999) - MobyGames
  (The Gunship! Helipad - Simwarrior.com)
• M1 Tank Platoon 2 (released 1998) - MobyGames
• Fleet Defender (released 1994-95) - MobyGames
• 1942 Pacific Air War (released 1994-95) - MobyGames
• Task Force 1942 (released 1992) - MobyGames
• Across the Rhine 1944 (released 1995) - MobyGames
• Virtual Karts (released 1995) - MobyGames

These are (1998-1999) EAW game reviews.

• European Air War - 360 aerial
• European Air War - MigMan
• European Air War - IGN
• European Air War - GameSpot
• European Air War - GameOver
• European Air War - GameOver
• European Air War - YourGameNews (GamePro)
• European Air War - DosGames (dosraider)
• European Air War - Madgrad
• European Air War - Al Giovetti
• European Air War - CDAccess (Cyber Gamer)
• European Air War  - GameBlitz
• EAW: Multiplayer - CombatSim
• EAW: Flight Model - CombatSim
• EAW: Aircraft - CombatSim
• European Air War Rev1 - CombatSim
• European Air War Rev2 - CombatSim
• European Air War Flight Performance - CombatSim
• European Air War 1.1 patch - CombatSim
• European Air War 1.2 patch - CombatSim
• EAW: Coming Back Alive - CombatSim
• European Air War - GameRevolution
• European Air War -FlightSim
• Flying the unfriendly skies of history - February 26, 1999 - CNN
  

Just some links that didn't fit anywhere else.

• European Air War for Windows (1998) - MobyGames - EAW information.
• The Cool Cam - The Daily WTF (The Cool Cam - Mindsay) -Some background on MPS coders.
• EAW: Patch v1.2: Interview with Chris Coon - CombatSim - Interview with a MicroProse Coder.
• European Air War Game Movie Intro - Vimeo - The original CD movie intro (3D animated)
• Official Patches - Atari FTP - The original MPS patches, v1.1 and v1.2 updaters.
• European Air War Demo 5 Min Trial - Internet Archive - The original demo.
• European Air War Demo 5 Min Trial - CD Action 28a - The demo expanded files.
• European Air War Full Game 30min Trial - Fileplanet - The full game trial version.
• Official EAW User Manual PDF - Atari FTP
• Official EAW User Manual - Internet Archive (In several Formats)
• Official MicroProse EAW FAQ - March 26 1999

These are the forum locations for the EAW community.

• Forum - European Air War - SimHQ - Most active for the current EAW community.
• Forum - European Air War - CombatACE -
• Forum - European Air War - The Gen • (Moggy's Base) -
• Forum - European Air War - 352nd Fighter Group Headquarters -
• Forum - European Air War - COMBATSIM -
• Forum - European Air War - WW2Aircraft -
• Forum - European Air War - EAF Officers Club -

• Chatzy - The EAW Launchpad Warroom - FXEXE EAW Pro communication and help.
   
• Forum Archive : EAW - COMBATSIM.COM
• Forum Archive : EAW - CheckSix
• Forum Archive : EAW - SimHQ Homepage
   
• UseNet – Google Groups - comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim - Very old posts, start 1998 through early 2000's. (search for EAW or European Air War)