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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Wraith_TMS on December 29, 2009, 06:37:47 PM
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Hi everyone,
The "compendium" is a little project that I just finished. It's a PDF compilation of all the old Air Warrior complete campaign scores that I could find. You'll find the link to it on the current top page of our squad website. It's a big file, but it's like a trip back through time.
I'd hoped to have it ready for Christmas as a gift to old :joystick: AW'ers out there, but I just couldn't get it ready in time. However here it is. It may bring back good memories for some :cheers:, and maybe start or end some arguments about who was Uber and who wasn't :old:. You'll find many old friends and adversaries in its pages, including our good host, Mr. D. Addink, who shows up all over the place! Enjoy, compliments of The Musketeers :salute:
http://www.musketeers.org/ (http://www.musketeers.org/)
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It ends just when I got started. Sometime in 1996. Got any from then till its demise?
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Found myself in the listing there. Thanks. :old: :airplane:
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Thanks for posting Wraith dood :)
Oh my ...
11/15/91 ...4th in bombing score as Gray Eagle
of the Aggressors no less
I had been playing about a year by then, as Deader initially,
then as GE as I began to get kills
-LOL-
Scoring was rarely my focus... not much time spent over 10k :)
-GE aka Frank
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Damn...
HiTech played way to much back then :)
brings back a lot of memories... Thanks for pulling all the old logs....
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I'm with Filth on that one Wraith, you just missed getting me on there. I think I had to have started juuuust after your cutoff there. I wonder if there's some way to come up with the AOL scores from back then. I know I've said this before by the way, but you are truly the man!
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I'm with Filth on that one Wraith, you just missed getting me on there. I think I had to have started juuuust after your cutoff there. I wonder if there's some way to come up with the AOL scores from back then. I know I've said this before by the way, but you are truly the man!
Thanks Madda. :aok Yes, as I mentioned in the foreword and on the blog post, it's got gaps in the results time-line. Hence the title "Incomplete". I can commiserate if you guys aren't in there, since I myself only make my first appearance on the charts in camp 121, I believe. I can relate... truly. :frown: A few months back, when I got the idea for this thing, I put out a call on this board and the AWonline boards, for anyone that might have old records to contribute to this project, but I guess no one had any additional to offer. This is why it's also the "1st Edition." If more records are found, I can make a 2nd edition, and even break them up into volumes, since the amount of data in this file is huge even now.
BTW, I may or may not have posted about the Crash & Burn Cafe Archives before (sorry, guys), but here is a similar document which compiles the printouts that we have on hand, of the old Crash 'n' Burn Cafe, from AW's GEnie days, (circa 1991 and 1992). It too may be incomplete but it was all that we had (Thanks Thud!). This was before my time on AW too, but it's a hoot to read. All the nonsense you see on the AH boards had precedents on the C&B board :P. You can find the link to the PDF for it on the Muskies' site here: http://www.musketeers.org/?p=171 (http://www.musketeers.org/?p=171)
Have fun... :salute
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I have a notebook .. somewhere .. with all the Aggressors in there from when I began AW .. not many stayed with the game.
Vossman (1571?) (Jay Thompson, not to be confused with that scumbag who said he flew F-16's for the CIA ..ROFL)
..only two that stayed in AW I beleive.
Got boxes that I havent unpacked for over a decade ..I know one of 'em has the maps and boxes of AW unopened that I was given as they were published, along with copies of the magazine covers I did an such.
-GE aka Frank
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It ends just when I got started. Sometime in 1996. Got any from then till its demise?
same there thats about the time i got into AW, i remember FiLTH, and wraith, HB555, first flew as ZMan, then got recruted by the Mots been hooked ever sense still fly with a old AW squadie he was MOTRX, now goes by 68RacerX, would be great if someone could find 96 to the demise.
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I have a notebook .. somewhere .. with all the Aggressors in there from when I began AW .. not many stayed with the game.
Vossman (1571?) (Jay Thompson, not to be confused with that scumbag who said he flew F-16's for the CIA ..ROFL)
..only two that stayed in AW I beleive.
Got boxes that I havent unpacked for over a decade ..I know one of 'em has the maps and boxes of AW unopened that I was given as they were published, along with copies of the magazine covers I did an such.
-GE aka Frank
Hi GE,
Sounds like you may have a trove there. You know, I bet a lot of the AW vets have stuff like that around, but it's buried somewhere in an attic or garage, and probably few are willing to dig through old stuff. Another problem is that newer computers don't come with 3.5" disk drives anymore, so they have no way of seeing what may be in an old disk. I ordered my computer with a 3.5" drive just so I had a way to go through legacy stuff, but not everyone has that capability on their 'puters anymore.
Thanks for the compliment earlier, btw. :)
BTW GE, Killer was asking about you on our Bloody Blade forum the other day, btw. You might want to check out his post:
http://www.musketeers.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4#p391 (http://www.musketeers.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4#p391)
Wow, if I keep posting on this forum at this prolific rate, I might reach "platinum" status in less than a decade! :x
Cheers!
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Thanks Madda. :aok Yes, as I mentioned in the foreword and on the blog post, it's got gaps in the results time-line. Hence the title "Incomplete". I can commiserate if you guys aren't in there, since I myself only make my first appearance on the charts in camp 121, I believe. I can relate... truly. :frown: A few months back, when I got the idea for this thing, I put out a call on this board and the AWonline boards, for anyone that might have old records to contribute to this project, but I guess no one had any additional to offer. This is why it's also the "1st Edition." If more records are found, I can make a 2nd edition, and even break them up into volumes, since the amount of data in this file is huge even now.
Oh I remember you asking on the list about this stuff, but any of it that I may have had was wiped out in the fire that got all the rest of my stuff too. I probably didn't have any score info though, as I never cared one whit about it. I used to auger just to go and get a new plane, or to find new and interesting stuff to crash into when the fr pac was slow.
I did see a lot of names of old guys there that I hadn't seen for a long long time though. Nice little trip down memory lane, I accidentally took a second hour over lunch today due to reading it :D
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Oh I remember you asking on the list about this stuff, but any of it that I may have had was wiped out in the fire that got all the rest of my stuff too. I probably didn't have any score info though, as I never cared one whit about it. I used to auger just to go and get a new plane, or to find new and interesting stuff to crash into when the fr pac was slow.
I did see a lot of names of old guys there that I hadn't seen for a long long time though. Nice little trip down memory lane, I accidentally took a second hour over lunch today due to reading it :D
<Madda's :furious Boss> <--- Kids, don't let this happen to you! Don't get in trouble with your boss! Read the Compendium AFTER work... otherwise you'll too mesmerized to be productive... it's THAT engrossing! :x
Fight it, Madda, fight it!
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What a happy trip down memory lane.
Thanks for that!
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I don't think I started until late 1996. That's when I first got my awesome 133 mghz comp with a huge 1.6 gig hard drive that would never ever fill up (that lasted a whole 9 mos).
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Looks like I started late in 93. I remember GE being an old vet back then :)
Anyone remember how the score system worked back then? Seemed like consecutive and total kills counted for a lot?
I finished #2 in the WWI arena...once. I must of been uber! ;)
Rashy
p.s. one tour I was Peter Rash.
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Looks like I started late in 93. I remember GE being an old vet back then :)
Anyone remember how the score system worked back then? Seemed like consecutive and total kills counted for a lot?
I finished #2 in the WWI arena...once. I must of been uber! ;)
Rashy
p.s. one tour I was Peter Rash.
I think you are spot on about the scoring.
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I don't think I started until late 1996. That's when I first got my awesome 133 mghz comp with a huge 1.6 gig hard drive that would never ever fill up (that lasted a whole 9 mos).
I started with the most powerful computer at the time.... IBM 200mghz 2.5Gig hard drive..... cost a whopping $1800 bucks.... :rofl 2 months later my computer was absolete and selling for 999.00 :cry
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I seem to remember practicing my egg delivery .. a *lot* .. in the P-51.
Peacepkeeper hammered us Aggies pretty hard on never takin off without eggs ..seemed like the ol' Stang always got me to target :)
I believe that's how I got so hi in buff scoring for some camps.
Just tuff to stop a Stang-buff done 'right' :)
ie: 10k cruise to tgt, max power for speed a sector out, 45 deg dive into target area, leveling at minimum alt for the drop at very high speed, minimal exposure to flak and back up to 3k for egress on the zoom in WEP ..you could see the 'X' from the bombsite out there just off the nose to guage when yer bombing alt was correct ..hadda be fast or the explosion of yer own bombs would killya ..I seem to remember 500' was too high, <100' was too low ..about 450 indicated and 150-200 ft was ideal :)
'Good old days' .. ROFL.
Readin the C'n B brought back a lot of memories .. I started gettin pissed all over again.
..'clique' does not even begin to describe it.
It was like all those 'first days' rolled into one .. first day of school, first day at a new job, first time in a strange bar, a lot of people were too intimidated to post at all.
Hawkeye was my cousin .. him and I were both ex-service by then and not much fazed us, every time we got hammered we had no problems hammerin back.
You would sneak up on some of those 'Great Ones' low six and blow them away and the whining would go on for *days*
..every excuse was trotted out like a Litany of IT COULD NOT HAPPEN TO ME!!
There was nothin as rewarding :)
Amazin how it still goes on .. spelling Nazi's, grammar cops, perennnial 'which plane is better' debates, and always occasional gems of history-facts-good stuff to know,
..heck we all even ..gradually .. learned to type
(bah, a wimmen's skill, nothin to be *proud* of, -rolls eyes-)
Ya BB .. I even learned 'paragraphs' ..sheesh.
-GE aka Frank
-just sayin (tm Pasha)
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Wow, one time I beat HiTech! I was 122nd and he was 123rd. Nice of him to let the customer win. Of course that may or may not have been THE HiTech. On other lists he was No. 1, and I don't remember ever making double figures in any standings.
Long live the WarHawks from B land! Fencer, Split, Surf, Halo (me), Thud, Banshee, Willie, Death Wish, Sparrowhawk, RoughRider, and many others. Just think, all those years ago, from an Atari ST and a $5 shareware disk, stick figure airplanes connected via Genie dialup after hours.
It cost $6 an hour Air Warrior and $7 an hour Genie, total $13 for ONE HOUR. That's almost the cost of the present Aces High $15 a month 24/7 via cable (and cable cost for Aces High can be considered a free bonus since computers are now on line for so much other stuff).
WWII flight simulation has come a long way, thanks to the dedicated Aces High crew and loyal customers. :salute
Thanks, Wraith and the Musketeers, for reviving and preserving some of this heritage from the late 20th century (sounds so long ago). :aok
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Thanks for the memories but as I suspected I still don't remember what my handle was back then and I am pretty sure I never got close to being a ranked player. One thing I do remember is flunking out of college for a quarter due to spending too much time on the game. Man I must have sucked worse then than I do now.
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I got involved in AW in 98, but even if you had the records from then I doubt I'd remember my ID.
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I cant remember mine either, I think something like guns, or gunner, or had a number combination with it like 33 at the end.... :old: too long ago I suppose.
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Always wondered what year I started in the Pixel airplane world. It appears it was 1993. :old:
I was pretty bad then also. Ranked in the mid 300's to mid 500's and there was a lot fewer people playing back then. So, if I play another 16 years I may get pretty good at.......What was I saying?.....lost my train of thought...................... ..........think I'll take a nap.
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Thanks, Wraith and the Musketeers, for reviving and preserving some of this heritage from the late 20th century (sounds so long ago). :aok
You're all very welcome guys (Halo, GE, and the rest of you vets...); glad you liked it and got some fun out of it. Go ahead and grab the Crash & Burn Cafe archive off the site too, GE is right. It'll remind you of the AH boards... alot. Even if it was before your time in AW, I found it fascinating to read the threads, the camp scores. Kind of gives me a sense of the ebb and flow of the game over the years, even before I became an active part of it.
Hope everyone had a great New Years' :salute
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