Recalling the forerunner to aces high

[kavo]

I recall the early game prior to aceshigh ...i dont recall its name. I also recall that the troop planes were either c47 or junkers and you could drop commandos near airbases to do their dirty deeds. You needed two or three commando drops to deal with a large field.
My point is,it was a cool feature that meant the goon and junkers could be used or so much more than it is now. You could drop  commandos with a dot command before release within a set distance of the base. You then left them to it and did other things  until you got a message that they had finished or been killed by an observant enemy.

I liked that...it was fun and brought a further dimension to the game.

It still needs sheep tho !

[zack1234]

And the Brewster withdrawing from the game

[Shuffler]

I was Qwikthink in Fighter Ace.

[Zoney]

What game are we talking about here?

[Wiley]

Sounds like WB to me.  C47 and Ju52.  I remember being able to send your drones to drop troops at other bases.  Last I checked it's still going with almost 20 people on during primetime.

Wiley.

[hitech]

Sounds like WB to me.  C47 and Ju52.  I remember being able to send your drones to drop troops at other bases.  Last I checked it's still going with almost 20 people on during primetime.

Wiley.

I wrote that game over 20 years ago now.

HiTech

[Gman]

I remember the first time I played WB 2.7xx.  I'd flown every box sim game since the B17 on the Intellivision, and thought I'd found heaven, and decided I'd not be leaving my home office ever again, other than to eat/sleep. 

Shortly thereafter, while working on the QA team for a game called Rainbow 6 (the first one), another player heard me extolling the virtues of this Warbirds game, and how incredible it was.  He mentioned that some of the same people who created it had split off and were making an even better variant, and it was in beta, called Aces High.

Mind. Blown.

What screwed with my head the most wasn't how much better AH was than the current WB, in every area, from graphics, to view systems, controls, whatever - it was the tiny size of the download.  I forget exactly how large the client was for the beta then, but it seemed impossible for such a game to come out of such a small sized file.

[Skuzzy]

Version 1.04 Patch 2 was a download of just over 11MB's.

[Vulcan]

I followed HT and Pyro here from Warbirds, played Warbirds from the beta (had that funny name turns out someone else was using and they changed it).

[FLS]

And let's not forget Dawn of Aces.     You could play in 2D if your PC couldn't handle 3D.

[morfiend]

I wrote that game over 20 years ago now.

HiTech

  1 of these days I should send you my WB disc and have you sign it for me!

  It was just too expensive for me to play online,the hourly cost and then the long distance charge on top of the exchange rate and I think it was about 40 bucks an hour!!!


  So I had to settle for offline play,when I first saw AH at 30 bucks a month,I thought it was a steal!!!!


   

[Zacherof]

  1 of these days I should send you my WB disc and have you sign it for me!

  It was just too expensive for me to play online,the hourly cost and then the long distance charge on top of the exchange rate and I think it was about 40 bucks an hour!!!


  So I had to settle for offline play,when I first saw AH at 30 bucks a month,I thought it was a steal!!!!


   

$30 a month dang lol

[715]

I don't think WarBirds ever had an hourly cost?  Did it?  I thought it was monthly?  I know that Air Warrior did: that was $6/hr and I had to pay an extra $6/hr long distance to reach their POP number.

[Brooke]

Hey, Zach, how about $1500/month?  I knew some people in the days of Air Warrior (which charged by the hour) who ran up such bills in today's dollars. 

[Gman]

Zach, the Canadian dollar made that 57 a month until the price dropped.  Compared to previous hourly rates as stated, that was a steal.