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Googling Flight Simulator: > First release: Microsoft Flight Simulator; November 1982; 40 years ago That's wild. I can't believe it's that old.
by herpderperator 4y ago
Googling Flight Simulator:
> First release: Microsoft Flight Simulator; November 1982; 40 years ago
That's wild. I can't believe it's that old.
- mcv 4y ago1982? Was that version already 3D? That's earlier than I thought.
- albuquerque 4y agoPlayed it on my 1982 zx spectrum 32k!
- jmkd 4y agoYou may be thinking of Psion's Flight Simulation game [0] on the ZX Spectrum 48K [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Simulation_(Psion_software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Simulation_(Psion_softw...
- TuringTest 4y agoI played it on the 48K. I can't believe there was a version that run on the 16K ZX81 as well!
- albuquerque 4y ago48k of course, not 32k :-)
- midasuni 4y agoRubber keys?
- albuquerque 4y agoyep (wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum)
- midasuni 4y agoI had the spectrum plus. Still 48k, but a better keyboard
- albuquerque 4y agoI'm pretty sure it was from Microsoft. I may have even the paper instructions, i'll search for them :-) Wikipedia: "FS1 Flight Simulator is a 1979 video game published by Sublogic for the Apple II. A TRS-80 version followed in 1980. FS1 Flight Simulator is a flight simulator in the cockpit of a slightly modernized Sopwith Camel.[2] FS1 is the first in a line of simulations from Sublogic which, beginning in 1982, were also sold by Microsoft as Microsoft Flight Simulator."
- drivers99 4y agoIndeed. https://youtu.be/CchRwnTorjY https://youtu.be/CchRwnTorjY subLogic flight simulator is even older (first Apple II version in 1979) https://youtu.be/uvvfJ60gIf0 https://youtu.be/uvvfJ60gIf0 Microsoft licensed it to make MS FS. Someone showed me (subLogic) Flight Simulator II, on a C-64 I think before I had a computer. I finally got a used IBM PC as my first computer (4.77 MHz 8088, CGA graphics, 20 MB hard drive) and MS FS version 3 and played the hell out of it, despite how badly it ran. When I installed it at my mom’s work on a 386 with VGA it was like a whole new game.
- ClassyJacket 4y agoIt was. The popular text adventure format at the time just doesn't work well in a flight simulator for some reason.
- terinjokes 4y ago> read instruments Your altimeter reads FL090, your compass reads 245. Airspeed is at 120 knots, pitch is 10 above the horizon. Engine is at 70% power. You hear a kitten meow on guard. > read instruments Your altimeter reads FL090, your compass reads 245. Airspeed is at 70 knots, pitch is 20 above the horizon. Engine is at 70% power. You hear a stall warning.
- mcv 4y agoThe only flight sim I remember from those days was Sopwith, a 2D side-view game where you fly a Sopwith Camel through all sorts of crazy loops. First 3D game I saw was Elite's wireframe spaceflight.
- ChoGGi 4y agoYou don't need graphics for a simulator. https://archive.org/details/msdos_747-400_Precision_Simulator_2000 https://archive.org/details/msdos_747-400_Precision_Simulato...
- M3L0NM4N 4y agoI can't believe 1982 was 40 years ago
- Sakos 4y agoThanks for that existential crisis.
- fortran77 4y agoI was a Junior in college! Programming in PL/1
- diseasedyak 4y agoI was 6 years old, 7 or 8 years away from acquiring a Commodore 64 and typing out my first code in BASIC from the back pages of a Compute! magazine... I'm an old man.
- 1letterunixname 4y agoDad foisted an Intellivision on us because he wanted it. All the cool kids had a Famicom (pre-NES).
- iso1631 4y agoFollowed swiftly by I can't believe I'm that old.
- 1letterunixname 4y agoNaughty Groucho Marx to the rescue: A man is only as old as the woman he feels. Disclaimer: I was born during the peak year of 8-track sales.
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