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Offline Snoopi

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« Reply #15 on: October 19, 2000, 03:59:00 PM »
Never tried AWDOS.....1st Online Was AW2 right when it came out.

Anyone remember the original "flight simulator" from sublogic ?
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Offline Wardog

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« Reply #16 on: October 19, 2000, 04:03:00 PM »
Snoopi

AW DOS came out in 1986 with a CGA Front End.It was the 1st online air combat sim.

then AW4W, AW2, AW3. All of them use the outdated AW DOS FM, Damage modeling and ballistic. Out of all the AW programs, AW DOS was the best for me..


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Offline Ping

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« Reply #17 on: October 19, 2000, 04:19:00 PM »
 Those were the days  
 I didnt fly much at all but started in 91 on Genie.
 I remember jumping onto the runway in armour for field defense and wasting about 10 of my own team   I didnt move from the spawn point when I started firing.
 Needless to say I was a dweeb.

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« Reply #18 on: October 19, 2000, 04:19:00 PM »
WD...

Yup...we are old

I flew my first sorties on an Amiga 1200...full screen for me cause I had the horsepower to run it

The squads were legendary like Mav said...close knit arena...and if someone left for another country, well I can't remember anyone ever doing that unless they were PNG

Simple is a good thing...prolly why I get so tired of hearing about whats wrong with AH etc...I never thought to even complain about AWDOS when I flew it, was too busy havin fun!

Seems that is not the case in todays arenas.

Good to hear from all you old farts...especially Mav and Wardog...oldtime Original 13th TAS killers

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Offline Fariz

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« Reply #19 on: October 19, 2000, 04:24:00 PM »
The first expirience is something which you will never forget. I remember my first connect, first chat, first post, first computer game, and so on.

And I remember my first kill in AH. I got the guy at 1.1k, when he tried to land, that is how my dweebish career started   But I was so exited that I screemed as crazy, and that was 5.30 in the morning. Well, I think that is the expirience my family remember well, also  

AH is a great game, in my heart it is second only to the Wizardry 7. May be in 2010, when we will all play Battles in a virtual reallity I will post something about how great that old AH day were  

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Offline Lephturn

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« Reply #20 on: October 19, 2000, 04:42:00 PM »
Figaro,

Capn Trips is still around.  He flew WB with us when the Pigs were flying WB.  He has flown AH, although he isn't active lately.  Capn Trips is still a Pig and still around the community, you'll see him again.  

Oink!

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Offline Jigster

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« Reply #21 on: October 19, 2000, 06:35:00 PM »
Who still has the AW DOS software?

(raises hand)

Only CYAC came close to AWDOS  

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Offline bongo

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« Reply #22 on: October 19, 2000, 06:58:00 PM »
AW DOS
 it was awsome, could not belive it.  The 1st month hit me for 350 buck hehe  
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« Reply #23 on: October 19, 2000, 07:17:00 PM »
Need less to say AW dos v1.4 effected me very strongly. Wonder what it would feel like to play 1/2 time again. Still have genie login etched forever in my brain xtx80210,vgdqeq....

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Offline Vlasov

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« Reply #24 on: October 19, 2000, 07:44:00 PM »
Expensive, that is the memory that sticks with me.  My friend and I were in grad school, and every tuesday evening we would leave the lab, go for cheap chinese take-out, go to his place and each fly precisely ONE hour of AW Dos.  Then we would continue whatever wargame we had set up that week.

We were splitting the cost of the GEnie account, and I must admit, eventually split the cost of a copy of Vfilm.  Then we finally compiled Jim Knutson's dialer on the unix box and got into the ladder, but that's another story  
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Offline Zigrat

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« Reply #25 on: October 19, 2000, 08:12:00 PM »
U guys are old
but i remember my first computer game ever, it was aces of the pacific, i loved that game. I still remember how fun to divebomb the jap carriers at midway in my trusty dauntless. and there was supposed to be a multiplay addon for it but they never made it  
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Offline Hangtime

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« Reply #26 on: October 19, 2000, 09:59:00 PM »
It was primitive. It was original. The guns were like lasers.   It was marvelous technology. Mind bogleing. It was the most fun I ever had outta bed. Ever. Every kill was an instant adrenilne rush.. amyl nitrate on a computer screen.

And nobody ever spent 380 bucks and squeaked about the sim.. they squeaked about their wives seein the bills.

Hang

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Offline Wardog

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« Reply #27 on: October 19, 2000, 10:00:00 PM »
Valsov..

I remember Vfilm, was HTs baby.. Maybe the reason AH gun camera film rocks.

Dog out.....
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« Reply #28 on: October 19, 2000, 10:53:00 PM »
Jeez, Hang! You hit that on the head!

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« Reply #29 on: October 19, 2000, 11:43:00 PM »
LOL!

My first bill was over 800.00!!!

I had no idea that genie charged more in the afternoons than evenings

Just told my wife about that one last year She wanted 800.00 to even the score
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