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Offline straffo

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« Reply #30 on: November 14, 2001, 08:40:00 AM »
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My first multiplayer combat flight sim was a game called Ace of Aces.  Instead of computers, both players had a book.

It was great !!

And I was quite younger  :D
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« Reply #31 on: November 14, 2001, 09:17:00 AM »
couple of months paying way too much being a target drone in WB

stumbled across Fighter Ace I, then FAII

now AH - still a target drone, just doesn't cost as much  :)
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« Reply #32 on: November 14, 2001, 09:18:00 AM »
er AH since beta thats it.
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« Reply #33 on: November 14, 2001, 09:22:00 AM »
1991 SWOTL

1992 AW Dos on Genie (5545)

1993 or 94 Switched ISP to cris (775) cause it was $1.50 an hour as opposed to the then current Genie price of $3 an hour.

Stayed with AW in it's various venues till March of this year when EA canned th volunteer staff. (Buzz, AWARBuzz and at least 50 shades handles)

When they canned  Moggy and GE I closed my account.

Came here in March and I be a happy camper.

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« Reply #34 on: November 14, 2001, 09:38:00 AM »
AW for DOS on GEnie....

AW for DOS on Cris/CRC (Concentric Research Corporation ?)...(2279, if I remember right)

Downloaded a "new" project by someone (can't recall his name) called Confirmed Kill which had canal/river systems remarkably similar to what I saw in AH's first beta maps ;-)

AH since open beta

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Offline blutic

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« Reply #35 on: November 14, 2001, 09:56:00 AM »
Tried WB didn't like it much.
Flying Circus was a blast! (Any Wild Geese around?)
Tried AH, I don't think there is anything better.

Blutik

 
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« Reply #36 on: November 14, 2001, 10:05:00 AM »
AH is my first online flight sim, tho not my first MMOG, I played UO for several years.

I had Aces of the Pacific and Aces over Europe as boxed sims.  So I was a complete newbie when I started flying in April.   :)
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« Reply #37 on: November 14, 2001, 10:27:00 AM »
microprose stealth fither  commondore 64 (1986/87) first flight sim hehe -> digitals f16 on amiga followed ->  pc playing SWOTL (ww2sim)->tornado -> eurofiter 2000.
that is the one i remember.
online started CFS 1 freeplay in the zone then EAW -> (some falconf16) -> FA -> AH and stuck here now cant find any place better.
Tried ww2online just cant get that game running properly, and now its collection dust already (even uninstalled from hd)

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« Reply #38 on: November 14, 2001, 10:36:00 AM »
Born and raised in the AH community.  Had a dab of AW from aol.. i only had a mouse at the time   :D

Started AH since Tour 1 or 2 and here ever since!

oct out!

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« Reply #39 on: November 14, 2001, 10:57:00 AM »
started simming in 1983, you name it I tried it.

started online sims in 1996 with Air warrior up until last month

I Was a war bird beta tester for 3 years because one of my squaddies harrased,
(name with held to protect the inocent <G> ) Skip Stealy. They purged the database a couple of years back and I lost that gig  :)

Flew the AH beta and have signed up 3 times after major patches but didnt stick with it until AW died a horrible EA death !
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« Reply #40 on: November 14, 2001, 11:02:00 AM »
Came from WB ver 1.0x, played that for years (Bring back the days of a $200.00 WB monthly bill).  Quit WB before AH started, but I've been with AH since beta days.
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« Reply #41 on: November 14, 2001, 11:40:00 AM »
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Originally posted by Thorns:
From FA........Fighter Ace.  Now my home is AH.  Everyone came from somewhere...tell us where?  Welcome all newbies    :D

Thorns

Hmmm.  Well, box sims take us back to the old original Flight Simulator, starting 1985 for me.  The LucasArts series after that, interspersed with some of those tedious jet games.  Then along came Airwarrior for Windows, the Win 3.1 version of which was implemented on AOL in October 1996.  I stayed there (in FR, as "Oldma" - I am frequently confused with the RR "Oldmn") for precisely five years, and would probably have stayed for another five years if the game hadn't gone TU.  Now I'm one of the refugees here, trying hard not to open my mouth about anything until I've been around for awhile.

- Oldman
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« Reply #42 on: November 14, 2001, 02:19:00 PM »
AW DOS circa '92 or '93...
$6/hour of GEnie, $700/month VISA bills...

 Moved onto CRIS when AW went to $1.50/hour
 and had alot more $$$ to do other things with...like also keep accounts on Delphi and AOHell.

 Also flew a little in WB's but stayed mostly
 in the AW arenas, especially for scenarios.

 Still have my EA account untilthe day they
 actually pull the plug on ARIES.

 I've had this AH account for several months now. Never felt any need to check out any
other "sims" of "games"...

  ( GEnie tail # 4580, CRIS # 4516, Delphi...I forget )
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« Reply #43 on: November 14, 2001, 07:44:00 PM »
FA 1.5 for me!  I met up with this crazy band of guys and gals call the Musketeers and been with them ever since.  I'm really quite surprised cause do to the fact that FA 1.5 and AH is all I've been a part from I assumed most people in here came from FA.  Guess not.  It's a great group of people in here...I've had a blast this last year or so!

Higgins_Mskt   :)
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« Reply #44 on: November 15, 2001, 06:26:00 PM »
First flight sim (if you can call it that) I ever flew was an old Nintendo game back when ninetendo first came out. It was a stealth fighter game from back when they thought the stealth fighter was called the F-19. I played it at a friends house and was hooked on flight sims forever. Then  Top Gun, the same wire frame one the others were talking about.

First flight sim I owned was the old Battle of Britain.  After that as near as I can remember the progression includes:
Falcon AT
Jetfighter 2
Secret weapons of the Luftwaffe
Aces of the Pacific
F-117 2.0
F-15E III
Comanche MO
Falcon 3.0
Combat Air Patrol
Red Baron
2 civilian flight sims and 1 WW1 sim that I cant remember the names of right now
Flight Unlimited II
Hind
Comanche 3
Janes Fighters Anthology
Janes Fighter Legends
Janes F-15
Janes Longbow II
Janes USAF
Falcon 4.0
Luftwaffe Commander
Red Baron 3d
European Air War
Microsoft Flight Sim 2000
Mig Alley
In addition, I also have played at least a dozen other major sims at other peoples houses or as demos.

After playing all these boxed single player sims since I was in grade school I finally got the chance to play an online sim in college back in 1997.  It was the F-22 Raptor demo that Novalogic allowed multiplayer access to online.  That hooked me on multiplayer style flight sims.  The one that I originally owned was Fighters Anthology.  I played that one to death but it was hard to find people to play against there at college and I never could get the Janes site to work right in the lab computers. I tried Air Warrior III and Warbirds during this time period but they barely worked on the lab computers except offline which isnt much fun in either of those.  After I graduated from college and got cable modem I wanted to get more involved in playing flight sims online.  I tried playing EAW in the gaming zone but there was hardly ever anybody there.  Then one day I read a glowing review on combatsim.com about AH.  I came over in June I think it was, to check it out, and signed up for the free trial period.  I loved it from the first flight.  However, the 30 dollars a month initially kept me away.  After the price dropped, I signed up immediately.  I have to say that I was so addicted that I probably would have signed up eventually, even if price had remained the same.  From my slight experience with Warbirds and Air Warrior (a few flights online only in each)I can say this is 100% superior.  I have been playing AH for about 3 months now I think it is not counting the trial period and I love it more all the time.

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