Many people who played AOD for DOS found it superior to CAOD, which was optimized for Windows 3.0. When I bought my first 386-SX45 Windows machine I also got CAOD but found it buggy and with a number of negative issues not found in the earlier game. Sadly I cannot recall specifics but they were significant enough at the time. The differences were subtle but certainly enough for me to ditch that version of the game completely when it was still new and keep the older, DOS version.
AOD had been left unplayed for years as technology advanced until I discovered DOSBox and now it is still my go-to subsim for the Atlantic although I have no less than five SH3 supermods installed.
The AOD that I use today is my original, installed from 3 1/2" floppies onto that 386 computer and copied onto a CD using that machine and religiously transferred onto every subsequent computer that I have owned. Also still have the AOD game box, manuals, quick-reference guide and map but the disks are gone.
At 27-years of age, the computing equivalent of several epochs, I'm inclined to cut the game some slack in its modelling and features, so while I read your necro-posts, cannot say that I tend to find them particularly useful.
-C
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