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Offline Puck

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« Reply #15 on: May 25, 2007, 12:54:00 PM »
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I remember playing the first Falcon on the Mac128.  When we tried to run it on a MacII we went from on the end of the runway, engine off, to 70,000' in less than 15 seconds.

They learned how to throttle execution shortly thereafter.
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« Reply #16 on: May 25, 2007, 01:09:50 PM »
OMG! I remember that game. :cool:

One of the first flight sims I played on the 286 I built. Had a Apple IIE before that. Man I thought that hot stuff back then. :rofl

And people powerwhine about computer games today. Jeez...  If they only knew.

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« Reply #17 on: May 25, 2007, 01:55:04 PM »
I wish to heck someone would make another TFH, Aces Series or Red Baron now.

At least the AI in those would engage...........
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« Reply #18 on: May 25, 2007, 02:13:12 PM »
God, the AI in Red Baron...

I would have these outrageously long fights with Verner Voss.  He was my exact equal.  The fights would end 33% in my death, 33% in his, and 33% with a mid-air that killed us both.

I remember being called out for a duel with Mick Mannock, who hated Germans with a passion.  The cheater showed up with 2 wingmen.  The force was strong with me that day.  I took him out in one pass, and the wingmen with high deflection shots at extreme range.

Then there were the fights where I'd have to duck into the cloud to run for my lines, and try to get my plane on the ground before I died from wounds.

Damn, what a fine game that was.
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« Reply #19 on: May 25, 2007, 02:22:37 PM »
One thing I loved about Red Baron was that it was the first game I ever saw where you could cusomize the skin on your plane. As limited as it was, I thought that was a very cool addition. I enjoyed the campaigns on all the Dynamix games, RE, AOTP, and AOE. Really great games in their time.
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« Reply #20 on: May 25, 2007, 02:25:41 PM »
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My first computer was a rock.  
If you posititioned it just right you could come sort of close to telling what time it was by its' shadow.
 It played a couple of  games, " Boink your neighbor on the head with a rock." and "Stealth Vandal".  Stealth Vandal was really challenging.  You had to throw a rock through various windows which was relatively easy but then you had to go into the structure and retrieve your rock because it was the only one you had!   Mad home and business owners would shoot at you and then there were the police chases... oh the high drama of the early pc.


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Man, Aces over Europe... my first pc game. I was just a little squeaker back then.
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« Reply #21 on: May 25, 2007, 02:30:34 PM »
I loved the dynamic campaigns in RB. No static missions, no "you have to win this one first before getting the next one" as if it were some lousy FPS or jump&run.
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« Reply #22 on: May 25, 2007, 02:51:15 PM »
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Man, Aces over Europe... my first pc game. I was just a little squeaker back then.

Yea, now you're a big squeaker.. :cool:
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« Reply #23 on: May 25, 2007, 03:11:49 PM »
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OMG! I remember that game. :cool:

One of the first flight sims I played on the 286 I built. Had a Apple IIE before that. Man I thought that hot stuff back then. :rofl

And people powerwhine about computer games today. Jeez...  If they only knew.

Later,
KayBay


Should not you be signing as SEkaybay???:O
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« Reply #24 on: May 25, 2007, 03:42:35 PM »
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I so remember.  Had SWOTL also.  It wasn't until AH modeled the JU87 that I realised you really couldn't hold your own with that plane.  It was really just a bomber/attack plane.  The concept of 2 x 7.7s really hits home.

I killed so many spitfires in that plane with my bomb load.
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« Reply #25 on: May 25, 2007, 05:01:39 PM »
I used to love Stealth Fighter and Gunship on my Commodore 64. I would get up 3-4 hours before work just to play,lol( Sorta like some of you guys do now in AH).
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« Reply #26 on: May 25, 2007, 05:22:20 PM »
God Rest the old Air Warrior days!!!!

My gunnery stunk back then and they had leading gunsights!!!  LOL

:rofl :rofl :rofl

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« Reply #27 on: May 25, 2007, 07:39:45 PM »
Thanks for the memories....lalalatralala
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« Reply #28 on: May 25, 2007, 07:56:39 PM »
My first computer was a Commodore C-64, with just 64K of memory.  It was amazining what Microprose could do with such a small platform.  I remember a typical game was $30 per throw.  And the precursor of what AOL became was "Quantum Link" for the Commodore and Amiga crowd back in the mid-1980's.  It was dialup, and downloads took forever.

I never did Air Warrior online, but I did all the early PC type flight sims since 1985.  My C64 still works!

What about the flight sims that were just BASIC?


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« Reply #29 on: May 25, 2007, 11:51:01 PM »
Is there any video of SWOTL?

I was wondering if it still looks as good as my memory says it did.
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