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Title: Remember this sim?
Post by: LePaul on March 24, 2007, 12:49:38 AM

Chuck Yeager's Air Combat...

Man I keep hoping for this game to make it to modern PCs!

Linky (http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/chuck-yeagers-air-combat/screenshots)  for screenshots

Title: Remember this sim?
Post by: rpm on March 24, 2007, 12:51:09 AM

I don't remember mobygames.:confused:

Title: Remember this sim?
Post by: LePaul on March 24, 2007, 12:55:22 AM

So much for linking the screenshot  LOL

Try again

Title: Remember this sim?
Post by: VWE on March 24, 2007, 01:09:42 AM

Here (http://www.migman.com/ref/1990_combat/ChuckYeager/ChuckYeager.htm)  
is a great resource for all of you 'old' sim stuff. I've even seen a free download for Yeagers sim, if you have an old DOS machine. I think its less than 1meg total...  :D

Title: Remember this sim?
Post by: rpm on March 24, 2007, 01:11:07 AM

Aces Over Europe was my first flight sim. Those were the days...

Title: Remember this sim?
Post by: Munkii on March 24, 2007, 02:20:51 AM

Heh.. the ol infamous "P-47 Mustang".  Mobygames doesn't factcheck.

Title: Remember this sim?
Post by: Dago on March 24, 2007, 07:22:07 AM

I started with Dynamix "Red Baron".   Was that bad boy laggy online.  Of course, I was running a 386/16 with a 14.4 modem.

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Post by: Mark Luper on March 24, 2007, 10:20:08 AM

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Originally posted by Dago
I started with Dynamix "Red Baron".   Was that bad boy laggy online.  Of course, I was running a 386/16 with a 14.4 modem.

That was my first sim too. I ran it offline only on a 386/D40 With a whopping 1meg of ram.

Mark

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Post by: DREDIOCK on March 24, 2007, 10:43:53 AM

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Originally posted by Munkii
Heh.. the ol infamous "P-47 Mustang".  Mobygames doesn't factcheck.

what are you talking about?
That cockpit looks just like the cockpit of a P47 mustang!

;)

First flightsim here was "Gunship"
After that it was "F-16 combat Pilot"
Both on the Commodore 64

Then on the Amiga
 F-18 interceptor
then the WWI game "Wings"
Had Red Baron but couldnt get it to run
"Their Finest Hour"

Title: Remember this sim?
Post by: Dago on March 24, 2007, 11:16:08 AM

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Originally posted by Mark Luper
That was my first sim too. I ran it offline only on a 386/D40 With a whopping 1meg of ram.

Mark

You had a whole meg???  :D

Title: Remember this sim?
Post by: Masherbrum on March 24, 2007, 11:26:44 AM

My first was "Wings of Fury" on my Apple IIe

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Post by: FiLtH on March 24, 2007, 11:53:03 AM

My first was PC game was Midway for the Vic20 that u needed a 16kb expansion card to play. My first flying game was Solo Flight on C64. First fighter game..hmm...F15 Strike Eagle for C64?

Title: Re: Remember this sim?
Post by: Sandman on March 24, 2007, 12:19:41 PM

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Originally posted by LePaul
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat...

Man I keep hoping for this game to make it to modern PCs!

Linky (http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/chuck-yeagers-air-combat/screenshots)  for screenshots

Yeah... one of the first online sims that we could make work on a Mac. I spent hours and hours flying against Red Ant back in the day.

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Post by: nirvana on March 24, 2007, 02:00:32 PM

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Originally posted by Munkii
Heh.. the ol infamous "P-47 Mustang".  Mobygames doesn't factcheck.

Saw that too, they also have it as "HE-109E"  Heh.

Title: Remember this sim?
Post by: cpxxx on March 24, 2007, 05:24:29 PM

Great game, I still have it. Graphics were terrible even then but the gameplay was brilliant. It even came with a tape from the great man himself. It played off a floppy and I used to bring it to work as I didn't own a PC. Wasted many an hour dogfighting over the featureless wastes of green pixels.
I also had Chuck's flight trainer which had an air racing facility where it recorded your last three fastest flights and you found yourself trying to best your own record in spits, p51's or jets. It was intense.

For all the fabulous graphics and gameplay of modern sims. I've yet to repeat the fun factor of those two.

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Post by: moot on March 24, 2007, 05:36:40 PM

I'd set up a swarm of Yak biplanes to tear up in a jet anytime I finished homework early in computer class...
It was a lot of fun.

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Post by: Hajo on March 24, 2007, 07:56:58 PM

First Sim here was Their Finest Hour played on an 8088 without a hard drive.   Pleae insert disk two......please insert disk three. LOL

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Post by: Halo on March 24, 2007, 10:18:06 PM

Yeah, the Yeager sim definitely was a lot of fun without any hassle.

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Post by: B@tfinkV on March 24, 2007, 11:14:33 PM

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Originally posted by nirvana
Saw that too, they also have it as "HE-109E"  Heh.

think that s actualy an M if it was an H the single pixel horizontal would be in the middle not near the top :) but yeah it looks like a bit of an H.

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Post by: Red Tail 444 on March 25, 2007, 12:37:49 AM

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Originally posted by Munkii
Heh.. the ol infamous "P-47 Mustang".  Mobygames doesn't factcheck.

LOL yeah, beat me to it. I think that game is LIGHT years ahead of AH2

:D

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Post by: nirvana on March 25, 2007, 01:55:30 AM

Indeed it does look more like an M then an upon further review.  My bad:(

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Post by: VWE on March 25, 2007, 02:52:57 AM

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For all the fabulous graphics and gameplay of modern sims. I've yet to repeat the fun factor of those two.

Do you think it cause it was your first flight or combat sim? You know what I really miss? I miss that little, fit in one hand, joystick that I used with that Mac. Frikin joysticks today are gettin to the point you almost have to strap em on.

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Post by: cpxxx on March 25, 2007, 08:17:00 AM

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Originally posted by VWE
Do you think it cause it was your first flight or combat sim? You know what I really miss? I miss that little, fit in one hand, joystick that I used with that Mac. Frikin joysticks today are gettin to the point you almost have to strap em on.

Maybe, but actually it wasn't my first sim, I had Falcon AT and sublogic's ATP before it. I think it was just it's simplicity and pickupability. Yet it had a 'realistic' feel to it. I didn't even have a joystick. The PC in work didn't even have a mouse:lol or even Windows. I played it with arrow keys.

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Post by: Sox62 on March 25, 2007, 08:23:06 AM

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Originally posted by Hajo
First Sim here was Their Finest Hour played on an 8088 without a hard drive.   Pleae insert disk two......please insert disk three. LOL

Same here,but I played mine on my brand new 12 mhz 286 with a HUGE 49 meg hard drive.

I loved that game.

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Post by: Dago on March 25, 2007, 08:27:37 AM

Actually the first "sim" I remember playing was "B17 Bomber"  on an Intellevision.  But that wasn't a PC game, rather a game console.

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Post by: Angus on March 26, 2007, 04:55:43 AM

Top this:
My first flightsim was Psion flight simulator for the Sinclair ZX81.
I hacked into the program and converted it into a night-bomber sim, hehe.
That was in 1982. Program size less than 16K.

Title: Remember this sim?
Post by: BBBB on March 26, 2007, 05:12:35 AM

My first sim was Flight of the Intruder. Man I loved that game. Looking at it now it looks like crap..but back then it was the best thing going in my book. I recall streaking in low and fast in my A-6 dropping ord on old charles's head. Good times.

http://www.migman.com/ref/1990_combat/FOTI/FOTI.htm


-BB