Author Topic: Shameless nostaligia post (Read 1875 times)

Shifty · « **Reply #15 on:** September 12, 2006, 03:32:49 PM »

My first teacher was Drum on the old Air Warrior DOS first squad was JG3

332nd outlaw · « **Reply #16 on:** September 12, 2006, 04:04:19 PM »

first flight sim was WB back when it was still a beta where deft propmtly ppointed me to his H2H ladder and VonDoom taught me how to fly the hvy birds and ghosth and i learnd how to knife fight in zeke's.

first online squad was with the mongrels who have put up with me and welcomed me back after every break i have taken from this simulated reallity.

nirvana · « **Reply #17 on:** September 12, 2006, 05:00:40 PM »

First name was Panzer82 summer after 6th grade, 2001 AH1, first squad I can't remember, I left them after a week to fly with Pigs on the Wing. Eventually I got a few more weeks of online play and I returned as Never and Artlaw showed me the ropes after I was incessantly asking question, one of the reasons i'll always have great respect for him, lord knows I was an uber n00b back then. Played H2H for a year or 2 as Nirvana, ran into Reacher15 and Colt44 in an H2H room and joined the Sick Puppies. And that's my story.

Killjoy2 · « **Reply #18 on:** September 13, 2006, 03:33:46 PM »

It all reminds me how important mentoring is in flying. Does memory make the old AH, WB, AW communities seem better or were we a better community back then?

aztec · « **Reply #19 on:** September 13, 2006, 05:20:52 PM »

I started out with Fighter Ops...was a free relaxed realism for WBs for awhile. I had the great fortune of meeting and being taken under the wing of an incredible gentleman who went by the name of Ibex. If you're still out there somewhere old friend thank you so much for answering so many stupid questions and taking the time to be a friend. !

I also made another wonderful friend in FO who went by the name of Ghosth. Thx so much Ghosth for the memories and fun...You're a class act all the way. ~~! Sir. And then on to WBs....... and so many great people and wonderful memories. It's been a fun ride.~~

icemaw · « **Reply #20 on:** September 13, 2006, 06:56:19 PM »

I started flying on a 386 with an rgb minitor. I got a game called f16 fighting falcon it came on like 6 or 7 of them old 5" floppys. I loved that game played it for days on end. I buddy of mine turned me on to AW and flew it off line for a while because gasp the was no internet access in my area of can you imagine Orange County CA. When Internet finally became availible I started online. Man I thought I was the watermelon after flying off line boy did I get a wake up call!! I must have took a week before I got my first kill.
After a couple weeks I was invited to my first squad The Death Birds. Didnt stay with them long. My next squad was the Motley Aces. Great bunch of guys man we had fun too bad the Co Blaster was a scum bag. Started flying in bigpacRR in AW2 looking for a new squad. I found the Marine Air Wing and have been with them ever since.

In my time I have seen many come and go. But the core group of Old School MAW are some of the best freinds I have ever had. I have had the honor of training quite a few. But 2 allways stand out in my mind Slap Shot and MARS01. When ever we went into a fight they were allways there.

-deft- · « **Reply #21 on:** September 19, 2006, 02:20:27 AM »

Awe shucks guys!

Nice to be remembered

Rexx you were a stud P38 Pilot. You'd be shocked to learn that's pretty much all I fly now

I'm still running the WB scorepages for IEN. Aces High could use a little "deft" touch on their scorepages

http://scores.warbirdsiii.com

Wardog · « **Reply #22 on:** September 19, 2006, 02:28:20 AM »

AW-DOS online cost, $600.00 to $700.00 a month. Joined 13th TAS in AW-DOS had good wingies in Ice (Rude) Doom and ya Voss as well.

Though my 1st few months i was in a bomber squad, then jumped to 13th TAS.

Very long time ago.

Dog out.

MrRiplEy[H] · « **Reply #23 on:** September 19, 2006, 03:33:56 AM »

I started out by flying WB 2.7x offline. Then when I felt confident against A.I. I joined the online game only to find out humans are much more unpredictable than A.I.

Which was nice.

I scored 4 kills on my very first relaxed realism online fight.

Once I found out about AH post-beta and tried it out there was no turning back. The FM was so much more challenging (especially with the old-skool E burning monsters) that I couldnt get more than 1 nm away from base before getting shot down. And I could hold my own in WB nicely..

I like challenges and Ive been a subscriber of AH ever since.

ded · « **Reply #24 on:** September 19, 2006, 04:09:58 AM »

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Originally posted by thndregg
Learned on the same game, same copy (bought in '84 or '85), same computer back in the awesome '80's. Flayd is my brother. Our dad still has Sub-Logic's version of Flight Simulator on tape, which took fooooorrrrrrrrreeeevvvvveeerr rrr to load. One side of it, we were flying around Illinois in a Piper Cherokee, the other side was aerial combat against WW1 A.I. (if you wnat to call it that) opponents on a green, flat-grid map with two sides of card-board mountians and a river cut through the middle.

There aren't many screenshots. I had a helluva time finding this one.

IMG]http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/73/fsii20for20c64capitol1sg5.gif[/IMG]

And check out the good read on the box!:D

IMG]http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/4614/115798165500wa2.jpg[/IMG]

I started with that also, on apple //c, then chuck yeagers air combat on a 386... talk about an improvement

Killjoy2 · « **Reply #25 on:** September 19, 2006, 11:56:52 PM »

Hey Deft, Nice to see your still flying. Maybe we can get you into AH one of these days. The Early War Arena has some real possiblities.

I'm so poor with the p38 these days. But the early war is getting my interest.

jon · « **Reply #26 on:** September 20, 2006, 06:29:09 AM »

birdo would take our whole squad in da and teach the squad a new acm then we would ffa for an hour once a week

Sh00ter · « **Reply #27 on:** September 20, 2006, 09:11:24 AM »

AW2 was my start. My brother RINGR got me hooked..then we joined up with ASW and 1CAC a little later.

SIK1 · « **Reply #28 on:** September 20, 2006, 09:23:10 AM »

My first squad was the fighting 56th in AW1, co was Cyclops. Switched to the Az, and the 444th Air Mafia in AW3. 7Lobo, and LPN were the ones that gave me the most help in them early days.

SIK1

BTW · « **Reply #29 on:** September 20, 2006, 09:38:14 AM »

I had the Sublogic game on the Atari. I remember the enemy planes looked like stick crosses and you had to use radar to spot the planes around you (no view keys in those days). I think that was my first try at boom and zoom. You'd climb real high on the south side of the river, the dive down over the river and head on everything

(kinda like MA

)

I remember an older "flight sim" than that one. It was on the Timex/Sinclair z80 computer. It was a white stripe (no color in those days!)that represented a runway and you had to land the plane by tracking a beacon.

I also remember Hitechs first jump into flight sim programming (I think) with his AW gun cam utility. I tried my hand at flight sim programming with the C++ book "Flights of Fantasy." I got the graphics parts down and could rotate objects in 3d space. I didn't even attempt to create a flight model, let alone many realistic flight models. I did use the techniques is some graphics programs to simulate real world paint mediums.

After that, the walk gets blurry. Paint fumes I guess