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Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Ripsnort on March 14, 2000, 08:58:00 AM
I know there are quite a few  here in AH, I'd like to know what handle you used when it was CK, Pre-version 1.11 please only.  Some of the  best  times I had in WB's (CK) was when some of these "old-timers" gave me a lesson or two     (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)

I started in V.82 or V.87, can't remember which, I DO know that we had a 'Blue' country for a while, we had to telnet in,and the Zero would  catch  the P38 in a dive easily, the spit was  unflyable, and fights  with "Torq", "8-bal" and "Corn" was  always a training experience  for  me.

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Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: pzvg on March 14, 2000, 09:23:00 AM
I took the handle "spot" unfortunatly, some guy who was an oscar had used it before me,after learning why guys were so eager to clobber me, I wisely became the Semi-invisible PZVG, who has always been around but no one seems to remember  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

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Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Ripsnort on March 14, 2000, 09:26:00 AM
I remember ya  PZVG, I  also remember "spot", I think "spot" became "Manoc" here  in AH and disappeared as  soon  as we went "Pay".  Say, do you remember  the name of the  guy that used to "sing" alot on open channel, and talk about how good the wine was  while he  flew?  hehe, he was too funny!
Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Gazoo on March 14, 2000, 09:28:00 AM
Well, I used to be farm, a long time ago.  Then farm died in a flying mishap, and Gazoo showed up.

I will start flying AH again, as soon as the W2K mouse bug is fixed.

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Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: DoctorYO on March 14, 2000, 09:45:00 AM
Anyone ever play Falcon 1.0 By the late Spectrum Holobyte...

You would have to be a old school mac user...

Regards,


DoctorYO
Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Westy on March 14, 2000, 10:37:00 AM
The original CK, from the first publicly available download. Offline yes. Online no.

-Westy
Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: JENG on March 14, 2000, 10:55:00 AM
I shouldn't post here (only flew WB from 2.4 to 2.6)... but I just have to reply to YO  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Yes Doc, I flew Falcon 1.0 on a friends Mac (5 mb HD, monochroom screen, no joystick)
Was awed by it tho (was back in 1988 or something like that) Holobyte realy started the extensive manual, realistic sim thing  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)



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Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: -lynx- on March 14, 2000, 10:57:00 AM
I started in 1.08 (or .09) - late 1995? Don't remember now. Times when Dora was 600lbs underweight and 38 flaps didn't induce any drag. Flew as 1ynx until WB 2.0 came out. Corn was always "that Gold pony up there" about to drop down and kill you...

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Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Ping on March 14, 2000, 11:07:00 AM
 I was there with the first publicly available download as ping

 ping I was, and ping I shall remain  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

 lousy pilot tho  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)
Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Rude on March 14, 2000, 11:14:00 AM
I flew early CK betas under the callsign Ice.

Still miss those misty canyons and valleys (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Rude Out!
Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Terror on March 14, 2000, 11:20:00 AM
I did some early CK as "terr".  Been quite a while though.

Aaron "Terror" Edwards
Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Vermillion on March 14, 2000, 12:06:00 PM
I started reading some of the info, websites and posts (didn't somebody have a old Newsgroup or something then?) about WB's in the "CK era".

I actually flew a little (sucked horribly, and was nothing more than vulch bait) in 0.99, and then for pay, shortly in the early 1.0X versions but couldn't afford it for long while in college.

My next account was in the 1.06 to 1.07 era, and I had that account up until about 3 weeks ago.

I almost felt like I was killing an old friend when I canceled that account.   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)

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Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: AKDejaVu on March 14, 2000, 12:10:00 PM
Flew WB from .9something until 2.0 came out.  Was on the closed beta team for 2.0, but lost interest when 2.0 was no longer compatable with NT 4.0.  My id was thun and later changed to thdx (1.11).

As for Falcon 1... I was playing it on my Tandy SL1000 in 88.  There was a pc version out there... I know it (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)  In all its 4 color glory.  Needless to say I was first in line when Falcon 3.0 came out (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

AKDejaVu
Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Ripsnort on March 14, 2000, 12:15:00 PM
Oh man, this is great, I remember  all you guys! Thun, Terr, farm,"spot", lynx hehe, Hiya once  again!  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Wardog on March 14, 2000, 12:16:00 PM
Greets Rip..

13th TAS came to CK from AW DOS in v0.84 if i remember correctly. My handle was dog1. When we dropped the DOS FE and went 3D i took the handle --wd--. And still have this handle to this day in Warbirds. I am keeping my 2 WB account open till i see WB 3.0.

But i only fly HA & S3 events there now. Love what HT and the boys are doing here and where he wants AH to go. Very impressed with the HTC crew. As well as flying with us & updates regularly,i get a ton o kills from clearing his 6   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

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Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Batmann on March 14, 2000, 12:33:00 PM
hehe, Yes, I am. I'm "bat-".  ;-)
Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: bongo on March 14, 2000, 02:08:00 PM
I came from AW to CK .82 i was bong then which was short for bongo
Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Udie on March 14, 2000, 05:33:00 PM
 I started in aug of 95, .87 i think.  It was about 2 version b4 they split with Doh!mark  I think the first Warbirds was version .92 .    Those were the days!

 AKDejavu,  I didn't know your were thun! long time no see dude!  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)  Here's 2 names that I miss...  mrty and pors,  mrty was my "mentor" in CK he tought me how to get off the ground, and pors was one of the best damned spit fighters in the game at the time.  You guys around under diferent names?

udie
Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Frodo on March 14, 2000, 06:46:00 PM
I started in the fall of 95.October maybe?
First as ronp.Then as frdo,frodo-.

Hi Bong!Long time.

What ever happened to paso?Anyone know?The best jabo guy I ever saw.

What about jonr? The first f6f ace. ;o)

Frodo
Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Wicked on March 14, 2000, 07:30:00 PM
First started out in Warbirds on my Mac sometime mid to late 96.  I believe it was version 1.09 or 1.10.  I flew as UB86 up until v2.0 when you couldn't use numbers anymore.  I switched to Wicked cause I liked how it sounded, nobody else had taken it, and there were no other variations that I saw.  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) I switched to PC almost exactly 3 years ago and never looked back.  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Before Warbirds, I flew Mac Air Warrior for a long time.  I usually flew as Ajax or Jax as you could pick your handle everytime you flew.  I was going to be Ajax in Warbirds but someone had already taken it by the time I came in.

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Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Vulcan on March 14, 2000, 08:27:00 PM
Uhh I flew CK beta under vlcn then some wierdo bug made me use -vlkn- in WB now I'm Vulcan.

Same difference really.

I miss the CK Uber-Zeke. Climbed like an X-15, dived from 20k without compression, could pull 30G turns on a dime, cannons that an A10 would be envious of.

Anyone remember the time they rolled out CAPICIs when there was a con on? Wonder if there are any hidden here?

-vlkn- in
Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Frodo on March 14, 2000, 11:15:00 PM
Vulcan I remember the CAPICI"S! I was nursing a nice streak,when this bat out of hell came down and blew me away with ease.I was a little pissed.  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)

What were they flying?Comets?

Do you remember the super zekes from one of the cons?I think they had FW guns?

Also I remember deft and I flying in the special Tuskegee event,and getting our bellybutton kicked by some of the Tuskegee guys.

H/T & Pyro any plans to run another event with these guys?

Frodo
Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Udie on March 14, 2000, 11:24:00 PM
I can't remember cap't ICI  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/rolleyes.gif)

Udie
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Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Big Mac on March 14, 2000, 11:38:00 PM
Bongo was the one who told me about CK, signed up a day or two after him.  Handle was bmac.

bigmac
Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: bongo on March 15, 2000, 12:00:00 AM
Hiya Frodo,  man  bigmac and i did a lot of fying in the AW days!!!
Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Maniac on March 15, 2000, 02:02:00 AM
I signed up for my first account in WB during ver 1.4 i think, my brother had been flying for an couple of vers before that and i remember sitting there looking when he was flying, i was amazed   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

My handle was nr-1

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Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Jekyll on March 15, 2000, 03:39:00 AM
Started about version 0.87 or so as 'Cob1'

I had previously flown on the AW Ozhost as 'Cobra', but in CK all the best variations of that name had already been taken.

Moved over to 'Jekyll' when 6 letter ID's became available in version 1.1 or so.

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Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Lephturn on March 15, 2000, 08:26:00 AM
I started in WB 1.0 as "leph".. maybe 1.01?  Well before 6 letter ID's anyway.  I managed to miss beta by a month or so.  d'oh.

It's cool how many folks I recognize from the "old days".   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

BTW, Captain ICI was a little model of a super-hero type dude with a cape.  Uh.. except he had a gun.   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)  It was possible to kill Cap ICI, just really tough since he was a tiny little target.   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)  I never did get him, but I think Eagl or one of my squaddies pegged him once. <G>

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And she took a round coming 'cross the Channel last trip
I was thinking 'bout my baby and lettin' her rip
Always got me through so far
Well they can ship me all over this great big world
But I'll never find nothing like my North End girl
I'm taking her home with me one day, sir
Soon as we win this war"
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Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: fats on March 15, 2000, 08:51:00 AM
I'm here - still with out a damn AH account though, cause I am too lazy/busy getting it opened.


//fats

Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Vila on March 15, 2000, 02:15:00 PM
I joined shortly after the CK/WB switch... version .92 or something like that?  Oct/Nov 95.

Memories.....   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Vila
Title: Any "Pre-Warbird, Confirmed Kill" pilots?
Post by: Ichi on March 15, 2000, 05:15:00 PM
Logged in CK beta .84-.85

Still managed to keep Ichi for a callsign.

Ich.
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