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Offline Saurdaukar

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« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2003, 08:56:49 AM »
First offline experiance:  Enjoying the wonderful raphics of X-Wing while shooting TIE's with my "fart lasers."

First online:  Air Warrior.  Actually got off the ground on my first attempt (RR) but ended up PNG'ing myself for shooting friendly aircraft... they didnt like me for awhile - then I figured out how to use the radio and explained my dilema.  :D
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« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2003, 09:34:16 AM »
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LHX , the tilt-rotor (osprey?) was fun to fly.  It was a pretty advanced game in it's day, you needed a 286 and a CGA video card.   Front windshield would even show a bullet hole and a crack if you got a pilot wound.  Your pilot woulkd go in and out of conciousness and eventually plane would control funny then you would die and crash.  This is way back in the 1980's guys :)

You know somewhere I think I still have that game on a floppy disk somewhere.


LHX, Light Helicopter experimental. I still have it on disk. The game also had the blackhawk and the osprey. Lots of different missions to choose from. But could you kill all the camels and nothing else and rtb?

First flight sim was Microsoft, way old DOS version.
First Helicopter sim was Apache. ( A FF rocket placed in an open door of a Hind will bring it down)
AW dos off line, then AW on AOL, then every flight game I could get my hands on.

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« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2003, 09:39:08 AM »
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1980 on a ibm machine with a tiny jstick. not shure what the name of it was but it was all green vector graphics. was lost that day.

Same here except that I don't remember having the luxury of a JS.  The "game" was the original version of MS Flight Sim.  Frame rate was something like 2.  Flew a 172.
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« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2003, 09:53:59 AM »
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LHX, Light Helicopter experimental. I still have it on disk. The game also had the blackhawk and the osprey. Lots of different missions to choose from. But could you kill all the camels and nothing else and rtb?

First flight sim was Microsoft, way old DOS version.
First Helicopter sim was Apache. ( A FF rocket placed in an open door of a Hind will bring it down)
AW dos off line, then AW on AOL, then every flight game I could get my hands on.

afool


I liked the land and rescue missions.  You would have to shoot (or sneak) your way in and out while dodging SAM and ZSU  tracks and Russian Jets.  You would go to some facility shoot up the defenses then land and pick up prisioners and rtb again.  Was about as fun as any game I ever played actually :)
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« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2003, 10:33:10 AM »
My first flightsim was the SubLogic Flight Simulator on a TRS-80.

My first online flightsim was DOS AW.  I started in the RR arena, and remember thinking, "it seems like slow motion".  I flew one sortie there, then switched to FR.
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« Reply #20 on: January 30, 2003, 12:27:59 PM »
Atari 2600  dogfight.
U could also fly multiple drones and drive a tank and play pong on it.

Very cutting edge stuff....
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« Reply #21 on: January 30, 2003, 12:33:18 PM »
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My first flightsim was the SubLogic Flight Simulator on a TRS-80.

Mine too, but on an Atari 800XL.  I still have it.

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« Reply #22 on: January 30, 2003, 12:37:21 PM »
My first flight sim was Air Warrior the good looking one...or atleast as I remember it bein good looking...

Dont rember first time..but remember putting a 5 speed fan next to my seat and setting it at 1 on take off 2 when im in the air and 5 when im going realy realy fast...
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« Reply #23 on: January 30, 2003, 01:15:07 PM »
Microprose's F117 on the PC. it had 256 colors so cute...
oh wait, I think the first sim I played was LHX-cool CGA graphics :)
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« Reply #24 on: January 30, 2003, 01:15:53 PM »
Not sure was either F-15 strike eagle (air starts in that game) or Falcon on the Atari 1040ST, back in 87.
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« Reply #25 on: January 30, 2003, 01:16:32 PM »
udet  you should have played F-19...F-117's predecessor.
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« Reply #26 on: January 30, 2003, 01:26:01 PM »
SWOTL

I remember thinking, "Wouldn't it be great to fly with other real people."  Then I started hearing about CK.  I lurked around waiting for the game to get affordable and a little more playable.

1st month in WB was about $200.  

1st kill, ahhhh I can see the pixels now.  What a great feeling.
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« Reply #27 on: January 30, 2003, 02:05:17 PM »
My 1st flight on the computer was Air Warrior..OFFLINE! No way could I have afforded the price to pay Genie to fly online like the OTHER FOOLS! I was in a P-51 (I had just finished  Yeager's autobio, and I really wanted to fly th P51). It wasn't until a couple of years later, after AW moved to AOL, that I was able to fly online. Talk about being a confused newbie. I helped define the term, I think.
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« Reply #28 on: January 30, 2003, 03:15:02 PM »
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I liked the land and rescue missions.  You would have to shoot (or sneak) your way in and out while dodging SAM and ZSU  tracks and Russian Jets.  You would go to some facility shoot up the defenses then land and pick up prisioners and rtb again.  Was about as fun as any game I ever played actually :)


Played those too. After playing every mission about a 1000 times, I would take the blackhawk and fly with only 1 engine, pretending it was a UH1 Huey. I would do the same with the LHX, pretending it was a AH-1 Cobra. The ospery... could never fly it on one engine very well.

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« Reply #29 on: January 31, 2003, 07:19:34 AM »
I top you all ;)
First flight was on a Sinclair ZX81, Psion Flight simulator, - 16K, year 1981/82
Later moved on to ZX Spectrum, where my favourite was Fighter Pilot, Nightflite II, and Spitfire 40.
First proper one was Aces over The Pacific in 1993 though, cool sim.
Then onto Airwarrior offline, and then Warbirds online, but since they vulched my credit card I resigned. Found AH soon thereafter and got Liberated ;)
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It was very interesting to carry out the flight trials at Rechlin with the Spitfire and the Hurricane. Both types are very simple to fly compared to our aircraft, and childishly easy to take-off and land. (Werner Mölders)
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