1990 Flight Simming (vid)

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by lazs2
yep.. liked red baron then went to aces over the pacific and aces over europe.. then dos AW and then Dos WB and then AH.

Worse thing was the around $3 an hour thing.   Best thing might have been that too tho...  people liked to fight when they paid that kind of money.

lazs

True! Nowadays its "Run away until I get a better position then come back..."

[SFRT - Frenchy]

Not my first, but spent countless hours on that ... chasing pixels I guess, surely remembered more details than that  

[Charon]

Not my first, but spent countless hours on that ... chasing pixels I guess, surely remembered more details than that

I never could get Flight of the Intruder to run worth a damn.

Charon

[Mr No Name]

countless hours on f119sf -  wow the memories!

[Gh0stFT]

nice memories!

for me aircombat started with my Atari 400 & Sublogics Flightsim II World War I scenery.
Dogfighting WW1 airplanes around a small map, even with mountains
and a river, and a refuel-stations with new ammo!
For todyas eyes it looks horrible, but you can trust me, playing this in the
early '80 was fun, it was the same fun we have with todays flightsimms.

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by Golfer
I've been under the impression that dressing up in a flight suit to play computer sims was a dorky thing to do.  I'm sure glad those cool fellows cleared that up for me!

Those folks worked for the Store. They were dressed up to help sell software. I bet it worked too.

-Sik

[Airscrew]

Originally posted by Sikboy
They were dressed up to help sell software. -Sik

Hmmm,  right...

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by Airscrew
Hmmm,  right...

You didn't notice that they all worked at Egghead and that they were having a "Computer Air Show"?

-Sik

[AKIron]

Chuck Yeager AFT was fun for a couple of hours but not much use beyond that. I too spent many hours enjoying Chuck Yeager's Air Combat.

I enjoyed all of the Microprose sims, even Acrojet and a bit later Knights of the Sky. F-15, Gunship and F-119 stole my late youth.  


Here's another I just couldn't stop playing though it was very repetitious.

http://www.remaininplay.com/showgame/Wings/

[Boroda]

F-19, F-15-II and Gunship, then Aces of the Pacific and Aces over Europe.

Why didn't anyone mention Battle Hawks 1942 / Battle of Britain / Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe?

Among jet sims - we played Falcon on XTs in the Uni, head-to-head via null-modem cable, then there was F-22 Retaliator that allowed to play H2H via modem...

I was dreaming about an opportunity to play AoE against human opponents, and then I discovered WarBirds... Some Russian guys flew CK beta, but the connection was absolutely awful back in 1996.

[AKIron]

Originally posted by Boroda
Why didn't anyone mention Battle Hawks 1942 / Battle of Britain / Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe?

All great time wasters. No doubt they will be reincarnated when the next stage of computer evolution engulfs us.

[midnight Target]

Having never flown Warbirds... was that THE Wild Bill?

[Stott]

Yes.that was wild bill who managed to run WB intothe ground. Gilman is working for the CIA for the last few years after Falcon 4.0 released.   State of the art VGA with 33mhz processeor. Imagine what we condiser cutting edge will look like in 25 years.

[wasq]

Originally posted by Boroda
F-19, F-15-II and Gunship, then Aces of the Pacific and Aces over Europe.

Among jet sims - we played Falcon on XTs in the Uni, head-to-head via null-modem cable, then there was F-22 Retaliator that allowed to play H2H via modem...

I think I got my start on the flight simulator path with the F-19. I was about 10 or so old at the time and we set up a "sim pit" with Sasmox and Panzzer with some blankets and other household stuff to make the experience more realistic. We didn't particularly care for the fact that the F-19 was supposed to be single pilot.

I also distictly remember charring the CIA chip (dunno what that is) of an Amiga 500 when we used our home-made cable to connect two Amigas to run Falcon (version 1) head-to-head... We finally managed to get the cable right, but it would have  been cheaper to get the "original" cable.... The H2H experience was good, though. Worth every penny.

I started flying online in 2001, when I had 10mbit connection to the 'net. Unfortunately, about 2 weeks after I found AH, I moved to apartment with no internet..

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Stott
Yes.that was wild bill who managed to run WB intothe ground. Gilman is working for the CIA for the last few years after Falcon 4.0 released.   State of the art VGA with 33mhz processeor. Imagine what we condiser cutting edge will look like in 25 years.

No, "the" wild bill died in 1876,;)