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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: reacher15 on January 28, 2006, 11:37:56 PM
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I found a working copy if AWIII and i have a bunch of recordings...i made a film and posted it in the films forum.
keep an eye out....i'll convert them all!
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Look in the main directory of the CD and look for a file called AWSheep.avi or something like that and watch it. Nice little easter egg put in by the Kesmoids.
ack-ack
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SWEET!
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I have AW3 on cd, play it from time to time when I get all teary eyed thinking of my buds from the best online flight sim ever!
>>>S<<< Ack-Ack! I used to talk to you all the time about my CH products lol! Ahhh those were the days!
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I beleive I also have a bunch of recordings saved on CD somewhere.
If anyone wants em. Give me a yell and I'll mail em to ya
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I found a copy of AW2 Gamestorm cd
you can only check ride or instant mission Cd has battle tech and Harpoon too. LOL, took a few min to remember the right comands Found another GS CD it has AW3 and AW4W.
Still fun and works,
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Originally posted by ZENMS
>>>S<<< Ack-Ack! I used to talk to you all the time about my CH products lol! Ahhh those were the days!
ZENMS! Long time no see my friend!
ack-ack
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<---Still has his original 1992 (or was it '93?) 1.04 SVGA Air Warrior on three 3.5 floppies, with the manuals, but the box is gone unfortunately.
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That B&W frame rate at the start of that flick is still about 4 times faster than the frame rate on the Mac AW 1.0 back in '87 ... and has 254 more shades of grey.
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Originally posted by Grits
<---Still has his original 1992 (or was it '93?) 1.04 SVGA Air Warrior on three 3.5 floppies, with the manuals, but the box is gone unfortunately.
I've got that one as well, Grits...I think it was late '92 or early '93 as my
GEnie credit card bills started about Feb of '93.
I've got the box as well as a couple of subsequent releases. I'll have to
dig them out and take some digital shots of them :)
I think my #4 computer on my lan here still has the last version of
AW on it....probably have a bunch of films and scenario stuff as well.
Ah, those were the days!
=GB=
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I still remember the first time I started up AW ever. I flew offline and remember thinking that this game sucked, all the planes looked like grey coffins with wings on them. How little I knew. :)
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Originally posted by Grits
<---Still has his original 1992 (or was it '93?) 1.04 SVGA Air Warrior on three 3.5 floppies, with the manuals, but the box is gone unfortunately.
Hehe... I still have the box too :)
I have every boxed version of AW there ever was, with updates. I haven't been able to use AW because it won't recognize any of the modern day joysticks... as far as I know. I have the Saitek X45 and a Logitech 3D in the closet.
Anyone know a way to work around that, and don't say use the keyboard LOL.
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it sees my X45 no problem
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I've been able to run Air Warrior III on my present-day computer without trouble. I've had some problems with earlier versions of Air Warrior.
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Originally posted by Grits
<---Still has his original 1992 (or was it '93?) 1.04 SVGA Air Warrior on three 3.5 floppies, with the manuals, but the box is gone unfortunately.
I think it was 92 Grits. I remember I was actually paying long distance charges to play it. I was ready to quit because of the cost............... Then they added a little color to the usually all grey airplanes. It kept me on another month , then it got to be AW or Divorce......................
You know I never missed her all that much.
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I was long distance too, $6 hr for GEnie and $7 hr for the LD, so I paid an hour basically what I pay for an entire month of AH. :)
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Originally posted by Grits
I was long distance too, $6 hr for GEnie and $7 hr for the LD, so I paid an hour basically what I pay for an entire month of AH. :)
LOL exactly. It was such a cool experiance after playing Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe , Aces of the Pacific , Aces over Europe, and other sims. To actually be able to fight other people on-line was unbelievable. I was hooked , but had to give it up until 1997 when I started playing Warbirds.
I think my AW number back in 93 was 3486, my handle was Jager. I was in JG3 with Drum for a bit before I had to quit. Then my first day in Warbirds I run into Drum, and his new squad JG51. I finnally made it to AH in 2001. Flying these planes on-line has always been a blast no matter what the sim. They just keep getting better.:aok Too bad my eyesight, and hand eye coordination doesn't upgrade too.;)
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I'll take the copy of Harpoon... That game was an oldy but a goody :)
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Originally posted by Grits
I was long distance too, $6 hr for GEnie and $7 hr for the LD, so I paid an hour basically what I pay for an entire month of AH. :)
Not to mention the people who'd sign on at the end of a campaign during prime time ($12/hr!!!!!!) to milk-run for extra points.
I really wish I still had screens of old Mac AW ... it was so totally stone age compared to what we have now.
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Originally posted by reacher15
it sees my X45 no problem
I re-installed AW III and used one of the joystick setups that sees my X45 and used the generic rudder, so far so good, but none of the choices for throttle work for me, what did you choose to make it work?
I don't have the update patch installed, I haven't found the CD it's on yet LOL, I wonder if there's anything in that patch?
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Originally posted by Brooke
I've been able to run Air Warrior III on my present-day computer without trouble. I've had some problems with earlier versions of Air Warrior.
Brooke download and extract to win system32 folder "WinG32" and change to 256 colors and it should run. I still havent figured out the joystick yet but I bet its just a game port driver.
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I have the box versions of AW4W and AWII. Have the CDs and sleeves from AWIII and AWMV. That and a hard drive full of films, manuals and extra junk from my last year or so.
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what was everyone's CPID back in the AW days?? I was Czhse, better known as Crazy Horse. I flew with Drkhs, aka Dark Horse. We Flew for the C's.
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Originally posted by Alky
I re-installed AW III and used one of the joystick setups that sees my X45 and used the generic rudder, so far so good, but none of the choices for throttle work for me, what did you choose to make it work?
I don't have the update patch installed, I haven't found the CD it's on yet LOL, I wonder if there's anything in that patch?
I've loaded SVGA DOS 1.5, AW II and AW III on my XP Pro box here.
I've got an X-45 setup.
For AW II I selected FLCS and TM WCS II. I loaded a default basic
profile into the X-45 and it worked fine. The throttle is seen OK and
the rudder maps to the rocker.
For AW III, I selected X-35F and X-35T and used the simple profile
on my X-45. Again, everything worked OK. I only programmed a few
functions into the profile... ";" for gear toggle, "7" for WEP, "b" for
bomb release.
I set the #1 hat to "buttons" and programmed the view swithes using
the keypad 4,8,6,2, 5, 4+8, 6+8 , etc.
I haven't tried getting the DOS SVGA running with the X-45 yet but I did
fly a mission with the mouse.
I also had a look at a few of my films from years gone by. I have one
from 1993 featuring HT but haven't watched that one yet :)
=GB=
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Of all the things in AW that I miss the most, it's the film and screen shots of the "last day"
Some former CM who will go unamed at this point (Blesk you moke lol) gave out privs to anyone he could find and were wreaking havoc on the masses as others tried to have a final flight lol was nuts. I remember Flossy, Culero, Spiffy and I, among a few others spending a great deal of time searching players privs and removing them instead of flying the last day If memory serves lol
Had a Europe and a US massive Good By Flight over the course of the final day and a hard drive failure a couple of years ago tossed the files.
I still have about a dozen scenario patches stored away somewhere, a Gamestorm Hat, Tshirt, Computer Repair Tool Kit, and a few other pieces of memorabelia laying around. I've still got the Gamestorm CD and MV on cd.
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Oh, and my Airwarrior hat. I got that after that sad attempt at an air race with the Dago Red guy. If DOSE had any hair left, he pulled it out that night. Was alot of fun though. :)
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Originally posted by JB28
what was everyone's CPID back in the AW days?? I was Czhse, better known as Crazy Horse. I flew with Drkhs, aka Dark Horse. We Flew for the C's.
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Names? AW had tail numbers a lot longer than it had CPID's.
3278, aka: Shaky Stick
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Was -MI-, Wreck, Winsum (when I wanted to fly against my squadies, don't think they ever knew). We have guys who have "flown" together for over 10 years, same squad, AW, Warbirds, AH.
MI
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Boy... AW2 and AW3... man those where the days!
i'm even old enough to remember Flying Circus :D
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Flying Circus was a blast! I kinda remember you too.
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The Flying Coffin....ahem...P38J
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v738/reacher10/flyingcoffin.jpg)
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Dood...that looks waaaay better than IL-2. :D
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Originally posted by Gypsy Baron
I've loaded SVGA DOS 1.5, AW II and AW III on my XP Pro box here.
how do you get Dos games to work correctly in XP?
theres a bunch I still have I wouldnt mind playing again. A few for win 3.1 too for that matter.
Cant get either to work in XP
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in AW. I started with AW on AOL
Flew with the Iron Dogs, and later had a short stint with "the Grey Ghosts" and eventually ended up with "The 352 Pale Riders"
Handle I started with and stayed with for a while was the game issued "qg123" ( just never botherd to change it)
Then for a good while I was known as "PORNO" till they said I couldnt have it any longer reason that was given me was someone called and whined about it because their kid wanted to know what PORNO ment and they didnt think they should have to explain it to them. (lmao if not the parent to explain it then who?)
Anyway. thats when I switched to probably my most known handle of
"/IT\" Which is still the handle I would prefer but when I joined up here they wouldnt let me have it and to get it now would mean either opening a new account which I plan on doing in the future so my son and I can fly together or loosing all my perks and such in this one.
Squads I most remember seeing in AW are AOS (Ace of Spades)
"Widow Makers" and the "MOTS" (lmao)
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I was ZENMS, short for Zen Master.... I was CO of the 14th TFS "Samurai's", began as a member of the 52nd TAS (tactical aero squadron) and was recruited by Bangr. He was a trip.... I also hung out with the 444th, LPN, dkwng, bum3, 1ejak (think that was how he typed it) xbrit, gosh so many good people, I feel bad for not naming them all... Slugm, otter, 2flie, JAYRO (the magnificent bastard also an egomaniac, but fun dood) man I am old.... cant remeber everyone! Oh yeah, ack-ack, goose, algy, Sab, dzfuk, jbkid, llama, mule, C5Gxy, all the Sea Serpents, the list goes on.... so many peeps not enough gray matter lol!
AW, had the best community!
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
how do you get Dos games to work correctly in XP?
theres a bunch I still have I wouldnt mind playing again. A few for win 3.1 too for that matter.
Cant get either to work in XP
There is a free environment called "dosbox" that I've used. It's a DOS emulator. Details are here:
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
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Originally posted by ZENMS
I was ZENMS, short for Zen Master.... I was CO of the 14th TFS "Samurai's", began as a member of the 52nd TAS (tactical aero squadron) and was recruited by Bangr. He was a trip.... I also hung out with the 444th, LPN, dkwng, bum3, 1ejak (think that was how he typed it) xbrit, gosh so many good people, I feel bad for not naming them all... Slugm, otter, 2flie, JAYRO (the magnificent bastard also an egomaniac, but fun dood) man I am old.... cant remeber everyone! Oh yeah, ack-ack, goose, algy, Sab, dzfuk, jbkid, llama, mule, C5Gxy, all the Sea Serpents, the list goes on.... so many peeps not enough gray matter lol!
AW, had the best community!
Hah.....Howdy ZENMS....from an old Sea Serpent. Still a few of us around (Frwy, Ranger66, Liaka) we merged with the Nazgul when AW died out.
Edit: Smaug and Hg were here for a few months but have since left.
Zaphod (Rex31 in AW)
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Originally posted by Iceman24
I'll take the copy of Harpoon... That game was an oldy but a goody :)
I think you can get it off of underdogs Iceman...also someone made an update for the original :)
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+Dead, DeadF, Cilk, Logs, Blnky, and countless others.
-- Todd/Leviathn
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CHKRS, CHECKERS ....`CUCAS SQUAD` & Later SeaSerpents ...
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Was TDale on aol, then Murdr, and occationally shaded under tflon
Originally posted by ROC
Some former CM who will go unamed at this point (Blesk you moke lol) gave out privs to anyone he could find and were wreaking havoc on the masses as others tried to have a final flight lol was nuts. I remember Flossy, Culero, Spiffy and I, among a few others spending a great deal of time searching players privs and removing them instead of flying the last day If memory serves lol
Oh yea. That was entertainment. Ill never forget a particular loud whine when kelly blacklisted them for tampering with the MA.
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Originally posted by Shifty
LOL exactly. It was such a cool experiance after playing Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe , Aces of the Pacific , Aces over Europe, and other sims. To actually be able to fight other people on-line was unbelievable. I was hooked , but had to give it up until 1997 when I started playing Warbirds.
I think my AW number back in 93 was 3486, my handle was Jager. I was in JG3 with Drum for a bit before I had to quit. Then my first day in Warbirds I run into Drum, and his new squad JG51. I finnally made it to AH in 2001. Flying these planes on-line has always been a blast no matter what the sim. They just keep getting better.:aok Too bad my eyesight, and hand eye coordination doesn't upgrade too.;)
Ah yes. Jager. I remember you:) Always protecting Drum :)
Lots of good 109 knife fights I must say.
-Hardock (official Drum hunter)
For the competiton. I did like him:)