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I was a child on a Commodore 64 with Flight Simulator. Before school one morning I took off from Chicago, leveled off, and pointed my cesna towards my city - Ne

I was a child on a Commodore 64 with Flight Simulator. Before school one morning I took off from Chicago, leveled off, and pointed my cesna towards my city - New Orleans. When I got home, to my surprise, it was some 50 - 100 miles away. I took it in for a landing and... nothing. Nothing happens. Still, that was the best nothingness and I remember it to this day. Looking forward to this version. Addendum: When my parents took me to purchase my first pc - an ITT XTRA, I got to choose one piece of software to take home with it. Of course it was MS Flight Simulator.

JoeDaDude 7y ago
I had a few friends that all owned MSFS back in DOS days. We used to speculate about flying NY to LA which would have required a refueling stop in Chicago. One guy finally did it. He left the PC running all night and when the plane arrived near LA, the disk drive spun up loading scenery and it woke him up in the wee hours of the night.
tartoran 7y ago
Ah, those days when I was young and there was this veil of mystery to computers I still remember those days. When I was in school my mind was at the sinclair spectrum clone I had at home back then. I remember a similar story on a flight simulator where I was expecting to discover something mapped from the real world and was not aware how limited the simulators were. The mystery was real
gamedna 7y ago
I was introduced to MS Flight Simulator at the same time as my first "PC", the IBM PC jr. Your description of "nothingness" hits home quite well. Take off was scheduled from boston each night after dinner. Before bed, level off and head towards LAX. Wake up in the morning to find nothing, and nowhere. Rushing home from school to frantically try various radio frequencies until I could find the location on the included maps. This went on for months, because most days the computer would be shut off by my parents before leaving for school. It would happen that there was one magical day when the plane touched down at LAX, taxied off the runway, and the bliss of pure silence was gifted when the engines were cut off. Such is an amazing thing.
mercer 7y ago
Wow, that was a wave of nostalgia. As a younger lad it was a fun game to fly to specific destinations just to see if they were modeled in-game. as I upgraded my flight simulator versions, more and more stuff got added, and it was so much fun to find a location with actual 3D models!

JoeDaDude 7y ago

I had a few friends that all owned MSFS back in DOS days. We used to speculate about flying NY to LA which would have required a refueling stop in Chicago. One guy finally did it. He left the PC running all night and when the plane arrived near LA, the disk drive spun up loading scenery and it woke him up in the wee hours of the night.

tartoran 7y ago

Ah, those days when I was young and there was this veil of mystery to computers I still remember those days. When I was in school my mind was at the sinclair spectrum clone I had at home back then. I remember a similar story on a flight simulator where I was expecting to discover something mapped from the real world and was not aware how limited the simulators were. The mystery was real

gamedna 7y ago

I was introduced to MS Flight Simulator at the same time as my first "PC", the IBM PC jr. Your description of "nothingness" hits home quite well. Take off was scheduled from boston each night after dinner. Before bed, level off and head towards LAX. Wake up in the morning to find nothing, and nowhere. Rushing home from school to frantically try various radio frequencies until I could find the location on the included maps. This went on for months, because most days the computer would be shut off by my parents before leaving for school. It would happen that there was one magical day when the plane touched down at LAX, taxied off the runway, and the bliss of pure silence was gifted when the engines were cut off. Such is an amazing thing.

mercer 7y ago

Wow, that was a wave of nostalgia. As a younger lad it was a fun game to fly to specific destinations just to see if they were modeled in-game. as I upgraded my flight simulator versions, more and more stuff got added, and it was so much fun to find a location with actual 3D models!