How did you get started in Aces High?

[jetb123]

I was bored one day. Me and my sister fighting over the channel turner. and boom ah commercial was on wings. I stoped looked wrote down site. downloading for 6 hours. And played offline for about 1 week. Havign so much fun. So i came back to the site and saw that you can go online. I  met some cool guys and started flying 24/7:) . Then after 2 months my computer got tooken back. Not enough money to pay for it. I thought my life was over. So I stayed in depression for 2 months having lonley nights staying up watching wings. Then one once my mom got money. We ordred my dell for 500$. I was so happy thought I had the best computer in the world. To find it it was a deadbeat:o . But i still thank my mom for buying it. So i played for another 4 months. Then bamm ah2 comes out another 2 months from ah. Now I am back to watching wings late night and on the board. and workign for computer money. cant wait till I finnaly get back to ah in a week.

[BlueJ1]

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[jetb123]

Originally posted by BlueJ1
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[Redd]

Originally posted by Kweassa


 


 Among them were three veterans Raomi/Raaf, Feed, Taillight. I'm not sure if anybody nowadays remembers these guys, but they were one of the most excellent game pilots in my country, and was a pretty well-known figure in their WB days.


 

I remember a couple of those guys from WB  Kweassa, good pilots, think it was rraf  though not raaf, if it was rraf he was a very good hog pilot.

I had a squaddie from your country for a while  back in those days, young guy , worked for one of the car manufacturers, can't remember his callsign , was a long time ago, back in WB beta I think..

[elc7367b]

Same as SEgunner here.  I am an avid watcher of Discovery Wings Channel.  Saw a commercial and liked the idea.  I had a slow dial up modem for the longest time and never gave it a thought figuring It wouldnt work.  When I got cable modem I started and have not regretted it yet.


Muttman

[Purzel]

Wow, interesting stories here

I myself was somehow hooked to airplanes at the age of 3. My father held a private pilots license and about since that time I wanted to fly. Little boys and airplanes mix, I tell you! Planes were the greates thing on earth from that point on. Girls made that state pause, you know
When the commodore 64 came around in the various households in the neighbourhood at sometime I saw the game called ACE. WOW! You actually got to sit in the cockpit of a plane and you could shoot at others. With refuelling and everything ACE 2 was my favourite, I only had problems finding other children to play with me this stuff for a few hours straight.. Oh well
Unfortunately my father died in a car accident when I was 6, so somehow my connection to the RL flying dropped off at about that time. So I was sticking to everything flyable on Computers. Along with that came my general interest of computers and how they work. It stayed this way (offline) until about 96 or so (not sure). In Germany it took some time for the internet to be accessible for the general household. So then I bought a modem and got an internet account. Somehow I didnt try at first the online flightsim stuff (many boxed FSims had a MP option) but at first sticked to FPS and stuff. Then,  I went to a Uni to study informatics (computer science, software engeneering), where I and a friend got an, well, not completely legal way of access to the uni-net. At some time I tried EAW online but had connection problems. Then (maybe 99 or 00) I saw something about Aces High and downloaded it and tried it and wanted to try it online, since there was a 2 week free trial. As I didnt want to spend my money on the first available game, I tried Fighter Ace and WB too. Went back to AH quick. Created an account and never looked back.

When I was done with my degree I went to look for a job and eventually found one. You remember, since when I was 3 (about 77) I wanted to fly airplanes, and I had to wait. That waiting got me to the computer-airplane-combination.

Wait till nowthat is. Now I earned some money to get a private pilots license by myself, which I got about 4 weeks ago. You know, it aint cheap, but I wouldnt buy a car just to wait any longer for beeing able to fly

Actually the early introduction to airplanes had a very deep impact on my life, since I got to my interest in computers (my job) this way. I dont know why I never joined a flying club while in school, you can get to fly gliders very early and cheap. Really not sure, maybe because (I thought ) I knew that airplanes are VERY expensive. You know in Germany its quite more expensive than it is e.g. in the US. Yes, even more.

Ok, so thats how it actually startet everything that lead to Aces High for me.

Juast to add my story

[opus]

Its a long story involving too much booze, a shattered patella, and about 4 months of being in a cast in front of a computer.

[JimBear]

Heard about it thru the web grapevine and read the AH UBB Alpha tester reports. Watched the calendar and cranked it up that first evening of open beta. Fun days.

[brendo]

When HTC was started after splitting off from WB, I didnt come over permanantly to AH.

In about 2000-2001, the designers of what became WBIII insisted on an aileron responce like flying with rubber band bunjee cords. It just wasnt right.

I couldnt fly something that felt noting like reality.

WBIII destroyed the Warbirds Online community and I am still sore about it 3 years later.

We still have Warbirds conventions, although every sim in flown including AH, TR, WWIIOL, IL2FB


Ive had an account on and off in AH since Day 1 went live.
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[FDutchmn]

Originally posted by Arlo
Shirt ... and hat ... somewhere. Probably filthy.

hey... I still have the key holder they gave me... actually my daughter has it... somewhere...

[Flossy]

I have a few Gamestorm items most of which I won at one of our UK Conventions.  I have a t-shirt, cap, keyring (which I still use daily!) and a small toolset which I also use frequently.  

[storch]

I was recovering at home after partially amputating my right thumb and I was bored to tears.  My son in law gave me a puter and set up the game for me. I had to go out and buy the controllers and peds.

[twitchy]

My Dad and some friends of his were with a squad called Black Roses led by ddawg (ddawg died recently if any of you guys knew him) old AW crowd and I never paid the game much attention, but years later, one day I was visting and he said come here and check this game out. I watched as he flew a P51 and started strafing a PT Boat, I was pretty unimpressed until all of a sudden the game beeped and somebody on vox was asking if there was a PT boat there, and I thought, damn you can talk... and next thing I knew I was downlaoding AH and playing it at home. That was about four years ago, been playing ever since.

[daddog]

JB73, what a great thread. Really enjoyed reading your background to this sim.

Been reading the first page for 20 minutes. Have to get back to work. Many papers to grade.
Morpheus, eagl, murdr, octavius, nopoop, jay1988... all fun reads. I will read page 2 later and if I have time bore you all with my story. I know all my squadies are tired of hearing it.

[Frodo]

Originally posted by Redd
I remember a couple of those guys from WB  Kweassa, good pilots, think it was rraf  though not raaf, if it was rraf he was a very good hog pilot.

I had a squaddie from your country for a while  back in those days, young guy , worked for one of the car manufacturers, can't remember his callsign , was a long time ago, back in WB beta I think..

I think he means rraf also. He was a Korean MP who worked with guard dogs. He was a squadmate with me in The Red Falcons, in the early days of W/B. Great stick, and rraf stands for Royal Raomi Air Force.

Redd would that be Deft that you are thinking about? Deft got me hooked on W/B in the fall of 1995 when we worked together at Chrysler. Haven't looked back since.  Been here in A/H since beta.

Frodo