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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: shamroc on October 06, 2007, 01:36:09 AM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpIhSmUnuIw
Classic Corsair Havoc in Airwarrior - for all you nostalgia types.
Shamroc
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Wow,
Those graphics were really bad back then. I guess they were prolly pretty good for their day though.
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"Back then" we didn't know any better and it was just a little bit of heaven for those of us wanting to pretend to be fighter pilots :)
Not that I was a numbers guy like in that film but the film looks like I remember my first AW days in 96
Try this one from the AW3 days.
Ahh nostalgia :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7XzWfwicKY&mode=related&search=
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Thanks Dan
Until this thread, I've never seen the AW that so many speak of. I didn't even own a computer back then.:)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SJWUFI3I1A&mode=related&search=
AirWarrior III Intro.
almost shed a tear on this one.
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thx , just saw where Big-T posted over there on Tiff's link......
heh... them times we all thought we were in Hog Heaven thinking we were WW2 pile-its in another dimension of time..... lots of good memories....
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Originally posted by WMLute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SJWUFI3I1A&mode=related&search=
AirWarrior III Intro.
almost shed a tear on this one.
some nights when I was too inebriated to fly, I would watch that over and over agin:aok good times
now I fly anyway..check my scores :lol
think I was running a Cyrix200 back then :p
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any1 catch in the text buffer he said "hey HT glad to have u back turnin and burnin"
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Most Xclent!!!
MajWoody...
That was AW Svga. If you think those graphics were bad, you would loved what preceeded it!!! :) The point wasn't the graphics...it was gameplay and in some ways (for me anyway) it was superior to what we have now.
TwinBoom...
Yes, I also saw other names (and I think numbers) I recognized. Kinda makes me wish I still had my old ST harddrive to watch film. :D
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Originally posted by MajWoody
Wow,
Those graphics were really bad back then. I guess they were prolly pretty good for their day though.
Who needed graphics when it was all about the fight?
Man did that bring back memories!
[EDIT] For those who were'nt around you couldn't capture bases back then. You could take them out of commission for a short while but not capture them so there really wasn't much to do except fight.
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Originally posted by Guppy35
"Back then" we didn't know any better and it was just a little bit of heaven for those of us wanting to pretend to be fighter pilots :)
Absolutely, for me it was just the fact that this technology existed. People from all over were in one place flying ww2 type planes playing air chess with one another!
Fantastic!
Class of '94
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Originally posted by MajWoody
Wow,
Those graphics were really bad back then. I guess they were prolly pretty good for their day though.
Earlier the distant cons were a T and you didn't have the purty cockpit. :D
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Originally posted by MajWoody
Wow,
Those graphics were really bad back then. I guess they were prolly pretty good for their day though.
Source of that video: Visited my home town (parent's place) last summer and ransacked my old room looking for goodies - found a cache of Zip Disks (remember those?). Anyways, I was curious to see what was on them - as luck would have it, there's an old Mom & Pop computer store next door to them - the type that sells 2nd hand used stuff (BTW they live in Canada, a world that Walmart/Bestbuy still has not completely taken over). Anyways, they had an internal 2nd hand "as-is" zip drive for $5.
Hands shaking, I connected the sucker to my dad's old PC - out of 14 or so disks, about half were corrupted, but I did get data off the 7 or so good ones - all LZH and ARJ archives. Burned it all to DVD format and packed 'em. Came back to Dallas and forgot about them. About 3 months ago I re-found the DVDs (yeah, I have a short attention span) and have just now started to see what old goodies were on there.
Found lots of great stuff - especially great were a bunch of Airwarrior CD images - ranging from 1.13 - 1.50 (DOS). Also had some old copies of my then squad's website.
Tried running old AW on my modern XP box - no such luck - even the installer wouldn't run - then came across DOSBOX, and managed to tweak it to get AW running. Managed to run some old films and record them - also just managed to get my modern stick working for it.
First thing you get: a rush of nostalgia when the "Airwarrior/Kesmai" logos come on - then you realize just how dated the graphics are, and you think "How on earth did we ever play this **** ?"
Funny thing though - the offline drones can give a decent fight, and after you fly for about 10 minutes, you forget all about the graphics and the gameplay completely sucks you back in.
Still looking for early versions of Confirmed Kill/Warbirds 1.0 - have found an old copy of Aces Over Europe, Doom and X-Wing LOL.... Also found a nice Erika Elaniak pictorial I scanned from Playboy LOL.
Shamroc
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Thanks for all the info guys. That's good stuff.:)