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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: kavo on January 06, 2016, 02:58:12 PM
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I recall the early game prior to aceshigh ...i dont recall its name. I also recall that the troop planes were either c47 or junkers and you could drop commandos near airbases to do their dirty deeds. You needed two or three commando drops to deal with a large field.
My point is,it was a cool feature that meant the goon and junkers could be used or so much more than it is now. You could drop commandos with a dot command before release within a set distance of the base. You then left them to it and did other things until you got a message that they had finished or been killed by an observant enemy.
I liked that...it was fun and brought a further dimension to the game.
It still needs sheep tho ! :old:
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And the Brewster withdrawing from the game :old:
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I was Qwikthink in Fighter Ace.
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What game are we talking about here?
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Sounds like WB to me. C47 and Ju52. I remember being able to send your drones to drop troops at other bases. Last I checked it's still going with almost 20 people on during primetime. ;)
Wiley.
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Sounds like WB to me. C47 and Ju52. I remember being able to send your drones to drop troops at other bases. Last I checked it's still going with almost 20 people on during primetime. ;)
Wiley.
I wrote that game over 20 years ago now.
HiTech
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I remember the first time I played WB 2.7xx. I'd flown every box sim game since the B17 on the Intellivision, and thought I'd found heaven, and decided I'd not be leaving my home office ever again, other than to eat/sleep.
Shortly thereafter, while working on the QA team for a game called Rainbow 6 (the first one), another player heard me extolling the virtues of this Warbirds game, and how incredible it was. He mentioned that some of the same people who created it had split off and were making an even better variant, and it was in beta, called Aces High.
Mind. Blown.
What screwed with my head the most wasn't how much better AH was than the current WB, in every area, from graphics, to view systems, controls, whatever - it was the tiny size of the download. I forget exactly how large the client was for the beta then, but it seemed impossible for such a game to come out of such a small sized file.
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Version 1.04 Patch 2 was a download of just over 11MB's.
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I followed HT and Pyro here from Warbirds, played Warbirds from the beta (had that funny name turns out someone else was using and they changed it).
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And let's not forget Dawn of Aces. :D You could play in 2D if your PC couldn't handle 3D.
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I wrote that game over 20 years ago now.
HiTech
1 of these days I should send you my WB disc and have you sign it for me!
It was just too expensive for me to play online,the hourly cost and then the long distance charge on top of the exchange rate and I think it was about 40 bucks an hour!!!
So I had to settle for offline play,when I first saw AH at 30 bucks a month,I thought it was a steal!!!! :aok
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1 of these days I should send you my WB disc and have you sign it for me!
It was just too expensive for me to play online,the hourly cost and then the long distance charge on top of the exchange rate and I think it was about 40 bucks an hour!!!
So I had to settle for offline play,when I first saw AH at 30 bucks a month,I thought it was a steal!!!! :aok
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$30 a month dang lol
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I don't think WarBirds ever had an hourly cost? Did it? I thought it was monthly? I know that Air Warrior did: that was $6/hr and I had to pay an extra $6/hr long distance to reach their POP number.
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Hey, Zach, how about $1500/month? I knew some people in the days of Air Warrior (which charged by the hour) who ran up such bills in today's dollars. :uhoh
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Zach, the Canadian dollar made that 57 a month until the price dropped. Compared to previous hourly rates as stated, that was a steal.
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I don't think WarBirds ever had an hourly cost? Did it? I thought it was monthly? I know that Air Warrior did: that was $6/hr and I had to pay an extra $6/hr long distance to reach their POP number.
You may be right,it could have been AW! I have copies of both games and it was over 20 years ago so I might have mixed them up.
Either way the cost was prohibitive for me at the time,I had to settle for playing in "the Zone" which was an old MS setup. I couldnt even get AOL at the time without paying long distance charges... :furious :furious Besides n one would want to give CC info out to the net back then,it was a scary new thing.... :D
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I don't think WarBirds ever had an hourly cost? Did it? I thought it was monthly? I know that Air Warrior did: that was $6/hr and I had to pay an extra $6/hr long distance to reach their POP number.
When I 1st subscribed to WB's vers 2.01 in 8-'98 the subscription was a flat rate (can't remember the amount now but it wasn't exactly cheap....the $30.00 fee sounds familiar) for the 1st 10 hours of online gameplay then every hour online after that was $2.00 per hr.........I DO remember that.
:D
Used to come home from work, go online, play all evening and night then shut down and get dressed to go to work the next morning.....for days at any 1 stretch of time & was common for me to be paying $200.00+\month bills back in them days and was the HAPPIEST camper around (probably the largest contributor as to why I have carpal tunnel in both wrists today).
:joystick: :old: :aok
I have not bought a box game of ANY sort since then as I had found the type of game that I've always wanted to play.....a WWII flight combat simulated game playing against other HUMANS using "real simulated" flight controls w/ planes using "real aerodynamics"...."real stick and rudder flying mono vs mono"...........
I still carry a WB's subscription to this day along w/ a subscription to AH as I love the game GENRE this much so I support them both and they both do come in handy when you run into boring stretches in gameplay in 1 game I have the luxury to switch to the other game for a while and this has kept it fresh for me over the last 18+ yrs..........
So Hitech, it's your fault (well not your fault per se but you most certainly DID present a HIGH amount of influence in the matter) that I had to go thru bariatric surgery recently to lose enough weight to stay healthy enough (and to comfortably reach all my controls in my "cockpit"... :D ;) in my older fast approaching years) so's I can keep on playing this here hobby of mine for a few more years, Lord willing...............
:aok :rock
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So Hitech, it's your fault (well not your fault per se but you most certainly DID present a HIGH amount of influence in the matter) that I had to go thru bariatric surgery recently to lose enough weight to stay healthy enough (and to comfortably reach all my controls in my "cockpit"... :D ;) in my older fast approaching years) so's I can keep on playing this here hobby of mine for a few more years, Lord willing...............
You just made me think of this sunday. A gentleman a few hangars down said I could fly his lit toot.So to first familiarize myself I got in the cockpit. The procedure to enter the airplane for a 6' 4" guys is not a simple thing.
Step 1 stand on left wing and put your back against top wing, and put right foot in cockpit.
Step 2 bend your slef around the back of the wing so standing with right foot in cock pit .
Step 3 bring left foot in cock pit standing on seat.
Step 4 reach under top wing to grab cross braise and slide on in and find out both sides hit your shoulders.
Can't wait to fly it, but a little nervous about getting claustrophobic before take off.
(http://www.eaa.org/en/eaa/aviation-communities-and-interests/homebuilt-aircraft-and-homebuilt-aircraft-kits/kits-and-plans/h---l/~/media/84e9bdd5cb0146c0a2c4d5df0dffaed3.ashx?la=en&h=143&w=230)
(http://www.littletootbiplane.com/images/N61G%20with%20Stan%20Graham1.JPG)
HiTech
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Sweet!
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For some reason I remember AH being $30 a month in the early days .... did I dream that ?
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You may be right,it could have been AW! I have copies of both games and it was over 20 years ago so I might have mixed them up.
Either way the cost was prohibitive for me at the time,I had to settle for playing in "the Zone" which was an old MS setup. I couldnt even get AOL at the time without paying long distance charges... :furious :furious Besides n one would want to give CC info out to the net back then,it was a scary new thing.... :D
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I think it was somewhere in the mid to late 90s when I thought there had to be something like this out there and went looking. I can't remember which one I found, likely would've been AW or WBs, but it was hourly at the time and I knew I'd be homeless in a year if I got it.
Was restricted to single player flight simming for quite a while.
Wiley.
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Was it 30 years ago that I was running out to the mailbox to get the telephone bill before the wife could see it? There were many $600.00 months while playing early Air Warrior.
AW was the first computer game I ever played, on the first computer i ever owned. I hooked it up, turned it on, created an AOL account then did a search for "Flying Game". 17 hours later the download completed and I turned it on to my amazement.
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Was it 30 years ago that I was running out to the mailbox to get the telephone bill before the wife could see it? There were many $600.00 months while playing early Air Warrior.
AW was the first computer game I ever played, on the first computer i ever owned. I hooked it up, turned it on, created an AOL account then did a search for "Flying Game". 17 hours later the download completed and I turned it on to my amazement.
Hmm this sound very familiar. Except I had no wife. For me was because there was a flyer for genie in the box with the modem I purchased.
Ahh those xmodem zmodem days.
HiTech
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I have not bought a box game of ANY sort since then as I had found the type of game that I've always wanted to play.....a WWII flight combat simulated game playing against other HUMANS using "real simulated" flight controls w/ planes using "real aerodynamics"...."real stick and rudder flying mono vs mono"...........
Word! :aok
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........times have changed for the better then lol :banana:
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It was warbirds wiley.... youre quite correct. Hitech created an early masterpiece. The commando feature was good ....perhaps it could be considered again. I still spent most of my time burning in my plane in warbirds ao nothing changed there.
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I love the idea of dropping troops that can de-ack a base. Makes more close air support missions. Last night the 49rs were working to take a base, which included killing goons and straffing troops. It took me back a few years. Awesome fights.
Funny, I died more than I killed last night and I could care less. The whole event was awesome
boo
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I wrote that game over 20 years ago now.
HiTech
Your Old :old: :salute
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I haven't seen the zeppellin since DOA 1.0.
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In '97 I joined a RL WW2 group, Fantasy Flight, who flew real T-6's and a C-45 to airshows. Several of them were Warbirds enthusiasts so I joined up and flew as GronK in the "Buccaneers" squadron. We flew for realism and since we were all local we used conference calling to communicate real time. The charges (hourly if I recall corrrectly) were enough to put a big dent in my financial situation! When AH Beta started for free we moved as a squadron.
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I had been playing aw for a while somebody told me about wardbirds. I downloaded it, took like forever on aol. i upped an airplane took one flight, the graphics were so much better than aw, but it was a bit harder to fly. I ended up getting killed within like 2 minutes of taking off. logged off and deleted the game. went back to aw :).
semp
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Version 1.04 Patch 2 was a download of just over 11MB's.
This is why I didn't download it for the first few months after I saw it on 3DFiles, I remember thinking, 11MB?, can't be any good!!
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I used windows 95 "backup" to put warbirds 1.04 spanning across 12 floppies.
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I used windows 95 "backup" to put warbirds 1.04 spanning across 12 floppies.
There are people reading this that have no idea what you are talking about. "Floppies", what's a "floppies"?
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I spent many years in WB.