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Offline AWRaid

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« Reply #30 on: March 15, 2006, 12:28:59 PM »
^

I played with no cockpit art even when they added it.
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« Reply #31 on: March 15, 2006, 12:51:26 PM »
Now imagine that screenshot in black&white - not greyscale - dithered black and white. That's what the Mac version was like for a number of years. Oh, and 30 frames per hour too.

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« Reply #32 on: March 15, 2006, 01:00:28 PM »
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« Reply #33 on: March 15, 2006, 03:47:27 PM »
I played with just a gunsight after erasing all art....till they found out and stopped it  :)

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« Reply #34 on: March 15, 2006, 04:07:25 PM »
Yeah, the old ghost art. As I recall it took a couple iterations to fix that. For a while you could have outlines and their pattern checking wouldn't look to see if the regions were filled or not.

I used to have a custom B17 cockpit file with a skip-bombing sight:



And of course the classic F/A-26B cockpit:


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« Reply #35 on: March 15, 2006, 06:16:18 PM »
Haha, OK, now THAT's more like I had envisioned, lol. Any time some one complains around here , y'all should whip out these pics, WITH the price superimposed, lol.

That's something man, .
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« Reply #36 on: March 15, 2006, 06:24:10 PM »
$6.

Per.

Hour.



Gee-zuz.

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« Reply #37 on: March 16, 2006, 01:10:46 AM »
DoK, I think you were paying $10/hour (or maybe $12) at the start.  $6/hour was first big price reduction, wasn't it?

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« Reply #38 on: March 16, 2006, 02:47:30 AM »
$12 was prime time. It was $5 at first, then hiked to $6.

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« Reply #39 on: March 16, 2006, 11:24:14 AM »
EEEEGADDDD!!

That took dedication, yikes that's expensive.
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« Reply #40 on: March 16, 2006, 12:16:34 PM »
Plus for many of us back then there were also long distance phone charges. $1000/month combined was not that uncommon.

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« Reply #41 on: March 16, 2006, 01:39:31 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by DoKGonZo
Plus for many of us back then there were also long distance phone charges. $1000/month combined was not that uncommon.


I think I topped out at around $700/month on GEnie.
Back then it was pretty easy to rack up 100 hours a month flying and
with the small arena size you got a heck of a lot more engagements in
for your $$ as well :)

I gave a sigh of relief when CRIS was added and the price dropped to $3/hour:)

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« Reply #42 on: March 16, 2006, 02:53:41 PM »
Good thing about 6 - 12 dollars an hour, there wasn't many alt monkies:P
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