Author Topic: What was your first PC WW2 flight sim? (Read 972 times)

Cherlie · « **on:** April 23, 2002, 05:12:15 AM »

Mine was on the C64 (goes back a long time and it was always better than Amstrad) and it was the battle of britian, gosh that game was so much fun

then after years of lonliness, I found Aces over Europe. I still play it to this day

CharlieB

gofaster · « **Reply #1 on:** April 23, 2002, 08:05:01 AM »

"Chuck Yeager's Air Combat" on an AST 486DX2-66 w/ 16Mb of RAM, Windows 3.1 machine, played in DOS mode, using the CH Products Flightstick (only 2 buttons -what was I thinking?). Gave the machine to my brother last year, but still have the game in my cd-library and the joystick in the garage as an emegency backup in case my CH Combatstick dies (which it hasn't after 3 years of front-line combat tours

). Nobody has yet duplicated that sim - combined WW2, Korea, and Vietnam all in one game!

My first dedicated jet sim was F-117A by Microprose, followed by USNF by Electronic Arts, all played on that same AST desktop PC with the CH Flightstick. I didn't upgrade machines and joysticks until I got into Air Warrior on AOL in 1996.

hblair · « **Reply #2 on:** April 23, 2002, 08:07:23 AM »

Warbirds...

samu1 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 23, 2002, 08:15:56 AM »

Started off with AW 1.5 on cd (still have it) and then moved on to AW4W on Compuserve when I got hooked up to the net. Stuck with AW until AH beta came out, been here ever since.

Eagler · « **Reply #4 on:** April 23, 2002, 08:20:10 AM »

BattleHawks 1942

then SWOTL made me upgrade my 286 with 2 mb of ram and a compressed 20mb hard drive into a screaming 386!

Don · « **Reply #5 on:** April 23, 2002, 08:20:14 AM »

AW 1.20 offline; AW4W; AW2 = all on a Compaq 100Mhz P-1; AW3; AH closed beta = on a P-II 300 Mhz; AH= on a P-III 933 Mhz Dell PC.

Wanker · « **Reply #6 on:** April 23, 2002, 08:27:51 AM »

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe (SWOTL)

Puck · « **Reply #7 on:** April 23, 2002, 08:33:56 AM »

Do Mac's count? First sim was A2FS1, first combat sim was Falcon 1 on the Mac 128 (which was amazing when I put it on a Mac Plus; it didn't have CPU throttling, so I could go from engine off on the runway to 70,000 feet in less than five seconds). First online flight sim was AW, which lasted about thirty seconds. First online flight sime I played was WB. I've got about 15 flight sims right now, but I avoid all the WWII-era ones exept AH so I don't screw up what little I know about flying in the main.

Hajo · « **Reply #8 on:** April 23, 2002, 08:37:48 AM »

First flight sim on old 8086 was Their Finest Hour. Battle of Britain flight sim. LOL when aircraft banked they looked more like Sea Gulls (wings bent) then aircraft. Then........graduated to Aces of The Pacific. First night flying sim I can remember. Huge improvement in graphics alone between those two flight sims.

keyapaha · « **Reply #9 on:** April 23, 2002, 08:40:29 AM »

this one

TheOxman · « **Reply #10 on:** April 23, 2002, 08:45:47 AM »

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Originally posted by gofaster
"Chuck Yeager's Air Combat" on an AST 486DX2-66 w/ 16Mb of RAM, Windows 3.1 machine, played in DOS mode, using the CH Products Flightstick (only 2 buttons -what was I thinking?). Gave the machine to my brother last year, but still have the game in my cd-library and the joystick in the garage as an emegency backup in case my CH Combatstick dies (which it hasn't after 3 years of front-line combat tours ). Nobody has yet duplicated that sim - combined WW2, Korea, and Vietnam all in one game!

My first dedicated jet sim was F-117A by Microprose, followed by USNF by Electronic Arts, all played on that same AST desktop PC with the CH Flightstick. I didn't upgrade machines and joysticks until I got into Air Warrior on AOL in 1996.

That my story also. Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. "It's a great day for flying!" Aces of the Pacific was then next one after F-117A. I spend most of the time in high school drafting classes playing F-117A. One day a Sub-Teacher caught me a my buddy playin'. The sub looked at me and said. "You need to get alt. then dive on the target, not fly map of the earth." I was stunned. But that's when i really learned how to dive bomb.

8ball · « **Reply #11 on:** April 23, 2002, 09:14:01 AM »

My first flight sim was Corncob Deluxe on my good ole 25MHz, 5MB of system memory Tandy. Obvisously, this was a DOS game.

narsus · « **Reply #12 on:** April 23, 2002, 09:15:51 AM »

Aces of the Pacific.

JimBear · « **Reply #13 on:** April 23, 2002, 09:21:13 AM »

"Their Finest Hour"

On an Amiga 500, screaming along at 7mhz

Animal · « **Reply #14 on:** April 23, 2002, 09:29:37 AM »

Fighter Duel, on DOS.
Pentium 90, 8mb EDO-RAM.

Lighting fast, baby...