I got into it in Jan 1985 with Sublogic FS2 for the C64. Those were the days!
I didn't get Microsoft Flight Simulator until Ver 3 when I got my first PC (IBM 8088) a few years later. Then I've had every version since. I remember those days before sound cards. That horrible buzzing from the PC speaker!
Sad that the series didn't live to tell its own anniversary.
FS2 (then Sublogic) on AtariST was my first sim, and in fact my first computer game. I learned much of my first English by reading the manual. I'm still not sure if it was healthy for an 11 year old boy to find VOR-to-VOR navigation fun, though
I'm still amazed how they could fit the whole thing on a single 3.5" disk.
Sad that the series didn't live to tell its own anniversary.
FS2 (then Sublogic) on AtariST was my first sim, and in fact my first computer game. I learned much of my first English by reading the manual. I'm still not sure if it was healthy for an 11 year old boy to find VOR-to-VOR navigation fun, though
I'm still amazed how they could fit the whole thing on a single 3.5" disk.
The series would be horrified that it's last iteration was given away for free and didn't offer cockpits for half the aircraft.
Still, X-plane hasen't managed to catch up yet, so that's something :P
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1.0, oh the memories. Taking off from Meigs Field, going round the Hancock-Center and trying to land again. Or bombing stuff on the grid in the Sopwith Camel. Or the first flight from Boston to Washington (if I remember correctly), which lasted hours and so my sisters called me "mad and crazy". Nothing has changed so far...
I shudder to think how much cash I spent on the MSFS series, add-ons, and the hardware to fly it.
Thousands of dollars to be sure. Hell, a membership at FSGenesis cost me about $130, just for terrain elevation data.
Not to mention Ultimate Terrain, Ground Enviroment, Flight Environment, custom airfields, and all kinds of planes for FS9, and then all of it again for FSX.
I shudder to think how much cash I spent on the MSFS series, add-ons, and the hardware to fly it.
Thousands of dollars to be sure. Hell, a membership at FSGenesis cost me about $130, just for terrain elevation data.
Not to mention Ultimate Terrain, Ground Enviroment, Flight Environment, custom airfields, and all kinds of planes for FS9, and then all of it again for FSX.
Oh my...
Yeah but compared to actual flying costs and I am sure FSX + Payware is still a great deal (at least that is what I tell myself )
I started with Microprose Solo Flight on C64 before moving onto Sublogic FS2 on IBM PC:
So I am continually amazed by how awesome FSX + Payware addons is... nothing less than amazing... happy B-Day Flight Simulator!
Good memories indeed. I spent a lot of time with the original FS in 1986 and again in the late '80's on an IBM clone. Along with Microprose's F15 SE (C-64/128 version), those were my flight sims. The most fun I had with FS was flying out of the grid WWI zone, over the mountains into the Ether...flying for several minutes until discovering a clone of the grid but with something always a bit different...spooky. Now (oh gawd..is it really 30 years??) I'm recently hooked back into civvy simming with FSX and addicted to Air Hauler.
Currently dabbling in; WOTR/BoF, Naval Action! also Run 8, IL2BOS/BOM
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Sublogic Flight Sim for C64 F15 Strike Eagle for C64 Flight Simulator for Atari ST FS 2000 for PC 2002, 2004. not a fan of FSX.
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