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I always wondered how it worked. It seems to me that with its limited hardware, it can only display ground features, not whole 3D surroundings. Am I completely

I always wondered how it worked. It seems to me that with its limited hardware, it can only display ground features, not whole 3D surroundings. Am I completely wrong? Is it something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umZYSY1fSQk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umZYSY1fSQk

doctor_eval 4y ago
"that video isn't available any more" :( it was really basic (but awesome for its time). You basically flew over a flat grid - literally a grid - so the only thing "3d" about it was that you could see this 3d grid rotating and moving about. At one edge of the grid was a 2D "mountain" which was orthogonal to the ground-grid. I found a screenshot here: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/39/85/9c/39859c5ccf2e08207f7299e1c3244b24.gif https://i.pinimg.com/originals/39/85/9c/39859c5ccf2e08207f72... If memory serves, one of the grid boxes in the top-left of that image contains the enemy base. You could dogfight against two other planes. I mean... they were single pixel planes. I think that TRS80 "graphics resolution" was 128x48 so you know. It would probably fit inside the letter O on today's hardware. Which is pretty cool when you think about it. Here's another link with lots of screenshots: http://www.trs-80.org/t80-fs1/ http://www.trs-80.org/t80-fs1/
- JieJie 4y ago
  I remember on the Apple II that I played SubLogic Flight Simulator on, there was a dogfight mode. I've been flying virtually ever since and I'm about to complete my first trip around the world in MSFS2020 in VR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvvfJ60gIf0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvvfJ60gIf0
  - doctor_eval 4y ago
    Those modern sims are really good. I actually learned to fly IRL (didn’t finish my PPL sadly - maybe one day) but I learned to land properly by spending hours and hours and hours in X-Plane on my laptop, with a proper yoke and pedals. My instructor couldn’t believe how much I had improved in just a week. I was also really good with instrument flying :)

doctor_eval 4y ago

"that video isn't available any more" :( it was really basic (but awesome for its time). You basically flew over a flat grid - literally a grid - so the only thing "3d" about it was that you could see this 3d grid rotating and moving about. At one edge of the grid was a 2D "mountain" which was orthogonal to the ground-grid. I found a screenshot here: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/39/85/9c/39859c5ccf2e08207f7299e1c3244b24.gif https://i.pinimg.com/originals/39/85/9c/39859c5ccf2e08207f72... If memory serves, one of the grid boxes in the top-left of that image contains the enemy base. You could dogfight against two other planes. I mean... they were single pixel planes. I think that TRS80 "graphics resolution" was 128x48 so you know. It would probably fit inside the letter O on today's hardware. Which is pretty cool when you think about it. Here's another link with lots of screenshots: http://www.trs-80.org/t80-fs1/ http://www.trs-80.org/t80-fs1/

JieJie 4y ago
I remember on the Apple II that I played SubLogic Flight Simulator on, there was a dogfight mode. I've been flying virtually ever since and I'm about to complete my first trip around the world in MSFS2020 in VR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvvfJ60gIf0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvvfJ60gIf0
- doctor_eval 4y ago
  Those modern sims are really good. I actually learned to fly IRL (didn’t finish my PPL sadly - maybe one day) but I learned to land properly by spending hours and hours and hours in X-Plane on my laptop, with a proper yoke and pedals. My instructor couldn’t believe how much I had improved in just a week. I was also really good with instrument flying :)