You now have three files extracted: README.1ST (this file) AOENEW1.ZIP AOENEW2.ZIP AOENEW1.ZIP was first contributed on November 20th 1994 as NEWAOE.ZIP and updateted one day later. The patches within this file will replace 4 planes in the original AOE (Mosquito 18, B-25, B-26, B-24) with Focke-Wulf TA-152, J7W Shinden, F7F Tigercat and B-29. The B-29 is not flyable, the other aircrafts are. Texts within AOE will become German. To prevent this you should NOT use the STR_POOL.DAT file which comes with the patch. AOENEW2.ZIP was contributed on November 27th as NEWAOE2.ZIP. What I didn't know was that Compuserve cut off the '2' and named it AOENEW.ZIP. Therefore the original patch AOENEW.ZIP was lost. AOENEW2.ZIP adds new planes to AOE, but there are some bugs in the patch. Therefore the player should have the possibility to use AOENEW1.ZIP as an alternative if he doesn't want to accept theses bugs (known bugs are listed in the README.1ST file from AOENEW2.ZIP). Have fun! Uwe Serf