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When I bought the original Compaq Portable in 1984 the first commerical program I purchased was the Microsoft Flight Simulator, and it was stunning to have that
by W-Stool 6y ago
When I bought the original Compaq Portable in 1984 the first commerical program I purchased was the Microsoft Flight Simulator, and it was stunning to have that running at home. It is amazing that this is still around and what progress in simulation and graphics have been made in all this time.
- rbanffy 6y agoI had it on my Apple II. It was made by Sublogic. Microsoft sold the PC version and Sublogic sold all others. Later Microsoft acquired the company. I also had the first EGA version.
- elihu 6y agoThat explains something I've wondered about. I have memories of playing something that looked like Microsoft Flight Simulator once with some friends of the family on some kind of Atari computer. I think we were trying to fly under the Golden Gate bridge, as one does. It didn't make sense that we were running a Microsoft program on an Atari computer.
- W-Stool 6y agoBruce Artwick was the brains behind Sublogic back in the day. He authored an excellent book on interactive computer graphics as well around the same time. I wonder what he's doing now?
- jhbadger 6y agoUnfortunately he's been shut out of the current version. And is selling/has sold his southern Illinois mansion. Although that might not be really due to financial stress but that a nearly seventy year old man may not need such a large house. https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/housing/mahomet-mansion-once-listed-for-14-9-million-can-now-be-yours-for-1-9/article_b885bc45-fb07-5ae7-88fd-cc76112cc641.html https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/housing/mahomet-mans...
- W-Stool 6y agoWow - I guess Bruce did OK! Good for him.
- vijayr02 6y agoActually, it says in the article: > Artwick owned it until 2015, when it was sold at auction for $4,000,005. It was never clear who bought the property, as it was sold to a trust. “That was by design, and I’m not allowed to say. They want their privacy,” Tabeling said.
- apricot 6y agoDad bought an Apple II when I was a kid, and the A2-FS1 flight simulator simply blew my mind. And then I discovered A2-3D1, subLOGIC's 3D graphics library, on which their flight simulator was based, which started a lifelong interest in the math behind computer graphics. https://archive.org/details/sublogic-a2-3d1-animation-package-photocopy https://archive.org/details/sublogic-a2-3d1-animation-packag...
- fsagx 6y agoTandy Color Computer 3... 1986, I think.