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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: NOD2000 on January 29, 2003, 09:47:41 PM
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I was just wondering if you guys remember the first time you got off the ground in a flight simulator?
i remember the first time i pulled a plane off the ground in a virtual world. It was a C-hog and i pulled up got swerved to the left (by torque), (right towards the tower) did a half roll and smaked the tower blowing up. I remember thinking "this is pathetic I get off the ground finally, and the tower acts like a freaking magnet" i think i hit various things at my next twenty attempts. Then i finally got the hang of it and thinking "wow, every time i shoot someone my plane breaks in half, WHERE IN THE F* AM I GETTING SHOT FROM" it ended up being ks:rolleyes:
Tell stories of your first flights on flight sims if you remember them.
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Ground? X-wings come out of hyperspace, not the ground silly.
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A Commodore 64 computer and Microsoft's first edition of flight simulator. It was even *worse* back then. It even had this WWI scenario which was equally horrible. :D
A few years later Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe made it's way into my hands, and WW2 aviation has been a passion since.
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Dambuster on colecovision, about the early 80s if I remember. That was a sweet sim.
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Air Warrior AOL with a mouse. I don't remember exactly what plane it was and I don't remember if I actually made it off the ground :) I *do* remember grabbing a B17 later on, signing on a few gunners, and actually rtb'ing. It was so simple back in the day... it was a hoot!
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Same as Vor, C64 and MS flight simulator, and I agree, really bad WWI simulator.
The game that made me going was Aces of the pacific, that was awesome, I think that one was on my Commodore Amiga 500, but am not shure.(this is a looong time ago)
Lasse
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Originally posted by NOD2000
I was just wondering if you guys remember the first time you got off the ground in a flight simulator?
Sure, 1969 in a F86 flight simulator. There wasn't a transistor in the beast - all servo mechanisms and tubes (triodes & etc.)
We don't have a flight simulator in AH - we have a game. :)
curly
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AirWarrior.
First online flight--took off from A-81 in a Spit 9 (yes even I started life as a spit dweeb :) ), shot down a JU-88 and a P-51, then landed. I remember that sortie better than ones last week.
Ahh, my first ever online kill was a P-51 while I was in a Spit 9....my last online kill in AW was a Spit 9 while I was in a P-51.....guess I came full circle :)
J_A_B
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Originally posted by Octavius
Air Warrior AOL with a mouse. I don't remember exactly what plane it was and I don't remember if I actually made it off the ground :) I *do* remember grabbing a B17 later on, signing on a few gunners, and actually rtb'ing. It was so simple back in the day... it was a hoot!
lol Oct it was AW at EA for me and also with a mouse :(
Knew it from back in the "their finest hour" flight (SIM)
Flew 1 week before i figured out man u maybe should try a joystick :)
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1980 on a ibm machine with a tiny jstick. not shure what the name of it was but it was all green vector graphics. was lost that day.
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I had been playing AW some time before I tried flying myself. Until then, I had only ever gunned bombers or driven vehicles, thinking I would never be able to fly - it was too complicated! :eek: I only started playing anyway because my husband (Zeb) did and I thought it looked fun. :)
Then one Squad Night, they were all upping in fighters and I was left on the ground hoping that soon someone would take a bomber I could gun. Then someone asked why I didn't try to take one myself. Zeb agreed and helped me choose the plane - an F6 I think - set the fuel load and take off..... I remember getting into the air easy enough and thinking "this isn't too bad after all".... of course, landing was another matter! It was sometime later I started flying the B17 and decided to specialise in bombing.... :)
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By Curly's definition, it was the T4 simulator at the zoo in 1998. But for what NOD was going for, it was AH (yup, my one and only) in '99, flying in the TA on mouse and keyboard under a different handle. Don't know what I was trying to fly, but I do remember Mav13 helping me out and teaching me a little bit of the basics.
Mav, if you're still out there!
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Air Warrior in 1989-90 era was the first store bought flight sim..I had one of those little itsy bitsy joysticks with no buttons, it was more like a 2" metal rod with a while plastic cap on the end. Soon after I bought SWOTL, still the best flight sim I've personally ever enjoyed, probably because all of it was so amazing!
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Chuck Yeagers Air racing on an Apple II. I was so excited to fly this thing until I realized I was only getting about 2 fps on it. It was total unflyable. Course at the time I was about 10 year old and didn't know beans about computers.
My first online kill was in AW2 in the training arena. I flew for about a week in the TA getting completely smoked. I finally managed to saddle up on some poor bastage. As I shot him down, I wondered why he made no attempt to evade.
Then I got the message on the text buffer...
"Way to shoot down my glider dweeb"
heheheh, he had no engine I didn't care, my first kill, I was hooked. I then proceeded to rack up about $400 dollars on my ISP the next month....
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LHX , the tilt-rotor (osprey?) was fun to fly. It was a pretty advanced game in it's day, you needed a 286 and a CGA video card. Front windshield would even show a bullet hole and a crack if you got a pilot wound. Your pilot woulkd go in and out of conciousness and eventually plane would control funny then you would die and crash. This is way back in the 1980's guys :)
You know somewhere I think I still have that game on a floppy disk somewhere.
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First offline experiance: Enjoying the wonderful raphics of X-Wing while shooting TIE's with my "fart lasers."
First online: Air Warrior. Actually got off the ground on my first attempt (RR) but ended up PNG'ing myself for shooting friendly aircraft... they didnt like me for awhile - then I figured out how to use the radio and explained my dilema. :D
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Originally posted by maxtor
LHX , the tilt-rotor (osprey?) was fun to fly. It was a pretty advanced game in it's day, you needed a 286 and a CGA video card. Front windshield would even show a bullet hole and a crack if you got a pilot wound. Your pilot woulkd go in and out of conciousness and eventually plane would control funny then you would die and crash. This is way back in the 1980's guys :)
You know somewhere I think I still have that game on a floppy disk somewhere.
LHX, Light Helicopter experimental. I still have it on disk. The game also had the blackhawk and the osprey. Lots of different missions to choose from. But could you kill all the camels and nothing else and rtb?
First flight sim was Microsoft, way old DOS version.
First Helicopter sim was Apache. ( A FF rocket placed in an open door of a Hind will bring it down)
AW dos off line, then AW on AOL, then every flight game I could get my hands on.
afool
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1980 on a ibm machine with a tiny jstick. not shure what the name of it was but it was all green vector graphics. was lost that day.
Same here except that I don't remember having the luxury of a JS. The "game" was the original version of MS Flight Sim. Frame rate was something like 2. Flew a 172.
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Originally posted by afool
LHX, Light Helicopter experimental. I still have it on disk. The game also had the blackhawk and the osprey. Lots of different missions to choose from. But could you kill all the camels and nothing else and rtb?
First flight sim was Microsoft, way old DOS version.
First Helicopter sim was Apache. ( A FF rocket placed in an open door of a Hind will bring it down)
AW dos off line, then AW on AOL, then every flight game I could get my hands on.
afool
I liked the land and rescue missions. You would have to shoot (or sneak) your way in and out while dodging SAM and ZSU tracks and Russian Jets. You would go to some facility shoot up the defenses then land and pick up prisioners and rtb again. Was about as fun as any game I ever played actually :)
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My first flightsim was the SubLogic Flight Simulator on a TRS-80.
My first online flightsim was DOS AW. I started in the RR arena, and remember thinking, "it seems like slow motion". I flew one sortie there, then switched to FR.
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Atari 2600 dogfight.
U could also fly multiple drones and drive a tank and play pong on it.
Very cutting edge stuff....
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My first flightsim was the SubLogic Flight Simulator on a TRS-80.
Mine too, but on an Atari 800XL. I still have it.
ra
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My first flight sim was Air Warrior the good looking one...or atleast as I remember it bein good looking...
Dont rember first time..but remember putting a 5 speed fan next to my seat and setting it at 1 on take off 2 when im in the air and 5 when im going realy realy fast...
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Microprose's F117 on the PC. it had 256 colors so cute...
oh wait, I think the first sim I played was LHX-cool CGA graphics :)
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Not sure was either F-15 strike eagle (air starts in that game) or Falcon on the Atari 1040ST, back in 87.
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udet you should have played F-19...F-117's predecessor.
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SWOTL
I remember thinking, "Wouldn't it be great to fly with other real people." Then I started hearing about CK. I lurked around waiting for the game to get affordable and a little more playable.
1st month in WB was about $200.
1st kill, ahhhh I can see the pixels now. What a great feeling.
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My 1st flight on the computer was Air Warrior..OFFLINE! No way could I have afforded the price to pay Genie to fly online like the OTHER FOOLS! I was in a P-51 (I had just finished Yeager's autobio, and I really wanted to fly th P51). It wasn't until a couple of years later, after AW moved to AOL, that I was able to fly online. Talk about being a confused newbie. I helped define the term, I think.
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Originally posted by maxtor
I liked the land and rescue missions. You would have to shoot (or sneak) your way in and out while dodging SAM and ZSU tracks and Russian Jets. You would go to some facility shoot up the defenses then land and pick up prisioners and rtb again. Was about as fun as any game I ever played actually :)
Played those too. After playing every mission about a 1000 times, I would take the blackhawk and fly with only 1 engine, pretending it was a UH1 Huey. I would do the same with the LHX, pretending it was a AH-1 Cobra. The ospery... could never fly it on one engine very well.
afool
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I top you all ;)
First flight was on a Sinclair ZX81, Psion Flight simulator, - 16K, year 1981/82
Later moved on to ZX Spectrum, where my favourite was Fighter Pilot, Nightflite II, and Spitfire 40.
First proper one was Aces over The Pacific in 1993 though, cool sim.
Then onto Airwarrior offline, and then Warbirds online, but since they vulched my credit card I resigned. Found AH soon thereafter and got Liberated ;)
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F15 Strike Eagle on the Apple IIC. offline.
DOS AW1 on the GEnie System online.
My first up I took a 109 and was killed so fast that I thought there was something wrong with my system, so I went up again. This time I got to the end of the run way and was wacked again.
Since I had this water mellon sized head full of Ego, I went up yet again from the same base. This time I saw an A26 circling the field, he did a half split and came in on my high six. Then BOOM! back to the HQ. Frenchy (the AW one) was vulching in a gunned vader. My first string of text that I saw in AW was "Se La Vie, Se La Geir" or something like that.....Frenchy's Kill macro. Took me a long time to get my Online wings out of a wringer. Had a ton of fun though.