How long have you been in the DCS world?

[Mainstay]

I myself started back in the days of the 90's.

Still have all these boxes and CD's / DVD's in a box somewhere.

Blackshark was the first digital download for me.

 

[Rudel_chw]

31 minutes ago, Mainstay said:

I myself started back in the days of the 90's.

 

Sorry to nitpick, but the DCS World branding began on 2008, after the release of DCS:Blackshark.

[Ala13_ManOWar]

Actually, BS1 happened in 2009, A-10C in 2010, and DCS World (not called like that at first) started in 2011 when a patch made those two "modules", back then still independent games, compatible online between them.

 

Yes, day one here, but Flanker 2.5, Lock On, FC 1 and 2 where also around there.

[Rudel_chw]

11 minutes ago, Ala13_ManOWar said:

Actually, BS1 happened in 2009, A-10C in 2010, and DCS World (not called like that at first) started in 2011 when a patch made those two "modules", back then still independent games, compatible online between them.

 

According to this post, the DCS brand name was coined much earlier, on 2007:

 

 

[Ala13_ManOWar]

I'm sure it was, I'm just telling what happened while I was watching  . The inners of it are unknown to me. And probably the 2009 BS1, which I bought in a DVD, was released later in my country (~June 2009) than other places, which was still the usual back then (hard copies distribution and all). When it all started to be in the cloud and downloadable (2012 P-51 first actual module, only downloadable version available), it all started to be synchronized to us all, but until then it wasn't necessarily the case.

Edited June 8, 2024 by Ala13_ManOWar

[Mainstay]

2 hours ago, Rudel_chw said:

 

Sorry to nitpick, but the DCS World branding began on 2008, after the release of DCS:Blackshark.

Yes you are right but you know what i mean. The products that gave birth to all of this

I remember i bought Blackshark online the russian version first. No idea because i cant read russian so had to figure it all out by just clicking menu items....

Then i bought it again when the english version came out. The good old days  

 

Nostalgic menu

 

[MiG21bisFishbedL]

53 minutes ago, Mainstay said:

Yes you are right but you know what i mean. The products that gave birth to all of this

I remember i bought Blackshark online the russian version first. No idea because i cant read russian so had to figure it all out by just clicking menu items....

Then i bought it again when the english version came out. The good old days  

 

Nostalgic menu

 

Love that simplistic menu music.

I've been playing since DCS: Black Shark, which I got on a Steam sale in 2012, I believe. Then just got DCS World when I found out I could fly the KA-50 AND the A-10 in the same mission.

Edited June 8, 2024 by MiG21bisFishbedL

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

4 hours ago, Rudel_chw said:

Sorry to nitpick

You want to nitpick and didn't correct the grammar mistake?  

In any case, I've been here since the Flanker days as well.

[diego999]

I'm here since 2022. Do I win a rookie badge or something? 

[Mainstay]

We should ask ED for badges

2 hours ago, MiG21bisFishbedL said:

Love that simplistic menu music.

I've been playing since DCS: Black Shark, which I got on a Steam sale in 2012, I believe. Then just got DCS World when I found out I could fly the KA-50 AND the A-10 in the same mission.

 

O hell yeah! forgot about that music man that's awesome to hear again

[Beirut]

2017: Bought the A-10A. 

 

Still a cool plane. 

[freehand]

Long time, I have  2 or 3 ring bound manuals you could buy back in the day one is flaming cliffs another black shark think I have maybe flaming cliffs 3 ring bound also many lock on cds also for some reason one sealed I think lol. 

I will dig them out and take some pics maybe.

Edited June 9, 2024 by freehand

[Mr_sukebe]

Since 2016 with the Huey as my first module.

Have been sidetracked with playing games like BG3, but never for long.

[Pizzicato]

Since launch day for the original Flanker. I've basically been flight simming since the mid 80's, though, so I've played pretty much everything at one point or other.

[Beta Sokol]

24 years for me, playing this since Flanker 2.0. My first computer was on Windows ME, 1,7 Ghz and 60 GB harddrive...

( what a long time and still not bored of playing )

[Kang]

Quote

How long have you been in the DCS world?

The general consensus about me seems to be that it has been too long.

[Czar66]

I've been playing "this" "game" since Lock On.

On 6/8/2024 at 4:14 PM, MiG21bisFishbedL said:

Love that simplistic menu music.

Omg. I can actually taste the feel of going once again to the options menu to config a new binding to re learn the startup procedure. I haven't heard this song since DCS World actual debut. Potent memories there. Good times when we chosen the module of the sortie from the actual executable (A-10C or Black Shark) instead of in game.
 

[Mustang]

On 6/8/2024 at 3:51 PM, Mainstay said:

I myself started back in the days of the 90's.

Still have all these boxes and CD's / DVD's in a box somewhere.

Blackshark was the first digital download for me.

 

Ever since I had Broadband Internet (2001-ish onwards) good times.

[SVgamer72]

Su-27 Flanker (1995).

It's been a long road, and countless hours of study and fun.

[lazduc]

Back when they supplied manuals and programs on hard media.

[LuseKofte]

Ever since Lock on came about. But I was more into WW2. So I been absent in long periods until Huey came along. Then MI 8. After that I flown regularly. 

[Mainstay]

O I almost forgot about this… nostalgic 

[_Hoss]

Since LOMAC first came out.

[Silver_Dragon]

From Flanker times...

[LucShep]

Since 2005 when FC1 was released for LOMAC, following a review of it in good old SimHQ (here) which provoqued enough curiosity to make me get it.

I still wish more detailed reviews were put in articles out there, like those guys used to do.
But, at that time, it ran so bad on my PC and, as I was much more into WW2 warbirds (and sim-racing), other sim titles took my attention.

It was only later when I picked FC2, then DCS BlackShark and DCS A-10C (the standalone titles, not the modules) that I really got into the "modern" groove of DCS.
 

On 6/30/2024 at 4:45 AM, Mainstay said:

O I almost forgot about this… nostalgic 

Aaah good old ModMan!  Ricardo's cockpits were the bee's knees!

Edited July 2, 2024 by LucShep