How many here are "long-timers".

[WldThing]

Genie days...  Around $800 a month, fricken ludicrous, but god was it fun..

And I still vaguely play..

[talontrailers]

First flight sim I played was I believe called Jet on franklin apple IIe machines then later I played on an amiga which I believe was Jet 2? but we had troubles with the boards.
Aside from arcades and nintendo I didn't get into pc flight sims until AW3 in about august of 1999. I believe I went under the name of psycho.

When ea gave AW3 the boot I think I tried warbirds for a day or 2 and I tried AH around late 2001 for a week or two.

Decided to come back and get into it again last year and then again finally this year.

bluetalon

[Boxboy]

Originally posted by Raven3353
You bunch of noobs are making me feel way too old. I was Rave ::IAF:: cpid 3353 late 93 on GEnie and paying the big bucks. I remember Vortex and especially (ready for a flashback bud?) his CO Athos and the rest of the Musketeers, as well as vaguely remembering Nobaddy, Grits and Lone Wolf.

Started with the old Microprose like some of the other "old timers" and did h2h on Falcon 3.0 quite a bit back then. Here's a short list for the Nostalgic... (Vortex actually took this Camp off so the rest of us could get some kills, and to thank him, I left his rank that camp off)

Nobaddy...were you cpid 5553? Lone Wolf...cpid 220?

Been off for a long while, but thinking to get going again...

FINAL SCORES - AIR WARRIOR

CAMPAIGN 102 - December 10, 1993 - January 7, 1994


Arena 1 Individual Scores:

Fighter Scores as of Fri Jan  7 14:35:55 1994
Rank   Score  Country  Ship  Handle                   Mail
   1   601745    B     4233 Greycap      JG 54          R.STATHAM
   2   578797    A     6540 ^ZYfly^ -AW-                R.FULTON2
   3   489117    A     3988 Splash ::IAF::                M.MCGOWEN
   4   478008    B     3488 Phantom      JG 54         G.SMITH14
   5   402224    C      565 Tarkus SL/FL-I **BS**   M.SPENCER3
   6   359863    A     4717 TOMCAT ::IAF::              T.BIFULCO
   7   359835    A     3822 +-}--Hell-----*XO*         S.SARKISIAN1
   8   350662    B     3422 Doom         JG 54           M.HOBUSS
   9   305829    A      937 IconoClast                      S.FORBEN
  10   272530    C     4989 ToMMnatr>FUBAR XO< T.CHRISTIE1
  11   227445    B     5769 Shark        JG 54           L.RABURN
  12   214049    C     4419 Rasta CO Black Sheep  C.MENDOZA
  13   207039    A     3353 Rave       ::IAF::            R.DURHAM
  14   203708    B     4276 COLORADO     JG 54      D.WILLIAMS4
  15   201549    A     4219 Hidalgo ::IAF::              R.CAVOLA
  16   185342    B     3683 Proteous     JG 54         D.VANDERWAL1
  17   179743    B     5826 Joker -UFO- BL              J.SAMACICIA
  18   173010    B     4243 BADER                          M.FALLON1
  19   168083    B     6422 maque                         G.MACDONALD7
  20   161005    A     2268 RamDog   *XO* JG26   P.HARGETT
  21   155554    B     6064 Rip          JG 54             T.BURMEISTER
  22   153263    C     6008 PropWash L/FL-B **BS**   R.SIMPSON11
  23   137309    B     5017 Gator        JG 54           J.KIMMERLY1
  24   137022    B     2819 Der Bubba    JG 54       J.KENNEDY15
  25   130264    A     5842 +-}--PRIMATE-------      M.MCMANUS1
  26   125880    C     5545 Buzzard                       F.GOSS
  27   124198    B     6687 Submission -UFO- A     G.SIEVERS
  28   123544    C     4781 BigJim LtCol FL-C**BS**  J.HARRISON32
  29   119921    A     6609 +-}--ATHOS------         VALHALLA
  30   113805    C     3843 Sabre                         R.TIMBLIN1

             6913    A     6533 -)-Vortex---            

Arena 1 - Team Scores:

Country   Missions    Kills   Fighter/Bomber Pnts   Planes Lost
   A       13206      6882    5379288/4594171         9322
   B       11893      6925    5727542/2612135         7917
   C       13085      6407    3927892/1322323         9839

Fighter Squadrons as of Fri Jan  7 14:35:55 1994
    Score       Squad       Name
 3021686  5910  JG 54 "The Green Hearts"
 1735641  4374  Imperial Air Force ::IAF::
  850554   4419  Black Sheep <>
  771716   6609  +-}--MUSKETEERS-----
  699230   5191  UFO
  555809   565   <>
  405776   1443  BLACK SHEEP <>
  405203   4937  JG26 (Abbeville Boys)
  345854   5894  FUBARS   13   207039    A     3353 Rave       ::IAF::            R.DURHAM

Crap I was 28th that camp as my old handle Bigjim lol, but that list sure brought back memories

[Xjazz]

Started simming with Flight Unlimited and combat simming with Su-27 at 1997.  
Did some offline/LAN h2h with WB2.7*(?).
Finally AH1 subscription at 2000-2001.

[Vulcan]

Originally posted by straffo
I remember the time when duelling was made flipping a book

LOL straffo I remember playing those. Friend had a spitfire vs 109 set.

[moot]

The first plane game I had was Sopwith Camel.  The next one was Chuck Yeager's Air Combat on Mac.  I copied that to the school's computer lab Macs asap.
Later I tried MS' Flight Simulators, Novalogic's F22, and a few other offline games but they weren't that fun.

I found out about online WWII dogfight sims in a game magazine, at around the time IEN aquired Warbirds (or something like that).  The multiplayer action screenshots had me drooling already.  I couldn't play at the time (too expensive from out in the countryside where I was), but around sometime in 1998, I flew in WBs, Dawn of Aces, and that space game in which it was impossible to get any sense of depth to dogfight with.

In summer 2000 I finaly tried AH after having heard about it from CavemanJ (remember #ezgtchat?).  I somehow only found out about the forum a year or two later.
The first squad I joined was Straffo's.  What was it called?

[DamnedRen]

AW Genie days when it was delphi, genie and cris. I came on through cris. $3.99 an hour but dropped to $1.99 towards the end.

Moved to AoHell Beta before the demise of the Genie AW. In fact, I let a bud use my cris account for the final frog auger of Genie AW as he had already closed his account and was doing beta and training on the PC side of AoHell. I ended up on the Mac side as trainer. He was one of the original plank holders for AW.

Worked as trainer on Mac side for years and went over to the pc side after Aohell and continued there as a trainer ini gamestorm til its end.

Our Squad moved to AH, en masse, (I think 30+ moved over at one time with more coming in until we had somewhere around 76 guys up) at the demise of EA AW. We had a few already in game from the beta but most came in around Tour 14 or 15.

Still trying ta help new guys get started after all these years. I must be a glutton for punishment.

[Mark Luper]

I've been messing with flying computers since I bought my apple IIe and a sublogic flight simulator. That was an interesting one, bunch of lines and a ton of imagination.
Next was a 386dx PC and red baron and ms flight simulator 4. I bought all those new but don't really remember the years. My first online sim was WarBirds 1.12 if I remember correctly. $2.00 an hour. I couldn't see how HTC could make a profit on just $29.95 a month when they started Aces High. They did though...

Word.

Mark

[Brooke]

Howdy, GB and 715.  GB, good to see you registered for Der Grosse Schlag!

And howdy to WildThing.

I remember WT well from the early 90's, as he was involved in the process of my skill going from dweeb level to decent.  I had started playing AW in campaign #1 in the late 80's, but wasn't very good and didn't play much until the early 90's.  He was around pretty late many nights, and he was willing to fight me again and again and again during some of those times when there weren't many people up.  After a lot of this, I became quite good at dogfighting.

So, thanks, WT.

[straffo]

Originally posted by Vulcan
LOL straffo I remember playing those. Friend had a spitfire vs 109 set.

I had camel versus DRI (I think) and it was fun  

The first squad I joined was Straffo's.  What was it called?

341 Alsace (or something like that) ?

[Brooke]

Originally posted by straffo
I had camel versus DRI (I think) and it was fun  

 
341 Alsace (or something like that) ?

That was a great game for its day!  Each player had a book of views, with maneuvers at the bottom and corresponding page numbers.  You'd pick a maneuver, tell your opponent a page number, and he would tell you a page number.  You'd go to that page, pick your maneuver and go to a result page number, as would your opponent to see how that move worked out.  It was called "Ace of Aces" in the US.

[dhaus]

Started in AW somewhere around '98.  Joined the 367th (formerly flaming chickens) in RR Euro.  Don't know if any of them, other than scud, are still around.  Stopped about a month before EA took it down.  Didn't get here until June of 2005.

[kevykev56]

AOL Air Warrior 1996...  


Taken one 2 year break, and now on my second break... 1 year so far... RL can be crap sometimes.

[Balsy]

AW on AOL somewhere in 96.. stayed through till it was shut down by EA

Balsy always with the exception of =BAL= which I flew under with =HOP= AND =MAL= and I cant even remember the name of the squadron..

I remember the 600mph d9 dives with devi33 in AW, and the awsome f4u versus ki84 fites.

10 years.. nah.. can it really be??

Whels and I would fly side by side to get absolutely equal e states than separate for 'duels'.

DANO was the man in the a8, and I specifically remember the generally all around hatred for a guy named -PAL and his p51 pick and runstang.

I guess Im one of the dumb ones that doesnt leave when market research says I should.

Balsy

[Jackal1]

Started in early days of AW. Haven`t looked back since.