How did you get to AH?

[Eagler]

I think I saw a similar thread before, but here goes..

BattleHawks - 1942 (I was hooked!!   )
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
Strike Commander (and some Wing Commander)
Falcon 3.0 - Jets. YUK!!  
Warbirds (>$100 a month, thank goodness for FA)
Fighter Ace (since beta)
Aces High - the best!

It was around 1992 when I first saw Battlehawks, then SWOTL required an upgrade from my 286 with 2 meg of ram, 20 meg hard drive to a 386DX 40 (AMD)& 4 meg of ram - SMOKING!!  

I'm sure I'm not the oldest one...

Eagler

[Dowding]

Hey - what a great topic!    

These are the main ones:

1986 - Harrier Attack on the Amstrad CPC 464     (2D side-scroller on Tape) aged 8 y/o
198? - seem to remember a wire-frame flight sim where you attacked the Bismarck in a Swordfish
1989 - F29 Retaliator, Amiga 500
1991/2 - B17, Amiga
1991/2 - Their Finest Hour, Amiga
1995 - Tornado, Falcon 3.0 PC Pentium 60 MHz
1997 - Warbirds (offline - didn't have the modem or the money), Pentium 166
2000 - Aces High, Pentium III 550 briefly (brother's comp.) now back using the P 166 for AH - works ok as well. 15 FPS takes some getting used to though.

Harrier Attack is still the best    .


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[RAM]

-Spitfire 40 (amstrad CPC)
-ACE (same)
-Top Gun (yes, there was a CPC version  )
-ACE2 (same)
-F16 Combat Pilot
-Gunship (yeppes, an Amstrad)
-Fighter Bomber (amstrad still)
-F15 Strike eagle I (CPC, too)
-Their Finest hour (PC)
-SWOTL
-Jetfighter II
-The Blue Max
-F15 Strike eagle II
-F117
-Pacific Strike (I dont remember the name, I think it was this)
-Pacific Air War
-Gunship2000
-The flight of the Intruder (was this the name?)
-F15 Strike eagle III (call me a Microprose nut    )
-Red Baron
-Fleet Defender
-B17
-Dawn of Aces
-Aces over the Pacific
-Aces over Europe
-Flanker
-Overlord
-EF2000
-Jane's F15
-Red Baron II
-Falcon 4.0
-EAW
-CFS
-AH (THE BEST)
-Flanker 2.0
-MS Flight Simulator 2000.

...and dozens more that I can't recall. I discovered AH just when I was flying a lot EAW and Falcon4, shortly after getting my internet connection.

BTW I Started flying Spitfire 40 when I was 8 years old    


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[RAM]

 

originally posted by Dowding:
198? - seem to remember a wire-frame flight sim where you attacked the Bismarck in a Swordfish

YES!!!! I Remember it!!!!!!!

But the plane IIRC, was supposed to be an Avenger, not a Swordfish (a Strange one...it had TWO engines!!!!    )

CAn't recall the name either but It was FUN!


[edit]In fact...I THINK IT WAS CALLED AVENGER!! [/edit]

LOL!  

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[Dowding]

RAM - yeah - that was it, don't remember if that was the name over here (but I guess you got the same version). You're right, it was a two engined plane.  

I thought the plane was over-modelled though  .

[Fishu]

Can anyone remember such game as 'Wings' for amiga?
World War I 'simulator' with first person fights and then third person ones from above the plane and there you go strafin trains and zig-zagging through flak to bomb target ...
oh dear.. was that fun back then  
All those flak guns, balloons, eindeckers, dreideckers...
That must been in the very late eighties or very begining of nineties..

I also remember game where you were controlling a train and sometimes shooting aircrafts down that were attacking you  

Gosh.. did those games have ugly graphics but so fun  

Though, better than in F-15 or F-19 games  
F-16 falcon 1 and 2.. wow  

One good hit game was BoB, more known as 'Their Finest Hour'

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[kidcol]

1/2. OK, I know I played a monocrome jetfighter game on a PC jr, but can't remember the name. & there was something that ran on a AT with a CGA monitor too.

1. Battle Hawks 1942!!     Man, that's a blast from the past! I remember it used to roll in like 30 degree increments on my 286, hehe.

2.Red Baron. Loved it, but for some reason would always get separated from flight & end up flying NW forever along the front waiting for the mission to end.

3.Aces over Europe/Pacific. Great games, tons of fun.

4. Jetfighter 2 (& 3 a little). Piss poor graphics, but landing was quite tough. After awhile I tried to limit myself to gun kills only, just to keep interest up  

5. The whole Wing Commander series (ok, I'm a geek)

6. Fighter Ops (AOL) My first excursion into OL sims, hooked right away. Don't think a team of highly skilled surgeons could remove the triple barb from my lip.

7. Warbirds. FO just about bankrupted me ($2/hr tacked onto AOL bill, ouch) so migrated to WB so I could continue on with _+NightStalkers=-. Was logical next step anyway.

8. AH. WB almost hoovered my wallet as per FO & had some pressing other commitments that kept me from flying anyway, so I gave AH a try. Still intend to re-up my WB acct., but I can't see closing my AH one, this is just an outstanding game  

BTW, anybody ever try "AIRPOWER" & note the resemblance Crimson Skies has to this old game?

- kidcol2 -
-=NightStalkers=-

p.s. Please don't tell me that I'm the only one here that thinks there is hardly any better smell than that slightly ozone, plastic scent that comes wafting out of a box containg a new computer  

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[grizz]

-1984 Chuck Yeager's Combat Flight Sim (Commodore 64)  

I think that is what it was called...Chuck Yeager's somethingorother..I still have it some where in a box...got me hooked on flight sims. (anyone want to buy a vic20 or C-64?)  

-1996 Fighter Ops
-1996 Warbirds
-2000 Aces High

Between '84 and '96..didn't have a computer but I spent thousands of dollars on any and all arcade flight sims I could find...wish I had spent that money on a computer!!    

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[kidcol]

Griz, NOT buying a new computer between 84 & 96 may be the best decision you could make   Otherwise you'd have a basement full of the "latest & greatest" like I do. Although you would have an extensive knowledge of (now almost useless) DOS commands & know just how to make a "startup diskette" to defeat all the memory hog early-windows stuff. Ech!

- kidcol2 - <- can still write a mean DOS batch file  

[minus]

heh
 around 1984 before or later dont remember axactly got a Sinclair ZX81 or what a hell was that 64x64 sprit graphic B/W
and it got some realy primitive flight sim on tape
aftr a Spectrum after a atari and amiga just for the Falcon  when Pc show up i droped from amiga to  the 386
many Microprose  Flight sims begin show up
after Wb fanatize me and finished in AH , but be careful  HTC if a Flight Sim nutz like me begin geting bored that is not god  
actualy all my life HATE Nonstop Furbals
THEY REMIND ME A SHOT EM UP !!!!!
and not a sim  , just back from a 10 days  sea sailing  

[SOB]

In cronological order, can't remember dates...

-Barnstorming   Atari
-F19 Stealth Fighter IBM PC XT
-F15 Strike Eagle IBM PC XT
-F/A 18 Hornet Amiga
-Falcon ?.? by S/H- played networked with dad who spent HOURS getting it set up for network play
-Welcome to Chuck Yeager's Air Combat!
-Falcon 3.0
-US Navy Fighters
-Flight Unlimited
-Warbirds
-Aces High

That darned HT ruined me for boxed sims!


SOB

[Karnak]

In chronological order including computer system:

Spitfire! (Spitfire 40?) by ? (Atari 520 STfm)
Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain by LucasFilm Games (Atari 1040 STe)
B-17 by Microprose (Atari 1040 STe)
?Knights of the Sky? by Microprose (Atari 1040 STe)
Aces Over Europe by Dynamix (Intel 486/66 running MS-DOS 6.22) Most overmodeled Spitfires ever.
Pacific Air War by Microprose (Intel Pentium 100 running Windows 95a)
Warbirds 2.05 - 2.? by IEN (AMD K6 233 running Windows 95a) ID: karnak  This is the game where I got my ID.
Su-27 1.5 by SSI (AMD K6 233 running Windows 95a)
European Air War by Microprose (AMD K6-2 350 running Windows 98)
Falcon 4.0 by Microprose (AMD K6-2 350 running Windows 98)
Red Baron II 3D by Dynamix (AMD K6-III 450 running Windows 98SE)
Aces High 1.02 - Present by HiTech Creations (AMD Athlon 700 running Windows 98SE)

Sisu
-Karnak

[Dowding]

Fishu - Wings! I remember that! I've got an amiga emulator with that runs that game if you want it! I played it for a while and still have it.

Karnak - I remember Knights of the Sky, I think - WW1 sim, no?

[Maverick]

I played some other early games.

Battle of Britain
Secret Weapons of The Luftwaffe (SWOTL)
Jet Fighter 1, 2
F16 Combat emulator- pretty doggy game
AW (Genie and Kesmai) a little bit of AW3
Red Baron 1 and 2
almost all the Wing Commander series
Several helicopter sims (Comanche)
The aces series
And numerous others I can't even recall.

I remember playing a space sim on an old atari computer. Not the video game type, it was a small 64k computer with keyboard.

Mav

[Fatty]

Played first MS Flight Sim in the 80s, thought it was awesome.  Tried a few here and there late 80s into 90s (jet sims, etc) but none seemed to have the freshness to overcome CPU/graphics shortcomings.

Played AW3 some in mid 90s on AOL (pre-unlimited pricing, probably what kept me from getting too into it), then drifted for a bit.

Last Nov started talking with Gordo about how by now they should have come up with a decent flight sim and we ought to look around.  Tried everything, AW3 (seemed same as I'd remembered from 94, or 95, or whenever it was), warbirds, MS's thing.  Had given up, when he made me try Aces High beta.  Didn't want to, had had enough, but finally gave it a try.  When it took me 8 planes to get off the runway, I was hooked