Desastersoft website down?:How to Update Fliegerasse Wick vs Dundas?

[MichaelN]

Hello,

i have a little problem, atleast i think it is...

A friend of me wants to give me his old Fliegerasse DVDs("Wick vs Dundas" and "Galland"),but,according to this thread in another forum(    https://theairtacticalassaultgroup.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25488   ), i need to update  a hotfix for "Wick vs Dundas" and "Channel Battles",atleast that´s what i understand.

The problem is,i only get an error 404 message when i try to open desastersoft.com. Making it impossible for me to install the Hotfix,or get my hands on Channel battles.

I hope someone here can help me,for example with an alternative source for the things above,or simply by telling me that i don´t need them at all to get both "Wick vs Dundas" and "Galland " running.

I also intend to get CLOD Blitz from Steam,since my old DVD is lost


Yours sincerely
Michael

[Buzzsaw]

Unless you actually own these Desastersoft products I am not sure we can help you.

 

We cannot encourage the use of the software without ownership.

 

There is a thread on this forum which details converting those programs to CoD-Blitz:

 

 

[MichaelN]

Thanks a lot.

Decided to get Blitz yesterday, instead of at the end of the month
I will try the Campaign Conversion once the Fliegerasse DVDs arrrived.
 

It should make no problems with steam and the add-ons being registered on another account;he never used them...still sealed and all...He started playing Warthunder and the good old IL2 1946 shortly before he got the DVDs for his birthday..from me -.-

I will make sure to inform you how everything went

 

[Eisenfaustus]

Did it work properly? Started to look for Desastersoft campaigns on ebay ect...

[Sokol1]

On 12/6/2018 at 4:14 PM, MichaelN said:

The problem is,i only get an error 404 message when i try to open desastersoft.com. Making it impossible for me to install the Hotfix,or get my hands on Channel battles.

 

I find a "desastersoft-fix.rar" (501kb) there - time ago I have download one of their campaigns demo, maybe is what is need.

If don't find another solution and want try this, send a PM.

Edited January 31, 2019 by Sokol1

[Veteran66]

Yes i was a part of Desastersoft, i make some Campagnes, but i have not longer contact to the old Team.

[Nevsky76]

Hello all, has someone the desastersoft-fix.rar (back then had to be downloaded as update)? I have Channel Battles DVD (ownership!), applied the DS fix and now am stuck as downloader cannot contact the Desastersoft website as it is offline). 

Can someone provide this rar-file? Thanks in advance.

[Brizzly]

I'm in the same boat.  Unfortunately, unless someone had the wherewithal to save those campaign files separately (unlikely, since it updated the install directly), we're probably out of luck.  I guess the good thing is, since Desastersoft doesn't support this anymore, we have no idea what those updates fixed.  So, if you don't find a bug when you play, then it just works.

[LLv34_Flanker]

S! 

 

I also have all of the Desastersoft campaigns, one with Walther Schuck's signature etc. Would be nice to install and play them. 

[Sokol1]

On 12/18/2022 at 10:36 AM, Nevsky76 said:

Hello all, has someone the desastersoft-fix.rar (back then had to be downloaded as update)?

 

I have a file with this name, once downloaded  Desastersoft campaign Demo.

No idea what do or how install, seems a dababase file.

 

 

Desastersoft_fix.zip

[Brizzly]

That file seems to fix it, at least Fighter Aces Galland, and Channel Battles, which is all I have.  I ran both installers, which actually created a vanilla IL2 CLOD folder in my Steamapps\Common directory.  I then copied the files over to the Blitz build, and applied the fix.  I was having issues with it crashing, so I did a repair, and re-applied the fix, and now all is working.