AWDOS.....what was the mystique?

[Westy]

  I think I found a gem  

  -Westy

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Category 3,  Topic 18
Message 100       Sun Jan 24, 1993
BLUEBARON [<- Librarian]     at 14:10 EST
 
Actually, Killer, there soon will be an alternative <clears throat>...

     ****** COMING SOON TO THE PAGE 870 SOFTWARE LIBRARY ******

                           Make<->Break

     An Art & Sound Editor for SVGA AW and the Regular AW PC FE

        Our own Hitech has written the slickest, most powerful, full featured
art and sound editor imaginable and has received permission from Kesmai to
upload this gem to the page 870 software library.

        Make/Break is a Windows application that:

          1) Breaks an artfile into its component views.

          2) Allows you to import any view DIRECTLY into the paint
             program that comes with Windows or into DPaint.

          3) Converts BMP or LBM files into the format AW recognizes.

          4) Checks coverage of art so that you'll know in advance
             if a view will be accepted or rejected by AW.

          5) Compiles art views into a recognized artfile.

          6) Breaks sound files into individual samples.

          7) Converts freely between VOC and WAV so that you can
             play and edit sounds within Windows.

          8) Allows you to edit your dash layout and many of your
             individual gauges in SVGA.

        This is not some geeky syntax program.  Rather, it employs all the
features you'd expect in a Windows environment.

        One thing this program will NOT let you do is create glass planes or
what many of us call "cheat art."  Thus purpose of Make/Break is allow you to
customize you art and sound, or create completely new art that meets the
standards (in coverage at least   of the professional cockpit artwork that
comes with SVGA AW.

        No, I'm not getting a commission or anything.  I'm just excited that
this is finally happening.  For some time I've followed Make/Break's
development and I donated a bit of my time to test it and create an online
help file for this program.

        HT is uploading this today.  It will take a few days for it to clear.
Look for it later in the week.

        Thanks for the cue, Killer-san <g>.

         BB

[humble]

I missed the end of AW dos...I flew a bit in the last year but had just started my business (partner in a search firm). Back then figuring how to pay for the raman noodles was a bigger priority than AW...well almost . So my immersion didnt come till AW on aol...but many of the old hands still flew AW. To me it was the most outstanding bunch of folks I'd ever met. The AW "code" was deeply entrenched and was enforced ruthlessly ...I'd say it took a good year for the game to begin to degenerate. But back then, vulching (cept "squad stuff") was almost unheard of. 4th man stayed hi 90% of time...meaning a 1 on 1 went to a 1 on 2...but stopped there. Most pilots gave a 2500 ft climb of a capped field...now this wasnt constant...but furballs were a rare animal early on...a lot more dogfighting or limited stuff...hard to find 8-10 guys in same sector then.

[Badboy]

 

Originally posted by Westy:
 I think I found a gem  

  -Westy

Yep, but that was nothing compared to his other utility for AWDOS VFilm!! That was the best film viewer AW ever had. It still hasn't been matched in AW, or AH.

I enjoy watching the films almost as much as the flying, so I'm hoping HT will do it again... For AH this time of course  

Badboy

[NUTTZ]

Westy thanx for the trip down memory lane...Allthou i entered the AW scene late 94' I sure do miss the reads in bigweek, and the reads on Scavenger's post. Westy do you have one? please post it.... i'll read it, kick up my feet, close my eyes and dream of the past.

NUTTZ

[Westy]

Here is all of Scav's "Greats"
 http://www.concentric.net/~espottke/scav/index.html

 I'll try and find a good  nugget from the "archives"        I miss BW too. It's different now. I don't belong that's for sure. It became so rare to find any talk about WWII fightsims and WWII aircract/aircombat talk the last year or so. I left, for more, my sanity and that of the folks there    .

 I thin I know where a copy of Vfilm is Badz   I'l grab a copy for posterity!

 -Westy

p.s.  It's a shame I have no idea how to archive UBB forumns. I have a chunk of Genie as well as the AW nntp BigWeek boards. But WB's and AH? No idea how to save the history    At least the  WB's community went further than any others as they have the WB's book. (have my own copy)
 How about a few quotes from the Tao of Dok?  

[This message has been edited by Westy (edited 11-14-2000).]

[Ice]

Again Westy....thanks

Ice

[washout]

 

Originally posted by Zigrat:
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  

Sorry this is slightly OT but:

Finally someone mentioned my favourite game ever: Aces of the Pacific.  Still play it occasionally for the fun of it.

AH is my first online flight sim but I've been playing boxed sims ever since I got my 8086 PC back in '89.  First sim: Chuck Yeager's Flight Simulator.

[Hajo]

Westy.....nice werk and <<S>>

[Halo]

Still remember being in the local
Atari store and finding a shareware disk for $3 with something called Air Warrior on it.  Go on line?  What's that?  GEnie?  Where's that?

And that first incredible realization that other PEOPLE are flying those little stick planes around the screen.  What a rush!

But I sure don't miss the $13 an hour it cost ($6 AW and $7 an hour local long distance to reach nearest GEnie phone access).

Eventually joined Fencer's famous WarHawks and eventually found how, ironically, it wasn't much fun when any one squad finally got so large it could cruise around blasting everything largely unopposed.

An early lesson in numbers usually prevailing.

Never saw much more about Fencer after he got married (gee, wives need attention too?). Split, the deputy commander, still leads the small WarHawks squad in WarBirds.  I've carried the WH torch to AH but so far can't get any of the others to come here permanently from WB, especially with no Mac for Split.

The growing international contingent here and in WB is terrific.  But I've always worried about too much re-creation of WWII into allies and axis, so I'm glad AH, at least for the moment, is focused on politically neutral countries like the three pawn pieces with all aircraft and vehicles available to all.

Of course that's the way WB started, but lately WB users are ignoring its politically neutral Main Arena to focus on WWII progression with historically accurate plane sets changing every week.  Sounds great, but I'm not sure it's a good idea to keep considering oneself as allied or axis.  It also can get tiresome and predictable as various planes dominate various periods.

AH absolutely dazzles me with its thoroughness and innovations.  I rarely play anything else -- can't imagine a more ultimate challenge and involvement.  

And at a great flat rate.  Our cup runneth over.  Salutes to Air Warrior for starting it all, WB to improving it, and AH for honing the leading edge.