Are any of the "old school" guys still around?

[SFRT - Frenchy]

F19 and the first Falcon, the one before Falcon AT.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kCvSyJaYbc

[icepac]

I started on strike eagle and used to play it when I worked at A.O.P.A. as a flight planner in the early to mid 1980s.

Played air warrior as quisp and attended the 1994 con in chantilly, va and I could swear I attended an earlier convention for an online multiplayer sim in crystal city even before that.

Those early conventions were loaded to the gills with people brimming with knowledge on all facets of WWII airplane gunnery and flight as well as having top notch computer skills which was a requirement at that time or you simply could not gain access.

The typical mouse clicker of today who wouldn't know a modem string from a dos command line is what largely populates the sims now and the lack of a broad base of knowledge shows in thier lack of basic strategy and tactics.

Every year or so, I track down a former pilot or two and post a cryptic message to thier blogs or wherever that is  designed to arouse thier curiousity and get them to log in to the game so I can shoot them down.

I got Mburns from the early days of warbirds and Dawn of Aces to show up in the warbirds main arena a while ago (warbirds announced your entering and leaving in the buffer) and quickly made my way over to where he had spawned a ground vehicle but....alas.....he logged before I could get there and deliver pepperidge.

Mburns, Daveed, and Jmuters spent a lot of time fighting head to head in the mid-1990s honing our skills for a planned invasion of the arenas but WB3 was a bit taxing on our machines of the time so it never happened.

I'll try to meet up with Vadr the next time we show up at Kennedy Space Center to do aero testing on the runway...........I think it's vadr who works there.

[-ammo-]

Dang so many old names reactivating my memory.  all. I never thought I'd be flying again. the timing was right, you can all blame Ammo.

Blame/thank - all the same.  Welcome back friend!

[LCADolby]

F19 and the first Falcon, the one before Falcon AT.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kCvSyJaYbc

I had that, twas awesome

[Vulcan]

newbies...



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[Nathan60]

Gotta say back in the day Microprose made the best games F15, F19,M1 Tank Platoon, Gunship, Airborne Ranger, task force 1942.. I had em all.

[K-KEN]

Still flying here since the Open Beta, Aug 1999. Previous was Air Warrior starting 1995 on AOL, joined the Cutthroats in Jan 1996...been in same squad all this time. Many many great memories and many good friends over the years!   

Still hit Scenarios when I can, miss lots of Squad night flights now though...

[Fulcrum]

Since we appear to be taking a trip down memory lane....some of my favs of old:












Man, I miss 'em.....   Those were the days!  Back then a computer gamer was a COMPUTER gamer.  Back when you needed the knowledge and skill to tweek autoexec.bat and config.sys to free up enough conventional memory to load a game (unless you cheated and used QEMM...in which case you should hang your head in shame)!  Back in the days when the only GUI you knew was the nasty stuff that accumulated on your tried and trusty gameport Suncom joystick!!   Back when you paid $50.00 for a game and it came with a manual the size of a small phone book with tons of great stuff in it you could read for days!

*sigh*  The world just seems like a smaller...meaner place now.  

[Sabre]

Loved Aces of the Pacific, but Falcon 3.0 had to be my favorite! By the way, I was "Rojo" back in the Warbirds days (and Airwarrior, before that), flying with a squad called "The Buccaneers". We all signed up for the AH open beta, and made the switch when AH went pay-for-play.  Took a year or two off when I started my music career, but built my dream flight sim rig earlier this year and am now back.  I fly with the "Honeybadgers" now.

[Arlo]

newbies...

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Back in the day when we were just a bit disappointed that the graphics didn't match what was on the box .... but still enjoyed the game. 

[Arlo]

Still flying here since the Open Beta, Aug 1999. Previous was Air Warrior starting 1995 on AOL, joined the Cutthroats in Jan 1996...been in same squad all this time. Many many great memories and many good friends over the years!   

Still hit Scenarios when I can, miss lots of Squad night flights now though...

I was about a day from clicking on the application button for your squadron, back when flying AW, when I discovered VF-17.

It's a pirate/Pacific Navy thing. 

[Brooke]

Aces High today is yesterday's fantastic, unreachable dream.  

[Arlo]

Aces High today is yesterday's fantastic, unreachable dream.  

True!

[MOSQ]

Old School Map:
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=4F7912F19B484B3B!774&authkey=!AKGL_1KAQQ2yxMM&v=3

[Brooke]

Old School Map:
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=4F7912F19B484B3B!774&authkey=!AKGL_1KAQQ2yxMM&v=3

I remember that map.  Air Warrior sectors were 12 miles on side, I think, so our whole world in those days was the same area as a 4.5 sector by 4.5 sector area in Aces High.