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Title: The first Flight Simulator you used?
Post by multiprops on May 10^th, 2012 at 1:47pm

Do you still remember wich one was it? In my case it was, as I recall "FLIGHT SIMULATOR" (just that) for Sinclair Spectrum 16K :) :)
I still remember the wire black and white graphics (despite the Spectrum was in colors), and also the HUGe dificulty to land properly (I do not remember the airplane, it was some Cessna single engine high-wing model). And I still remember how delighted and amazed I was: to have such a PERFECT flight simulator in my desk was a dream come true... :)

Title: Re: The first Flight Simulator you used?
Post by jetprop on May 10^th, 2012 at 1:57pm

The first one I used...
I tried one that my dad was using when I was about 6,it was either FS9 or FS8,then came FS8 again roughly 3-4 years ago and then the leap to FSX gold edition. 8-)

Title: Re: The first Flight Simulator you used?
Post by C on May 10^th, 2012 at 2:18pm

F15 Strike Eagle III from Microprose.
;D

Title: Re: The first Flight Simulator you used?
Post by Bud Greene on May 10^th, 2012 at 2:19pm

First one was MS Flight Sim. for Mac although I subsequently got an Apple IIe and used MS Flight Sim2, even though it was older and slower (Flight Sim for Mac came out after Flight Sim2). Ahhh, memories of my long-expired youth... :)

Title: Re: The first Flight Simulator you used?
Post by 1olehippy on May 10^th, 2012 at 2:22pm

My 1st sim was the DOS version that came with my 1st PC back in 1983. I used every upgrade since, but my heart still belongs to FS 2004. ;) :) :)

Title: Re: The first Flight Simulator you used?
Post by Xpand on May 10^th, 2012 at 4:35pm

My first FS was FS2002. I found it by accident when I was about 9 (around mid 2002) in my unlce's computer. I remember going to his house after school to play a bit of FS until my mother came from work to get me. Oh the fun times I had with the F-4U and Extra 300. I remember I never banked the aircraft because I couldn't level them after doing it! ;D I never found the instalation CDs though. A short time after I got FS2004 for myself, and kinda forgot about FS2002.

Title: Re: The first Flight Simulator you used?
Post by Webb on May 10^th, 2012 at 5:00pm

Flight Simulator II for Commodore 64

Title: Re: The first Flight Simulator you used?
Post by Groundbound1 on May 10^th, 2012 at 5:14pm

Webb wrote on May 10^th, 2012 at 5:00pm:

Flight Simulator II for Commodore 64

Same here, only on an Atari XE! :D Hi-tech stuff for it's day.

Title: Re: The first Flight Simulator you used?
Post by Fozzer on May 10^th, 2012 at 6:32pm

After my Apple 2e, Z80, and Z81...

One of many, for my 1983 Sinclair Spectrum 48K...>>>

http://gamesdbase.com/game/sinclair-zx-spectrum/combat-lynx.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunship_%28video_game%29

.....and my all-time favourite...>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercenary_%28video_game%29 which I still play, my own hacked version!

...and shall we ever forget...ELITE!... :D...!

After which I then Programmed my own games, etc, on my trusty Speccy Plus...and still do, in BASIC and Zilog Z80 Machine Code..to this very day!
http://www.spectaculator.com/

Flight unlimited II/III, Fly!, Gunship, Pro Pilot 99, and FS '98 was my first real ingress into PC the Versions of the game/sim, following my Amiga 1200.

Paul...with 8 bits of pure joy, from the past to the present!... ;D...!

Title: Re: The first Flight Simulator you used?
Post by Alonso on May 10^th, 2012 at 6:34pm

FS2004 :P

For some reason, before 2006, I had never cared about planes or flight simulation...

Title: Re: The first Flight Simulator you used?
Post by andy190 on May 10^th, 2012 at 6:38pm

CFS1 then FS2002.

Title: Re: The first Flight Simulator you used?
Post by Fozzer on May 10^th, 2012 at 6:57pm

There is no doubt that the late 1970's and early 1980's was the unique time for home computer exploration, with every bedroom throughout the world full of young, clever, enthusiastic, 8-bit computer programmers, (like me!) spending every hour of every day writing Computer code, and turning it into their own computer games, etc.

"Fozzersoft"... ;)...!

(But Bill Gates was the bloke who finally beat me to it, with "Microsoft"!)... ;D...!

A truly magic time for youngsters (and oldies!), which I wouldn't have missed for the world, courtesy of Sir Clive Sinclair, etc!... [smiley=thumbsup.gif]...!

A time that today's youngsters have missed out on... :'(...!

Paul...8-bit programmer...with a few bits left over... ;D..!

Title: Re: The first Flight Simulator you used?
Post by Rocket_Bird on May 10^th, 2012 at 7:04pm

Flight Simulator 5.1 :)

Title: Re: The first Flight Simulator you used?
Post by Mike.. on May 10^th, 2012 at 7:18pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-19_Stealth_Fighter

Then everything after that pretty much in the order it was released 8-)

Mike....Sim buff

Title: Re: The first Flight Simulator you used?
Post by bass on May 11^th, 2012 at 7:30am

Cfs1.
Then a lot of money!

Title: Re: The first Flight Simulator you used?
Post by alrot on May 11^th, 2012 at 11:52am

:D G-loc Air Sea Batlle I used to spend a lot of money in one of those machines that one insert a coin ,back in 1990

I find this game and I could run it into my PC 8-)

hey the cockpit was movable! :D

Title: Re: The first Flight Simulator you used?
Post by Blaunarwal on May 11^th, 2012 at 3:07pm

My first Flight sim was Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrimsHqRlfY

Then Falcon 2.0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pO88OZbxoA

and also the first Chopper sim
LHX Attack Chopper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC3OUrgf1Lg

I think we can be happy with FSX today :D