Flightsimulation 27 years ago...

[aeromax 10]

let's see what we do in the next 27 years.

[hurricanemk1c 195]

In the next 27 years we will have full motion flight sim, 3D vision etc!!

I'm glad that FS has come on a long way!

[UKJim 502]

so realistic (bet that never crashed with out of memory issues)

[aeromax 10]

Indeed, that's true !.

[allardjd 1,853]

...and we thought we'd died and gone to heaven.

 

John

[stu7708 244]

Oh, that brings back memories...

While I never played the FS series until I got into FSX a few years back I played my share of old time sims.

I had a very basic sim on the old Commodore 64 that I never really mastered, and that one looked even worse than your shots.

But the ones I played for many hours was Fighter Bomber (AKA Strike Aces), Gunship and the F19 stealth fighter on the old Atari 520STe. And then there's of course the old X-wing vs. Tie-fighter series....

[Gunfighter 0]

I had all the old FltSims back then even on the old ZX Spectrum with a plugin Joystick.......... Happy Days. OMG am I that Old......LOL

[aeromax 10]

Yeep, right, even also i hold the old commodore vc20 with cardridge and datasette...hohohoo...pretty speedwonder...hohoo

[ShrewsburyFC 215]

Its amazing to see how far it has come!

[allardjd 1,853]

I had an early version of Flight Simulator for the Commodore 64, published by Sublogic, before Microsoft bought it. I think it may have pre-dated the screenshots above, or was at least of that vintage. What terrain there was was just wireframe graphics and I think there were five "areas" you could fly in - all else was just flat green landscape with no features, no airports, no naviads. I think there was one ILS in each of the five areas.

 

I got rid of all of it a while ago, but kept the printed manauals for some reason I can't explain.

 

I used F-19 Stealth Fighter from MicroProse a lot and still have that package on the shelf. MicroProse was a good outfit. I just looked in the box - it's all on 5-1/4 floppies, but packed with books, maps, keyboard overlay, etc - all the things we don't get now - even though the software itself is greatly improved these days, what's in the package is generally not.

 

John

[Gunfighter 0]

I had an early version of Flight Simulator for the Commodore 64, published by Sublogic, before Microsoft bought it. I think it may have pre-dated the screenshots above, or was at least of that vintage. What terrain there was was just wireframe graphics and I think there were five "areas" you could fly in - all else was just flat green landscape with no features, no airports, no naviads. I think there was one ILS in each of the five areas.

I got rid of all of it a while ago, but kept the printed manauals for some reason I can't explain.

I used F-19 Stealth Fighter from MicroProse a lot and still have that package on the shelf. MicroProse was a good outfit. I just looked in the box - it's all on 5-1/4 floppies, but packed with books, maps, keyboard overlay, etc - all the things we don't get now - even though the software itself is greatly improved these days, what's in the package is generally not.

John

Yes I had the Sublogic Flt Sim and I still have the Maps that came with it with all the jetways and VORs on them I still use it to Navagate in the USA.

Gunfighter

[jankees 917]

I must be getting old, cos these pics look vaguely familiar...

[ddavid 149]

Our son used to have an Amiga 1000 with the Fighting Falcon game:

Can't say I rated the flight dynamics, but the AIM's were brilliant!

Cheers - Dai.

[mutley 4,498]

You really had to have a good imagination in those days. I certainly did!

[ddavid 149]

"Nuke those pyramids - and nuke 'em good!"

Cheers - Dai.

[mutley 4,498]

1990 Flight Simulators watch it here!

[aeromax 10]

Unfortunately i can not see the video, because Gema has not given the publishing rights here. Still, I think this is just such a video like the vintages above.