Original Aces High

[horble]

Tried the internet wayback machine to find an earlier version but the earliest I could download was the last version of AH2

[BSB]

It was tough finding cons in Targetware.

Wow, someone else remembers Targetware besides me?  I was beginning to think I was the only one who flew Targetware and Aces High.    Icepac, fellow Targetware flyer.

[horble]

Wow, someone else remembers Targetware besides me?  I was beginning to think I was the only one who flew Targetware and Aces High.    Icepac, fellow Targetware flyer.

The Richtofen's Skies server was hosted from my dad's computer shop.

[Mongoose]

History lesson.  This is from a post made by Fugitive a few years ago.

https://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,403424.0.html

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HiTech post this once......

1. I played Air Warrior (was a +100 hrs a month junky)
2. I started playing with flight model physics and graphic programing (HTSIM).
3. I created in Confirmed Kill at night in 94 early 95. Had 2 partners in the business Killer (John  McQueen) and Gunjam (Robert Salinas)
4. We went live with Confirmed kill in May 95.
5. August 95 renamed CK to Warbirds.
6 3 years later we merged with iMagic (I.E. Wild Bill) and I lost control of WB.
7. By late 98 Bill was totally messing up the long term viability of the old company for many reasons (stock went from $14 to less then 1 cent).
8. I left and began work at home on AH.
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[mechanic]

Wow, someone else remembers Targetware besides me?  I was beginning to think I was the only one who flew Targetware and Aces High.    Icepac, fellow Targetware flyer.

Remember it well, never really got it to work properly. Don't think I ever managed to get multiplayer to function

[BSB]

The Richtofen's Skies server was hosted from my dad's computer shop.

How Cool! You must have been very involved in Targetware horble.  Any info on what happened to Targetware would be welcome. 

Salute to you Targetware Flyers.  <S> horble, mechanic..  I never flew in Richthofen’s skies, although I knew it existed.  I flew mostly Targetware Korea.  Jets that still used guns and were closely matched.  I liked fights between the F86 and Mig15.

[mechanic]

S! BSB

I want to say that the one I tried to play was called Target Rabaul. I was only 17 or so at the time. Found Aces High 1 pretty soon after and never looked back

[horble]

How Cool! You must have been very involved in Targetware horble.  Any info on what happened to Targetware would be welcome. 

Salute to you Targetware Flyers.  <S> horble, mechanic..  I never flew in Richthofen’s skies, although I knew it existed.  I flew mostly Targetware Korea.  Jets that still used guns and were closely matched.  I liked fights between the F86 and Mig15.

Mostly Richtofen’s Skies was put together by a bunch of old Dawn of Aces players, I’ve forgotten most of the names by now but I believe JoGunn took over being in charge from Vlasov. I was about 13 at the time and was the squeakiest squeaker to ever live lol but I did a very little bit of 3d modelling for it, I think the only thing I finished was a model for observation balloons to have over the front. I had a couple of planes I was working on but then a girl in my class came to school wearing white pants and I kind of lost track of cartoon airplanes for a few years..

I don't remember why Targetware fizzled out, I think the guy coding the engine may have fallen ill or even passed away.  I *think* his handle was 'sick' and the only other names that are coming back to me right now that were involved were yak and vadr.

Might have a poke around in the wayback machine and see if I can find anything else.

[qweqwe27th]

I don't remember why Targetware fizzled out, I think the guy coding the engine may have fallen ill or even passed away.  I *think* his handle was 'sick' and the only other names that are coming back to me right now that were involved were yak and vadr.

Yes, that's the coder sick who had developed Roger Wilco in the 90s. Sick suffered serious life issues and had to give up working on the Targetware. (your memory might be associated with the incident where he was assaulted at a metro station and didn't recover well for a while in the mid-2000s) Target Rabaul Dev team(yak, baders, peril) tried to revive the project a few occasions but little could be done for losing the wiz core coder.

rye, yt, BLOWHARD, popgirl, LoAmmo, spelchk, zabatt, olddog, kevdog, kiwi, archi, blackflie, fuzzy, silverdolly, wastel, raffel, rydog, oscoog, rebel, hawk, whwk, audi, aanvilsghost, lonewlf, tora, absinthe, sbubba, akitoshi, ryu, maestro, sakai, roppa, tiktok, stiglr, timbob, asmech, cabby, renard, columbo, lunchod, vonsho...

[Eagler]

Battlehawks 1942, SWOTL, Fighter Ace and then Aces High..

Thank goodness there was an article in PC Gamer about it in 2000 I think or I might have missed it

Eagler

[horble]

Yes, that's the coder sick who had developed Roger Wilco in the 90s. Sick suffered serious life issues and had to give up working on the Targetware. (your memory might be associated with the incident where he was assaulted at a metro station and didn't recover well for a while in the mid-2000s) Target Rabaul Dev team(yak, baders, peril) tried to revive the project a few occasions but little could be done for losing the wiz core coder.

rye, yt, BLOWHARD, popgirl, LoAmmo, spelchk, zabatt, olddog, kevdog, kiwi, archi, blackflie, fuzzy, silverdolly, wastel, raffel, rydog, oscoog, rebel, hawk, whwk, audi, aanvilsghost, lonewlf, tora, absinthe, sbubba, akitoshi, ryu, maestro, sakai, roppa, tiktok, stiglr, timbob, asmech, cabby, renard, columbo, lunchod, vonsho...

Thanks, I knew there was a reason development stopped but it had escaped me. I remember a lot of those names now that I see them again.

[BSB]

Thank you Horble and qweqwe27th for the information on Targetware.  Now I remember about the coder getting sick.  Qweqwe27th of all the names you listed stiglr stood out.  If my memory is correct he was a big evangelist for Targetware on several flight sim forums.

<S> Mechanic!  Yes Target Rabaul was the WWII Targetware mod.  Target Korea the Korean War mod and Richthofen’s sky’s the WWI mod.  I flew in Target Korea and Targetware Rabaul.  Mostly Korea,  I liked the jet matchup. 

Now I understand the group that brought us il2 is coming out with a Korean War sim sometime next year.  I am really looking forward to that.

[qweqwe27th]

Thank you Horble and qweqwe27th for the information on Targetware.  Now I remember about the coder getting sick.  Qweqwe27th of all the names you listed stiglr stood out.  If my memory is correct he was a big evangelist for Targetware on several flight sim forums.

Stiglr sure loved the Targetware, had strong opinions on all the flight-sims and actively expressed them everywhere. He has played AH and posted some on this forum too IIRC. There was Target Corregidor project(more focused on early war than Target Rabaul, using planes such as Ki-27, P-35) which he led on Targetwar but it never came out of alpha stage.